Farm News – July 28, 2025

Hello All, It rained! A bit too much all at once, but we take what we can get. We are back in business again – the business of putting seeds in the ground. The sweet corn, carrots, and our fall brassica transplants received a good soaking, and we get a respite from constantly moving irrigation around the fields. There was some wind, which broke a few of our pepper plants, but nothing too terrible. I have one more round of beans and carrots to sow and it is time to start planting greens like arugula and spinach again for the fall crop.

My workers got sneaky again last week and slipped some melons in some of the shares. The fruit began to ripen prolifically, and melons have a short shelf-life. It was a matter of use ‘em or lose ‘em. We also have some small yellow rind watermelons ripening in abundance, so those who received Korean melons last week will likely get some of these in the share. The ground cherries have started to fall off the vine – which is what they do when they are ripe, and how they got their name. For the CSA neophytes among you, these are relatives of the tomatillo, with a similar paper husk that you must slip them from. They have a unique flavor and keep well unrefrigerated.

The share will be:  Rainbow carrots, lettuce, eggplant, peppers, beans, garlic, sweet corn fingerling potatoes, tomatoes, basil, either cherry tomatoes or ground cherries and watermelon or another type of melon (cantaloupe, galia, honeydew, etc.) Premium shares will also include bok choi.

There will be sunflowers this week. We are still waiting on local fruit. Fruit shares will resume next week. The mushroom share will be Lion’s Mane.

Enjoy! Farmer John