Wow!  What a great 4th harvest!  Here you see Aimee and Gabriel holding a full share box… totally over-flowing.  Things are really starting to grow like crazy and we’re happy to be providing you with more food.  Tracy & I were thinking about it last night, and we are quite sure our CSA members got a deal on that box! Add that up at your local market…

And as Tracy said in the newsletter, “I dare ya to eat that all before next Weds!”

Our third harvest for our CSA was a nice one!  A good variety and bigger quantities. We’re looking forward to the summer crops when they start producing.  The beans, squash, tomatoes and various other plants are growing nicely.

I’d also like to point out that I’ve added a Harvest Totals page to our site.  Each week I’ll be adding what and how much we’ve added to the full share boxes.

Last Thursday the weather forecast was calling for hail and we scrambled to try to cover everything with row cover in hopes of protecting the plants. The hail never came. Sunday I was driving up Boulder Canyon on my way back to my cabin in Eldora and it started to hail. More of the slushball type of hail, but I was a bit concerned. Got home and heard Fort Collins was getting hit by heavy rain and hail, and then heard about tornados. I checked in with Tracy and she said we did get some small hail, but everything in the garden was okay. Phew!

Later that evening I heard that Happy Heart CSA in Fort Collins got a beating with 3 inches of hail. Dennis posted it on his Facebook page and didn’t know the extent of the damage at that time… other than plants had been shredded or smashed down. It was really wonderful to see the supportive response from his CSA members who were also on Facebook. So many folks expressing how happy they were to be supporting his CSA, for better or worse, and many offering to lend a helping hand in whatever way they could. That is the true spirit of the CSA model!

Sending good wishes to Dennis & crew, as well as any other farms who got crop damage from the hail…

Thanks to our working share members, and our regular share members for a fine start to our CSA! Here are a few shots of our harvest, getting boxes ready, and some of our CSA members at pick up time. It was great to see everyone, and to meet those of you who we had yet to meet. Thanks for your support, and we look forward to bigger and better harvests as the season progresses!

Today will be the first harvest day for our CSA! We plan to include the following in your first box:

Radishes
Arugula
Collards
“Rouge” Lettuce
Mixes sauté greens (Spinach, Chard, Rapini, turnip greens)
Basil tops

Check back later tonight or Thursday for harvest photos!