Two Feet in the Dirt

Wow, it’s hard to believe after over a year of working to find and set up our farm that our first farmers market is finally here! It’s been a crazy winter, with both extreme cold and unusually warm weather and this fluctuation has continued into April. In fact, there is snow falling right now! Over the weekend, temperatures plummeted to 19 degrees overnight, vastly colder than it had gotten in weeks. We had seen the cold temperatures forecast, so got out on Saturday to make sure all of the outside beds were fully covered in thick row cover. Inside the hoop house, even with the plants covered not just by the hoop house itself but by row cover as well, temperatures still got below freezing and caused some minor damage on some of the larger crops. It feels counterintuitive that the bigger, more mature plants would be the ones more susceptible to freeze damage, but because younger plants are so much closer to the soil, which acts to hold in heat and therefore help stabilize temperatures overnight, plants are going to experience a bigger temperatures dip the higher they have grown off of the ground.

Even with some spring slow-ups and set-backs, we are still set to have a god harvest for this Saturday’s market. Look for a full table of greens as well as radishes. We’ll even have some transplants for you to start in your own garden at home! Check out our product list below for this week’s full selection. We can’t wait to see you at the Burke Farmers Market this Saturday from 8am-noon at 5671 Roberts Pkwy!

– Farmers Katie & Mike

This week at the market:

        Arugula

        Spinach

        Spring Mix

        Baby Kale

        Radishes

        Head Lettuce

        Spring vegetable seedlings