We have been quite busy on the farm this week. Uncovering the cucurbit family, cukes, zucchini, summer squash melons….we keep them covered with remay (white cloth) to protect them for as long as we can from the cucumber beetle – get them big and fat (the plants that is) and once they are about to […]
Journal Entry June 21, 2010
SO WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE FARM THIS WEEK?Happy Summer Solstice! Lots of photosynthesis is happening for sure!! The produce is going “gangbusters” as they say, after some recent rains and all of this hot sunny weather. The peas are growing plump (we’ll definitely have them next week), the beans are growing fast, and the broccoli […]
Blue Heron Farm Volume V Journal I – 2010
SO WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE FARM THIS WEEK?Welcome back to our returning members and a big welcome to our new members! We are so excited and honored to be growing food for nearly families 50 families – including yours. We have been very busy this spring and early summer planting, weeding, irrigating (lots of drip […]