Week 10

Forecast: Highs in the low to mid 70s. 60% chance of rain on Wednesday.

As you know, we've been crazy busy on the farm this week, with CSA harvests beginning and planting season still underway. It's hard to believe it's June and Week 10 already!

On Monday, Chelsea & Shelby will facilitate our exploration of diet and nutrition and Becca will help us figure out how to evaluate and locate good food in wherever you find yourselves. To that end, I'll offer a website: http://www.localharvest.org/. If you search your zipcode, it will show you listed CSAs, farmer's markets, and farms in your area. Of course, you still have to figure out which ones you want to support. Also on Monday, we'll need a little time to do course wrap-up and evaluations.

What we do on the farm this week will depend largely on the weather. It sounds like there is a good chance of rain on Monday night and again on Wednesday, which could make things too soggy to plant. In fact, we do need the rain, but I'm hoping that the showers will time themselves so that we can go ahead and put in some tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers while you are here. I'm also eager to show you how much the crops you planted have grown in the past week--the peas look fantastic and potatoes are starting to poke through the soil. And, we'll do a final check on your vermicomposting operations and inoculate an outdoor vermicompost pile with worms from your bins.

See you soon!