Category: Newsletters 2011

  In your box: Broccoli or kohlrabi Cucumber Eggplant Kale, "Red Russian" Salad mix Sweet corn! Sweet onion Zucchini or extra cucumbers 　   Check out some pictures of the farm taken by our friend Molly Otte, a professional photographer at http://paperlemonblog.com/ We also made the front page of our local Watertown paper, Carver County News. … Continue reading Week 7 Newsletter

  In your box: Beans or eggplant or raspberries Carrots Cucumber Dill Garlic Head Lettuce Scallions or sweet onion Turnips (white) Zucchini or broccoli This week marks the most delightful transition from spring crops to the bounty of summer. While we miss the hearty greens of cooler weather, we’re excited to begin harvesting more of … Continue reading Week 6 Newsletter

  In your box: Basil Beets Cucumber or zucchini or beans/peas or kohlrabi Kale, red Russian Mizuna Radishes (red) Salad mix Turnips (white) 　   Special thanks to our intern, Jeremy "Naptime" Benson for writing our newsletter story this week:   After the third day of heat indexes above 105 degrees, Red locked himself in … Continue reading Week 5 Newsletter

  In your box: Arugula Cilantro Cucumber or zucchini Kale, red Russian Salad mix Scallions (green onions) Raspberries or cauliflower or kohlrabi Turnips (white) As we watch the temperature skyrocket this weekend and the following week, coupled with a corresponding rise in our urge to nap and consequential fall of puddles of sweat from our … Continue reading Week 4 Newsletter

 In your box:   Beets Dill Garlic scapes Mustard greens Parsley Radishes (red) Salad mix Strawberries Turnips (white) We must begin this newsletter with the most decidedly unhappy news: preliminary reports from our strawberry patch indicate that the end is near for these beloved morsels. Just as strawberry production reached its high point and threatened … Continue reading Week 3

In your box: Garlic scapes Kale, Red Russian Mizuna Radishes Salad mix Scallions (green onions) Strawberries Tat soi  Even if it were not for my new "no-weather-related-complaint" pledge, I wouldn’t have too much to complain about this week. Following the streak of April-type weather last week, we had a whole week of sunshine and steadily … Continue reading Week 2 Newsletter

 June 24th or 28th  In your box:  Arugula, mustard, and mesclun mix Bok Choy Garlic scapes Kale, Red Russian Radishes Rhubarb Strawberries  Welcome to our first week of produce delivery! We are so excited to be harvesting the first veggies from our garden. We are truly grateful to have you as a member this year, … Continue reading Week 1 Newsletter

Greetings all, I've had a couple of inquiries about our CSA start date, and I realized I haven't been in touch lately.  I suppose I've been waiting for good news, and we finally have some.  This has been perhaps the worst spring weather imaginable, short of natural disasters.  After one of Minnesota's top 5 snowiest … Continue reading CSA Spring Update