30 Mar Fri 2012
special market this week for al the greens, Symphony of the Soil screened
Good morning shareholders and friends,
Good news!!! We're having a special, unscheduled, emergency market tomorrow, March 31. It will be in Springville, 9:00 until 11:00, at the Community Center downtown. We didn't have any market scheduled for this weekend, but because of the warm weather, all the people with hoophouses have too many fresh vegetables that we've got to move!!! So, the first market of the season specifically for leaves!!!
I'll bring eggs (lots of them), green garlic, as much spinach as I can pick between now and then, leaf lettuce, arugula, stir fry kits, broccoli raab, and radishes. I know Mary from Buffalo Ridge will have much of the same, plus potatoes. I think there will be at least one baker, hopefully some meat and honey, and a few other things. It will be a smallish market, I think, but we'll have lots of the things you have been waiting for.
Most of the oats and alfalfa are planted here, plus the first crop of snow peas. The rain last night was PERFECT. I haven't been out to look around yet, but Lucky's dish is full, so it must have been a nice amount. We were becoming very dry. My brother, dad, and I will start on the potatoes this weekend. If you need a reason to get outside, come over and I'll let you help me take the mulch off the garlic so we can start cultivating the weeds out of it. WOW, things are really happening fast this spring!
There was a great new film screened in Iowa this week. I couldn't go to Ames or Cedar Falls to see it because I was growing food, but I've heard only good things. "Symphony of the Soil", http://www.symphonyofthesoil.com/. When it's released late this summer, I'll try to find a way to get it shown here, as long as I can do it without getting arrested (a few years ago, Walt Disney's attorney called me to tell me that I can't show his movies on the side of my shed to raise money for the food bank. Or else. Learned my lesson with that one.) You can listen to a "Talk of Iowa" program from March 27 with interviews of the filmmaker, Fred Kirschenmann, and Francis Thicke by clicking here http://iowapublicradio.org/news/talk-of-iowa/past-shows.html . They talked about the things I like to practice here on the farm - growing a healthy soil food web in order to grow more and better food and to improve the land, air, and water we all share. I was inspired.
Hope to see you Saturday,
Laura