This week’s harvest: lettuce, baby kale, arugula, chard, garlic scapes, kohlrabi, radish, basil, u-pick strawberries (only a little snack in the field so there are enough for all), don’t forget your bag! Pick-up 2-6:30pm.

June is a tough month on our farm. With the threat of the last frost behind us we are forced to plant everything as quickly as possible so that we beat the first frost in the fall. Meanwhile, there are a million other things that need our attention: weeding, staking the tomatoes and cucumbers, watering, harvesting, succession sowing, fixing irrigation leaks, and the list goes on. I think of the following quote often during the month of June when the chore list seems overwhelming, from one of my favorite books of all time, “The Dirty Life” by Kristin Kimball:

“‎A farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only the things that must be done now and things that can be done later. The threat the farm has got on you, the one that keeps you running from can until can’t, is this: do it now, or some living thing will wilt or suffer or die. Its blackmail, really.”

Though the workload is immense this time of year, there’s no greater feeling than witnessing the progress your hardwork brings over the course of the season. Please enjoy these fruits of our labor and know that it has been grown with passion for what we do. As usual, a slide show and a recipe below.

Linley, Peter, Reid, Charlie, Tim, John