Got some much needed rain this morning! Thankfully not enough to flood anything. Looks like it will be drying up here shortly … just in time to harvest for you!
Memorial Day Sale tomorrow at the Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers Market and Peculiar Farmers’ & Artisans’ Market. Any 4-pack of flowers, 4-pack of veggie plants or pot of herbs just $1 each!! I’m also putting together some more large specialty flower planters and pots of asparagus ferns – offered for special prices tomorrow only.
We’ll also have cabbage, zucchini, cucumbers, asparagus (may be the last harvest), tomatoes, fresh herbs, eggs and the last of our grass-finished ground beef for the spring. Come join us early … it’s going to be a HOT day!
The FDA recently announced a voluntary recall of organic spinach with the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella following a random test conducted on a finished package of spinach by USDA. The voluntary recall includes some bagged salads sold under the following brands, some of which may have been distributed in Missouri: River Ranch, Farm Stand, Hy-Vee, Marketside, Shurfresh, The Farmer’s Market, Cross Valley, Fresh n Easy, Promark, and Sysco.
To learn more about this particular recall, check out the FDA announcement at http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm305203.htm or the Associated Press article via MSNBC at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47518439/ns/health-food_safety/#.T70tL8Vgncs.
Just finished sorting the harvest for tomorrow and it’s looking pretty much the same as last week. That’s not a bad thing, considering it’s only May and we have such a plethora of summer veggies!
Shares this week include (amount is according to share size):
Individual shares- asparagus, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes and fresh herbs
Partial shares – all of the above, plus green onions.
Full shares – all of the above, plus cabbage.
For sale this week at the market stands include: asparagus, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, cabbage, fresh herbs, vegetable plants, flowers, herbs, eggs and ground beef.
So what’s going on at the farm? We recently had a group of preschoolers and their parents from Beautiful Savior Lutheran in Lee’s Summit come take a tour and they had a blast. The kids enjoyed climbing on the tractors, chasing the chickens and picking tomatoes while their parents asked questions about everything. We’re planning an Open House for everyone sometime in June, so you’ll all get a chance to do the same!
We’ve been busy trying to run some irrigation to the different fields with water coming from the ponds, creek and cistern. It’s a bit of trial and error but we hope this will allow us to have a much more consistent harvest throughout the summer months.
That’s all for now. See you at the markets!
~Karin