Two Feet in the Dirt

After a couple weeks of overly warm weather, we’ve had some spring-like cool, cloudy days recently and now have some very cold nights in store. But the warm weather definitely had an impact. We’ve moved to harvesting from outside beds (as opposed to those in the hoop house) about a week earlier than usual. We also switched out our cold-weather row cover on the kale, arugula, radishes, and other brassica crops to warm-weather bug netting, which we normally don’t use until summer, although we’ve subsequently had to recover everything in row cover for tonight’s cold, windy forecast! The spring crop pests are also making an entrance earlier than expected, with the cabbage butterflies, whose larvae feast on kale, cabbage, etc., already much more prevalent than we usually see at this time of year. Fortunately, all of those crops are still (just barely) small enough to stay under netting for a little while longer. In more exciting news, the strawberries have begun flowering as you can see above, so we’ll be looking forward to these tasty spring treats next month!

This will be our last week of online orders in Jefferson County, WV before we start the Shepherdstown Farmers Market. And our Jefferson County CSA is near capacity, so sign up soon if you’re interested. More information on our CSA can be found here. We will continue to be selling on-site at the Burke Market. This week’s harvest list is below!

Thank you so much for your support!

Farmers Katie & Mike

Harvest List:

• Lettuce salad mix
• Arugula
• Hearty winter mix
• Lettuce
• Radishes
• Green Garlic
• Spinach
• Baby hakurei turnips
• Maybe: Baby bok choi