First off, I love offering a CSA box for folks that want that no fuss guaranteed delivery of fresh veg. I will probably offer a CSA box again, in the future. But! For the 2020 season, I’m not going to offer a monthly box.
There will still be lots of vegetables for sale! I might put together weekly boxes! Salad subscriptions! I’m going to try all sorts of things. I’m also going to be digging deeper, and I want to spend 2020 planting perennial plants. We will enjoy the fruits of this labor in the coming years. Becky and I want to get more fruit bearing plants established, and more medicinal plants.
All these goals have us so excited for this year! It’s going to take a lot of work and a lot of learning. We have our Ford 8N tractor to get familiar with and learn how it can help in the big plans. We have some infrastructure to build out so we can handle more of this good food in a a graceful way. Some of the infrastructure will be so we can welcome more of you out to the farm. Big herb dryers, increased parking, more covered storage spaces for equipment. I’ll share all the details as we go along this year.
Our newest venture is a greenhouse space, near the farm, and unheated. We are renting from a farm neighbor. It will allow me to grow an order of magnitude more of the vegetable starts I need. It was a serious bottle neck last year. I had plantings drown or get eaten, and I couldn’t replant because my transplant starting areas were full already. We start March 1st with that fun! The earliest of the seeds will like the cool spring greenhouse. The onions and leeks, they will do just fine with our frosty nights and sunny days.
Early leeks and chives in a tray.
In addition to more vegetable starts, we are going to start lots of herbs and flowers and such for you! For garden additions, patio pots or windowsills, we will have some lovely plant babies for you to take home and love.
I hope you’ll stick around and see what we have to offer this year! It’s going to be great.