Thank you for choosing Mehaffey Farm! We know that there are, increasingly, (and thankfully!) more farms offering CSAs locally, so we are are delighted that you chose us to be the place you come for your fresh vegetables this summer.

Our new greenhouse is giving us a great start on the season! Our family enjoyed fresh lettuce and spinach through the winter months, all planted at the end of last season. In January, we began putting in new crops. As a result, you'll be having fresh and delicious veggies much earlier! The sweet delicious carrots, full-grown lettuce heads, and tasty scallions will appear in your share over the coming weeks.

Once everything in the greenhouse could survive outdoors, we hooked ropes to it and easily pulled it over to the next garden plot with our tractor. It went more smoothly than we had even expected! A whole crop of early tomatoes is growing in there now, in bloom and huge for this time of year! Our mouths are watering for real tomatoes! (Not like those pallid-tasting ones we always complain about that we get at the supermarket!)

Now that we have a full year of CSA experience under our belts everything seems to be falling neatly into place. All of the gardens are planted and growing by the minute! In April the peas and potatoes got planted, and we've kept things rolling from there: Our awesome team (and some help from a large and dedicated group of friends) have created new gardens, added organic compost, put up new fences, gates and trellises, perfected our irrigation system and planted crops. Thousands of small plants are now lined up in orderly rows: tomatoes, broccoli and cauliflower, peppers, eggplants, cabbages, Brussels sprouts, celery, and the first two plantings of string beans are coming up. Three crops of peas are climbing the netting, and thousands of onions are in the ground. When the last cucumber and squash seeds went into the ground this past week, we breathed a sigh of relief. We think the place looks great and we are excited to begin giving you vegetables that were picked that same morning. That's the beauty of CSA!

There's always more to do here than there are hours in a day, things that usually need doing all at the same time, so we understand how very busy your lives are too! CSA means fresh local produce when you don't have time to grow your own. Some of you however, may want to get involved. We would love that! We always welcome volunteers, whether for an hour of weeding, picking, or maybe you have special talents to offer in some other area. Ask us!

We also appreciate your feedback, so don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything we can do better