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Hi friends,
Happy cold and rainy summer solstice week y’all! Frost and foul weather have conspired to mean I’m here in your mailbox this morning. We were planning to take a few days off this week to go backpacking down the Selway, but by market on Saturday the forecast was looking pretty bad. Saturday night we got frost and while the majority of our plant buddies did well, more cold nights in the forecast the rest of the week meant it felt a bit too precarious to leave the farm, even in the very capable hands of our amazing propertymate Shelby. I might also note that backpacking with a toddler for two or three nights is one thing, while backpacking with a toddler for two or three nights with an active winter storm watch in effect, consistent rain and potential snow in the forecast is quite another. We’ll work up to that. In the meantime, we’re putting off our trip to next week.
Why do you care about our rained out backpacking plans, you might ask?
I’ll tell you! Despite planning to miss Tuesday market this week, we’ll now BE THERE. TOMORROW, Tuesday evening, north end Higgins by the X’s.
We’ll be all set up with veggies and herbs, 5-7pm. We’ll have lettuce heads, salad mix and spinach galore, tons of herbs, kale plus new this week, garlic scapes and salad turnips! Yum! The abundance begins!
Finally, a request - it’s been abnormally quiet this past month at Tuesday markets and all the vendors would dearly love to see more folks come out. Would you please oh please help us spread the word? Tell your friends! Tell your co-workers! Tell your dog! (note, dogs sadly can’t actually attend the market but maybe they’ll also help spread the word through their secret and joyful network of dog senses?) Hope to see y’all tomorrow!
ASK A FARMER!
No question this week so today’s newsletter is short. Have a gardening or farming question? Send it my way and I’ll do my best to answer! Can’t wait to hear from y’all.
Assuming it doesn’t frost or snow, we’ll be out into woods early next week so no newsletter. See you the following week friends, with another dispatch from the farm.