The month of May has seen one son's college graduation and another son's wedding here at this little farm....the wedding is over and the vegetables are calling!
The garden is not much worse for wear, considering we've done little in the past week or more...but the weeds are already asserting themselves, trying to get the best of us. I'm pulling weeds and hoeing and Will is tilling between rows - we both know it's only a matter of time; a couple of months from now, we'll just hand the garden over to the weeds and concede. But for now the garden still belongs to us. The produce is charging ahead, doing what it always does, and on its own schedule.
Our PLAN was to begin our new CSA adventure this coming weekend (June 6). Thankfully, our CSA members happily chipped in a couple of weeks ago and helped with early harvesting and maintenance, and understood that the schedule had bumped itself up a week or two. This will be the first weekend that we will pick and pack for 20 families...kind of intimidating, but it looks like it will work! Thanks to Will who, scientist and horticultural maniac that he is, plotted the whole shebang out months ago, trying to make sure everything happened with some kind of order. It is kind of like herding cats, but fenced-in cats...in other words, there is a perimeter of sorts.
It's amazing that only three weeks ago, folks constructed this cucumber fence and the little plants weren't even THINKING about climbing it!
vegetables wait for no one...
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