8th CSA week

Pardon the late post for the Wednesday group...
Thanks to all who joined us for the Farm Tour and Art Farm. We've been busy preparing for the first "fall" plantings by preparing the soil with Leaf Gro and tilling under the straw mulch in the old garlic patch. Its hard to belive we are already getting ready for those fall greens but its true!
This week we are harvesting:
Green Beans
Cherry Tomatoes
Red Tomatoes (big beef and early girl)
Peppers
Zukes
Cukes
Summer Squash
Garlic
Potatoes
and the Wednesday group got chard but the Saturday group will have to wait for the patch to regenerate. WW

Farm Tour - ARTFARM

Join us on Saturday, July 22nd from 10am to 3pm for the 17th Annual Farm Tour and Harvest Sale.

ARTFARM is a multimedia celebration of arts in nature for people of all ages- music, dance, puppetry, visual arts, environmental sculpture/instillations and more organized by Mary Ann Ross and Ric Wagner of Concerts In The Country.

Additionally, the University of Marylands Solar Decathlon Team will be on hand to answer questions about our Solar House and the upcoming 2007 Solar Decathlon sponsored by DOE.

We will be selling in-season vegetables from our garden. Board members, staff and volunteers will be answering questions about our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program, our service learning activities and our employment program for adults with developmental disabilities. We are also excited about our construction project which is currently in the permitting phase. Our new straw bale building will use far less energy to heat and cool the building than your average home or office being built today.

There are 12 other farms on the tour that you can visit too.For more info on the County Wide tour- where there is a brochure with descriptions and location maps for each of the farms on the tour.

Please leave your companion animals at home unless you have a certified therapy dog.

DIRECTIONS to Red Wiggler at Ovid Hazen Wells Park

7th CSA week

We are busy playing a bit of catch up after all the rain- over 12 inches in one week. But our CSA will be enjoying the bounty of the rains in the form of Summer Squash, Zukes and Cukes!
This week:
First picking of Green Beans
Fresh Garlic
Lots of Yellow Crook Neck Squash
Lots of Zucchini- Adrienne will have a zucchini bread recipe for you
Cucumbers
Chard
Potatoes
Chard
Carrots
Peppers
Kohlrabi
(there is still a lot of basil for you to pick in the PYO and with our garlic as fresh as it gets now is the time for pesto!)

Next week our fields and growers take a breather as we spruce up the farm for the Annual Farm Tour and Art Farm event on Saturday July 22nd. There will be no CSA harvests but we hope you all will be able to come out for the event which is always a unique "happening" thanks to Concerts in the Country!
Woody

6th CSA harvest, a wedding and "Artfarm"

We all took a long week end to celebrate the 4th as well as Shannon Varleys marriage to BJ Miller on Monday July 3rd in Pittsburg PA! It was a beutiful, loving wedding set on an idealic farm complete with lots of kids and pleanty of dancing in a restored bank barn from the mid 1800s. Congratulations Shannon, BJ and Mave!

We just harvested fresh garlic and early potatos for you and you can expect plenty of summer squash as well. The early basil from transplant is ready for picking in the PYO. You can also count on getting some cooking greens as well.
I'll update this later on with a more complete list after we finish up the harvest but I thought you'd want to know about the new arrivals listed above.
Later today....here is the rest of the harvest:
Radishes
spring onions
chard
turnips
peppers
cucumbers
kohlrabi.

And in the PYO (pick your own) - dill, statice, cilantro, thyme, oregano, batchelor's buttons, snap dragons, daisies, sweet peas, gomphrena,basil and straw flowers.
And in the planter boxes - Sage, mint, majoram, lemon balm, nasturshims, chives, marigolds, lovage.

Please note that during the week of July 17th we will be preparing for our annual farm tour known as "Artfarm". We will not be harvesting for the CSA that week. We hope you will be able to come enjoy the free event here on the farm Jul;y 22nd from 10 am til 3pm. There will be music, site specific performance art and who knows what else. stay tuned for more info- Woody