May 31st Update!

Greetings everyone! It’s just over two weeks before the first box is due and I wanted to touch base and let you all know how things are going, and what to expect as we embark on this journey together. First off I need to let you all know that since my son is graduating from COCC with a nursing degree on June 15th, I will need to make other pickup arrangements for the first box. I will be home Monday 6/18 and will be available for you to come out to the farm on Monday to pick up the boxes rather than Saturday. Alternately I can waive the delivery fee for this week since I will not be there Saturday.Those that work at KVH I can bring the boxes to you at work on Monday afternoon. Second, regarding box contents for the first box, some things are not progressing along as well as I had hoped. We still have time and with good weather everything will be fine, but we may not have as much of a variety for this first box as we had planned. The radishes of course are doing great, as my grand dad used to say “you can grow radishes on a wet 2x4…” and we will certainly also have both romaine and green leaf lettuce in plenty, as well as some chives, but our Rainier cherries are being slow to ripen as are the cherry tomatoes and strawberries. If those don’t get ready by the 18th, then they will just be added to the next box and we should be on track then. So to sum up, the first box will definitely contain: Romaine lettuce Green leaf lettuce Easter Blend radishes (pink, purple, white and red) Chives If things progress as hoped it will also contain: Rhubarb Strawberries Cherry tomatoes Rainier cherries. As for quantities, we will do our best to have 10-14 servings of fruits and veggies per person in each box, but it might just be more lettuce and radishes the first go round. I assure you that we have been working hard and in the end you will all receive an abundance of produce throughout the summer, but the weather has been weird and things just aren’t growing as fast as we would like. We hope you will understand. -Farmer Tim