May 25, 2009 Share 1
Welcome to the HOG! We hope you’ll enjoy eating with us this season. Questions about how this works? Check out our member handbook which will we provided to you at the member meeting. If you didn’t get a copy, ask for one at your first pickup. This newsletter will keep you up to date on what’s happening at the farm, what’s in your share , and some ideas about how to eat it. Look to our website for an expanding recipe section, storage tips, etc. Please bring your own bags to the pickups. We are no longer providing plastic bags at our pickups! This is normal for those of you who pickup at the farm, but if you pickup in Setauket or Bayshore, this is new! We now have scales at our delivery sites, so please bring your own bags, and weigh accurately! A canvas beach bag or two plastic grocery bags usually does the job. We will have canvas HOG logo bags for sale at the pickups, so buy one now to hold your veggies all season! You can also bring your kitchen vegetable scraps to compost at the farm.
Whats Happening At the Farm
We are ready and eager to welcome you all to our season of growing and eating together. Welcome back to all of our tried and tested members and welcome to all of our new members. We farmers have been hard at work these past months nurturing seedlings, working the soil, awakening engines from their winter slumber, and myriad other tasks necessary to grow food for our 250 member families.
A few nuts and bolts…work hours begin this week! Our regular hours are Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 9-4pm. No need to call ahead, just show up and find a farmer. We are always at the farm for these hours, so if you can’t find someone, keep looking! Also, we will continue to be a plastic bag free farm-please bring your own bags, or buy a canvas HOG tote bag to bring those veggies home!
This year we have some new members of our farm crew. Joel and Heather are participating in our apprentice farmer training program. Sean, Jill, Bryan , and Steve aren’t ready to be tilled under yet and are still the core of our work team. Adam, an apprentice from 2007 and 2008 has returned as an assistant manager. Young Brian is also back again and is hard at work developing a diverse and well-stocked medicinal herb garden. And Shane, an enthusiastic volunteer from last season, is back from his winter travels through California to help out!
Every year mother nature delivers new challenges in unexpected forms. So far we have experienced an unusually cool and rainy May, so our field crops are a little behing the greenhouse greens. Hopefully the weather will even out and the field crops will catch up quickly! The farm crew is super excited to face this summers challenge and taste the fruits of the victories that come from lessons learned and the benevolence of our plant, animal, and elemental friends.
-farmer Jill
In Season Now
Salad Mix
Spinach
Arugula
Chives
Mint
On The Way
Lettuce
Chard
Kale
Pea Greens
Strawberries
Pick Your Own
Pick your own items are available for you to harvest at any time, as long as it’s not raining. Look for the signs marking the beds!
Chives
Mint
