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~ Sneak Peek ~
Week 8 ~ June 4-5-7
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~ A la Carte ~
Produce this week: Arugula, Rainbow Chard, Chinese Cabbage, Red Russian Kale, Vitamin Green, Dill.
Always available: our own jarred products + honey, sunflower oil, and maple syrup from other farms.
Sign up online by 12 noon on the day before your delivery day. Produce availability will vary day to day, so check back often.
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~ Markets ~
Logan Square, Morton Grove, and Botanic Garden markets start up this weekend! And we'll still have a selection of sturdy seedlings for your garden at Oak Park, Green City, and Morton Grove. Check our Event Calendar for details about where to find us.
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Questions?
Robin (in Chicago)
708-370-8017
or
Chris (farmer/owner)
608-712-1585
Check out our
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Our first farm visit!
We'll host our first CSA member farm visit of the season on Sunday, June 17th. More details will follow next week, but plan on a potluck lunch, a tour of the farm, and strawberry-picking!
Consider spending your Fathers' Day with us. If you'd like to make a mini-vacation out of it, here are some ideas to jumpstart your planning.
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As we enter into the first week of June, the we are starting to see some changes on the farm as spring gives way to summer. Our garlic is sending up scapes,
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Garlic scape
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the carrots planted way back in March are finally close to harvestable, and perhaps most exciting for us at Tomato Mountain, the first two batches of tomatoes are in the ground and starting to produce fruit. Tomatoes are still a ways away but we are seeing the very first strawberries this week.
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An early carrot
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The jury's still out on how big and how sweet the berries will be, but we hope to get some to you this week, and we'll let you be the judge. The question mark reflects that we're not sure if they'll be ready for Monday or Tuesday, but we'll do our best.
As Chris alluded to in the last newsletter, June is a very busy month for us, and this year will be much busier than normal. With the storms that have come through (heavy wind last week, heavy rain this week) we are a few days behind on our
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A wind-damaged hoop house
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last big planting push of peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. As you may or may not know, everything on the farm is planted, weeded, and harvested by hand. This gentle handling goes a long way to bring you high quality produce with a long storage life.
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Harvesting arugula
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