Abbe Hills Farm CSA

Greetings shareholders,

This week, we have green beans, zukes and summer squash, cucumbers, cabbage, broccoli, onions, potatoes, leeks, kale, chard, and herbs. 

The first sweet corn is nearly ready to start picking, but we have to wait until the official sweet-corn-decider (my dad) says it's time.  We might start Monday morning, Thursday for sure.  Either way, I planted wayyyy toooo much, more than you can eat in a week, and more than we can harvest in a day.  So, I'll take orders and have extra sweet corn for sale Saturday.  If you want corn for the freezer, this would be a good time to get it because it might be the nicest corn we have this season.  The variety is "Bodacious", which I think is the best one we have, and the weeds are not too terrible, so the ears should be a nice size, although the ears are always a little small with this variety.  The logistics are going to be complicated because I need to be selling raffle tickets at Sauerkraut Days Saturday morning, but we'll figure out something.   Sweet corn won't wait, especially when daytime temps are above 80 degrees.  Let me know when you come for your veggies if you think you'll want some Saturday.

If it stays warm, we should have "Incredible" sweet corn next week.  I think there could be a few green sweet peppers, too. 

We did find one red tomato last week.  It was rotten on the bottom, but it's something!

We had a nice open house Sunday night.  About 30 people from all over Iowa came by to tour the farm, hoophouse, and gardens. 

This is the last week that I'll have tickets for the Southeast Linn Community Center raffle.   Please buy a few. 

See you this week,

Laura