Summer Shares to Begin, Planting Update
Summer Share Pick-ups Begin
Monday, June 2 and Thursday, June 5
2:00-6:30 PM both days
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Order weekly Trent's Bread and Does' Leap goat cheese here.
We'll have a few extras of each for sale each week.
We are still looking for a local egg supplier.
Maple Wind Farm will have meat available for purchase this summer. Details coming soon.
This Week at the Farm
Typical of the first full week of May, we planted our potatoes and started putting out the first of our cut flowers, as well as setting out more broccoli, head lettuce, baby lettuce, and herbs. The tomatoes we planted in our greenhouses last week are establishing nicely, and our other greenhouses are nearly ready to receive cucumbers and peppers in the next week or so. Spring is off to a great start at ICF!
We usually start with the snapdragons and other hardy flowers at the beginning of the month, and then add the warmer season zinnias, sunflowers, and others as spring advances. While spring temperatures have been a little cool this year, the flower transplants have not slowed down, so we are getting ready to plant most of them in the field next week or the following. The flowers are moving to the Middle Field behind the Kid's Garden this year, so keep an eye out as you gaze west across the fields.
Potatoes are our second crop planted out at Full Moon Farm in Hinesburg, following closely on the heels of the acres of onions we transplanted last week. Like onions, potatoes require a fair amount of staging, between cutting up seed potatoes, trucking the 3000 pounds of seed out to Hinesburg along with about half that much organic fertilizer, and getting all of that into and through the planter. In addition to the new location, for the first time we buried drip lines at planting. Water for irrigation isn't as abundant in most locations as it is in the Intervale, so reducing our water use with drip irrigation will help us conserve water use if the summer takes a drier turn.
We are looking forward to the warmer and drier forecast for next week, which will give us a chance to dispatch some tiny weeds, plant out our cucumbers, and generally move warmth-loving summer crops along.
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We are looking forward to seeing you and starting our 36th year of growing organic food for you.