Week #1 Tuesday, June 12 - Saturday, June 16th- 2007 Downloadable Word .doc for printing

In your bag:
Spinach
Lettuce (red leaf, romaine)
Scallions, Garlic scapes*
French breakfast radishes
Red Russian Kale
Broccoli Raab
*Garlic scapes are the seed stalk of garlic plant. They are a tasty treat and something we have come to look forward to. Cut them in one inch pieces, sauté in olive oil until tender. They can be added to salads, stir-fries, anything where you’d like a mild garlic flavor.
Sugar Snap Peas (Saturday's delivery)

Coming Soon
Next week we’ll have more lettuce, spinach, scallions and probably radishes. Garlic scapes will also be ready. On the horizon we have Chinese cabbage, beets and sugar snap peas. I bet the peas will be ready next week!

Spring Hill’s New Web Site Design
Spring Hill member, Jess Fischer, has been hard at work designing our new web site. Check it out! Our goal has been to make it more useful to our members so we’d love to hear your feedback. Jess has been working on organizing recipes in a useful fashion and we’ll continue to add to these. The newsletter will be posted each week along with a farm picture or two. We also have a bulletin board with a number of member postings. Send us yours and we’ll put it up. We’ll be adding book and article recommendations so if you have something to add here, again let us know. We also have a number of useful links if you’re interested in learning more about Community Supported Agriculture and sustainable agriculture in general.

Farm News
Welcome everyone! It’s always exciting preparing for the first delivery. Once we got past the dry spell – which lasted most of May- things have gone pretty well. We did have the irrigation equipment out earlier than ever and it was bringing back bad memories from last year. Thankfully, we were missed by bad storms and just received nice rainfall the last couple of weeks.

We had three very nice work days the end of May and early June with plenty of greenhouse planting, weeding (of course) transplanting, tending the perennial flower bed, mulching raspberries, washing tubs, various other odds and ends, and, as always, good eating. Thanks to everyone who came to lend a hand.

We can’t begin a season without trying a few new things. This year, we’re trying a few new varieties of tomatoes including, German Red Strawberry, recommended by member, Dick Poppele. We also have a row of Red Zebra and two rows of Sungold cherry tomatoes, a very special treat.

We’ve also got a rather interesting experiment going on in the field. We’re trying a “no-till” vegetable cropping method with our Halloween pumpkins. We took a patch or rye that had been planted last fall and just as it was about to flower, we rolled it down, hopefully crimping the stems as we did so to keep it from popping back up. The next day we planted pumpkins into the rye which will now serve as a mulch – at least that’s the theory. No doubt there are things we need to learn to make it effective, but we’re pretty excited about the possibilities!

Next Week’s Harvesters
Tuesday, June 19th - Hermann & Susan Weinlick, Pat Turner & Kate Hage, Robin Schow,
Kathleen & Brian Devore
Saturday, June 23rd – Katy Podolinsky & Larry Schmidt, Enrico Williams & Lori Thomas,
Ann & Alan Koehler, Pat Juola Haga