05 Jun Mon 2017
Start the season this week
Greetings shareholders of Abbe Hills Farm CSA,
You are on the list to pick up your veggie share on Mondays, starting today, June 5. Pickup time is 4:30 until 6:00 pm. The farm address is 825 Abbe Hills Road, Mt. Vernon. If you think you should not be on the Monday list, please let me know. We’re easily confused around here right now.
We’ll have bok choi, radishes, and some gorgeous green garlic Bring a bag. Green garlic is garlic that cleverly escaped the digger last summer, survived the winter, and has been screaming, “Eat me! Eat me!” since March. OK, we will. It’s good chopped up on pizza, sautéed with eggs, and stuffed into a chicken. Unfortunately, we don’t have lettuce yet, which is embarrassing. I’m a little bit famous for the nice lettuce we are able to grow here, but this spring’s alternating hot and cold seems to have messed up its internal messages, and it stopped growing. Our second and third plantings look much better and should give us some lettuce in a couple more weeks, I hope.
Pickup times at the farm: We’ll be open from 4:30 until 6:00, a slightly shorter window than last year.
Parking: As always, we use the farm driveway for the entrance and the house driveway for the exit, making a one-way street around the farmstead on pickup evenings. There is parking for handicapped and elderly people on the grass near the shed, but everybody else, please keep driving and park out on the house driveway. All parking is on the right so driving can be on the left. I’ll have signs, or else you can just do what the more experienced parker in front of you does.
Here’s a generic farm driving tip: Never drive anyplace the grass has not been mowed. There are frequently big dangerous, tire-destroying things lurking in the tall plants.
Missing a week: Three options, from best to less best. 1) have a neighbor or relative come to pick up your share for you at your regular time. 2) email me on Sunday afternoon that you want to switch nights that week. I make the weekly lists on Sunday afternoons, so if you tell me too early, I’ll likely lose you. And if you tell me too late, we’ll have already harvested too much or too little on Monday morning. 3) email me no later than noon on your pickup day that you need us to bag your share for you. You can pick it up from the cooler the next morning.