In the fields, we continue to harvest a bumper crop of squash. New this week will be dill, and cilantro returns. The baby Cornish Cross (for meat) chicks are growing fast and we'll be getting another hundred in about a week.  Please sign up at the farmstand to reserve yours. We're not taking a deposit for these and the birds are open to non-CSA members, too.

 

Many customers are wondering why there is not lettuce right now.  Well, when the weather gets hot, lettuce wants to go to seed. In fact, lettuce is nothing more than a tender leaf that forms a seed pod as soon as possible. Once a stress like temperatures over 90 degrees comes, lettuce plants send out a hormone into the leaves that make them very bitter tasting, so that animals don't eat the plant while it prepares to shoot it's seed stalk up. Because of the many days over 90 degrees...lettuce likes it around 60, we've had to disc under several thousand heads of lettuce. Don't despair, the next planting of lettuce should be ready in a couple weeks and there's some mesclun almost sized up. Meanwhile, try some of our other greens for a salad, like shredded raw cabbage and minced cilantro with a little lime and salt - a recipe we learned from a CSA member from Columbia.