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Spring Share #1

Happy 1st Spring Share!  We are thrilled to be starting a week earlier than expected this season and pleased with the delicious produce going home with members tonight.  It is a Spring bounty of treats.

Pac Choi-A juicy Spring Variety called Shiro.  My favorite of all Pac Choi and only grows well in the cool temperatures of Spring and late Fall.

Salad Leaf Lettuce Assortment-Hoop house grown and double rinsed.  A colorful mix of leafy greens.

Leaf Lettuce crop ready to be harvested.

Leaf Lettuce after harvest. It will regrow for a 2nd and maybe 3rd harvest.  There’s those green onions in the foreground too that we will be eating this week.

Leaf lettuce harvest ready to be transported to the washing station.  Future tomato garden in the background.

Mild Asian Greens Mix- This assortment can be enjoyed fresh or braised.  Eat as a fresh salad mix or combine with other fresh green offerings this week for a fancy deluxe and beautiful salad.  This Asia Greens mix contains an assortment of mild mustards, kales, assorted brassicas, and mizuna.

Scott double rinsing the Asian Greens at the washing station.

Spinach-Beautiful Spinach.  A mix of 2 varieties.  Space and Red Kitten.  The Spinach selections this week were planted last Fall in the hoop house and wintered over for early Spring Harvest. And it is a bounty!  Wintered over Spinach has wonderful flavor and juicy thick leaves as it grows slowly in the cool temperatures of Spring.  Next week we will start harvesting off our 1st early Spring seeding  in the hoop house.  Enjoy the Spinach harvest raw for fresh eating or saute/braise and add to sauces, eggs and other warm dishes.

Spinach in the first rinse tub.

Spinning out the Spinach and then laying it out to air dry before packaging.

Maeve with the Spinach bounty.

Radishes-A early wonder called D’Avignon-know as French Breakfast.  A mild traditional radish from the south of France.

The radish patch.

Tokyo Bekana-That lime green beauty in your share this week.  An Asian Green.  Tastes like a fluffy Chinese Cabbage.  This too can be enjoyed fresh in salads or sauted.

Green Onions-A nice bunch with mild flavor.  Use the white base and green stalks.  We planted these late Fall in the hoop house as an experiment to see how they would winter over for Spring Share.  A success!

Maeve helped harvest the Onions.

And felt pretty cool about it…..

Cilantro-Grown in the warmth of the greenhouse as a Spring Treat.

Daffodils-A flower bouquet to celebrate the start of our season…..enjoy on your table this evening with your delicious dinner of fresh produce.

Arranging the daffodils.

All shares are packed this week in our FoxLine green totes……Please return next week with 2nd pick up for reuse with future shares.

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK.

head lettuce, round radishes, mizuna mix, arugula, pea shoots, a different variety pac choi, fingers crossed our favorite!!! japanese white salad turnips (they are almost ready), more spinach, a cool baby beet top/swiss chard salad mix that is beautiful, chives

Our life in the garden has been fun and busy….

Scott is thrilled that he has all the plastic mulch set and irrigation down.  This is the earliest in Spring he has been able to get into our clay soil gardens.

Scott’s 1st pass in tilling the garden.

Maeve of course had to help.

Scott and I  planted all 300 pounds of seed potatoes by hand in just under 4 hours last week AND could walk the next day standing up right.  I was worried as we have not had time to ease into the physical side of gardening after our restful winter…..

I was able to have a bit of fun too this last week and put my other cap on for a few hours….  I was asked to do the florals for a beautiful wedding.

Working on a pretty bridal bouquet

Fun succulent boutonniere.

All the onions, shallots and leeks will go in this week.  Another crunched over fussy job but well worth it.  It will take us a few days to get this big job completed.

Another huge carrot bed is going in.  This is the year of the carrot at FoxLine!  We are going to dedicate ourselves to carrots and carrots and more carrots….

For those of you waiting for Maeve’s Cards the 2nd run is here. Maeve will have her cards for sale with Spring Share Pick up this afternoon. $4 each/4 styles are available.

Enjoy the week!