Greetings from the farm! We hope this winter has treated you well, and you are eagerly anticipating the upcoming season—we sure are!

The seed order is placed, and as we await the arrival of seed packets, we are reminded of how amazing it is that a few of pounds of seeds are transformed into literally tons and tons of food. In this year’s seed order, we have a few items we are really excited about. After years of gentle nudging we are finally moving into salad mix production—spurred on by a dismal lettuce year in 2012, we are reducing the amount of head lettuce we plant and increasing the amount of salad mix we grow. We are hoping that salad mix will be a bit more forgiving of the erratic weather conditions we seem to be experiencing on an increasingly frequent basis. We are also excited to introduce sweet potatoes to our shares. While typically thought of as a southern crop, there are a few varieties that do fine in warm years in the north. We will be planting Beauregard, which has a dark red-orange skin with moist, sweet, orange flesh.

In no small way, these two new crops are representative of the type of adjustments that will be required during times of climate change. It is becoming abundantly clear that building resiliency into our operation will be important for future sustainability.

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