Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Spinach, Spicy Mix, Thyme, Green Onions, Bok Choy, Arugula and Maybe Radish

How did that first share taste?
Can you feel the difference eating fresh food makes! I can. I ate so many salads last week and I feel lighter​​ and quicker because of it. Now that the heat has arrived, I crave salads. To make them more substantial I add a hard boiled egg, toasted walnuts, feta cheese and olives. YUM!!

The garden is growing great.
The veggies will take off like crazy now that it has warmed up and the days are so long. We are now harvesting 5 mornings a week and spending the afternoons weeding and tending to required projects such as transplanting, spreading row cover and continued seeding. Summer is here, bring on the heat!

What's with the "maybe" in the crop list?
We try to make the crop list as accurate as possible. I write the newsletter on Monday afternoons. Many crops are harvested and processed Tuesday mornings after I leave the office. (respectively Wednesday and Thursdays, for the Thursday share folks) When a crop just starts to ripen there is not always enough to feed 120 families, so we send it to just one pick up site. Gratefully, Jed is a master record keeper! He writes down who received what veggies and then works to spread the bounty of each crop evenly as the weeks progress.
This is also why you may see items at the market before you see them in your share. For example tomatoes! When we begin to harvest from all 3 greenhouses we may "only" get 10 lbs. total the first few harvests. This can look like a lot on a market table! But it would be less then one tomato per person at only one distribution point! Not enough for anyone to enjoy. We bring these early "teaser" harvests to the markets so they are not wasted.
​By the way...the tomatoes look great this year! We should all be enjoying them by the end of July. 

Some words about payment for meat, cheese, eggs and butter.
We know many of you want to move to all digital transactions. This is challenging for us. Cash and checks are the easiest form of payment for our volunteers to accept...simply because they can verify them. Venmo is tough because it is all done thru one person's account, and there is no way for our site hosts to confirm payment has been received, because they don't have my phone! We are also not in a position to give everyone access to our account to run credit cards. Please understand these digital conveniences cost small businesses fees, and they take so much time for us to track and figure out how to navigate with volunteers, and volunteer substitutes! As much as we love our helpers...we are not ready to give them access to our bank accounts!! We understand many of you don't even carry cash anymore. So we will be able to accept Venmo if it is your only option. To do so, you will have to fill out a paper log when you make a purchase, I will later have to validate the payment came through. Sometimes these time saving devices really just take me more time! Thank you for understanding.

We are happy to report we have revamped our volunteer program.
If you (or someone you know!) is curious about high altitude gardening becoming a garden helper may be just right. We are only asking folks to commit to 1 morning a week for one month, that's 20-25 hours a month! It feels really good to have volunteers back on the farm, we missed them!! Lunch is provided! Follow the link below to check it out!

Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Spinach, Baby Kale, Pea Shoots, Green Onion, Lovage and Chives

Welcome! We are so thrilled to begin this season of veggie distribution. We hope the food we grow nourishes you. We hope this food creates meals to share with your loved ones. We hope your body remembers what real flavor is after a long winter! And our favorite...We hope this food gives you the energy to make the world a better place.
I ate my first plate of Cosmic Mix on Monday at lunch. Dang, I missed that stuff! It is tender, sweet and tastes alive! This spinach crop is gorgeous and plentiful.  Spinach thrives in cool wet weather...and the Tetons provide! Most years by the time we start the CSA the chives are too far gone, but they are perfect right now. The flowers are edible and the purple adds such a fun splash of color to dishes. The green onions, planted last fall, are such a treat in the spring. And baby kale, pea shoots and lovage! What a great first share!
This is always a really exciting week on the farm. We love seeing you all again and meeting new CSA members. We love having fresh things to eat again too. Jed and I are remembering all the tasks involved in getting a share out the door. Our employees are being trained on the fly. There is no real warm up to the first share. We just have to jump in and be ready to navigate all this week has to offer. Please reach out if you need to communicate about anything!
I will send out a weekly newsletter every morning of your share pick up day. This is my medium for getting important farm info to you, sharing recipes and rambling about farm life. If you are not sure what to do with a particular veggie or need inspiration, follow the link below to our recipe bank. Please send us any recipes you find that you want to share, I'll add them! Below the link are some ideas about how I am using the veggies at the farm each week and some recipes I like to make for our family.
Currently I am out of storage space for egg cartons! Please resist the temptation to bring them unless they have our label on them. I will rotate eggs around to each delivery site as we have them. The chickens are laying well right now but they slow down as the summer progresses.

WE NEED SOME SITE HOSTS! If you know any friendly folks who want to work with the best customers ever, send them our way. Site host get a half a share in exchange for helping at our distribution points. We are looking for one on Thursdays at the farm in Victor and one in downtown Jackson also on Thursdays.
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We are happy to report we have revamped our volunteer program! If you (or someone you know!) is curious about high altitude gardening becoming a garden helper may be just right. We are only asking folks to commit to 1 morning a week for one month, that's 20-25 hours a month! It feels really good to have volunteers back on the farm, we missed them!! Lunch is provided! Follow the link below to check it out!