Two Feet in the Dirt

We’ve been lucky the last couple of years. We’ve had hail storms throughout the county and some that have even seemed to skip directly over us, hitting locations on either side but bypassing us, but yesterday we were finally the epicenter. Around 7pm, as I was reading to our son before bed, a huge storm blew through, knocking down limbs and trees and power lines and dropping large hail for several minutes. We headed out as soon as we could to look at the damage. The main victims seem to have been those plants with broad leaves. The tomatoes and carrots, with their abundance of small leaves, are showing little discernible damage. The chard, eggplant, squash, and cucumber leaves are all peppered with holes and tears. It would seem that something like chard, which we harvest for the leaves, would be the worse loss, but in fact, because it regrows continually, we will simply be able to remove the damaged outer leaves and let the smaller inner ones regrow and will maybe be set back a week or so in our harvest. We are more concerned about plants like the eggplant, which will ideally be in the ground for many months still. Jagged holes in the leaves can be perfect entry points for disease pathogens, so it will really be a wait-and-see situation moving forward. 

This week’s harvest list, shown below, will be somewhat tentative as we wait to see which crops are still harvestable after the storm. Fortunately, we are out of the season where the majority of our harvest is dominated by leafy greens and it seems like a lot of the harvestable portions of crops like eggplant, beans, squash, and cucumbers are largely undamaged (fingers crossed!)

The store will be open on Thursday from noon until midnight. Thank you as always for your support!

Farmers Katie & Mike

• Harvest List:

  • (This list is somewhat tentative as we wait to see what remains harvestable this week after a severe hail storm.)
• Garlic scapes
• Lettuce salad mix
• Arugula
• Kale
• Spring Onions
• Kohlrabi
• Rainbow Chard
• Carrots
• Cabbage
• Beets
• Snap peas
• Zucchini/Summer squash
• Cucumbers
• Beans
• Basil
• Fresh Garlic
• Potatoes
• Eggplant