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04/16/2013
Another winter gone by—and half of spring with it! Even with all the rain, it feels like we’ve at least had sun in equal measure, and while we’re still waiting as I write this for a string of dry days that will get us in for our first field planting, all in all, it feels blessedly normal outside so far.
We’re pounding stakes in the cabbage seed fields and harvesting the last plantings of our over-wintered cauliflower (Available at the Bellingham and Skagit Co-ops!). As soon as we get a dry spell we’ll be in planting peas, radish, turnip, lettuce, kales, chard, potatoes, and strawberries.
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It is not too late to sign up for our 2013 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farmshare program! Click on the “CSA Information” button to the right, at the top of the page, and follow the link there (or right here!) to our “printable enrollment form” for all the particulars on share sizes, options, and pickup times and locations. It is just that easy! Feel free to call us too with your questions at: 360.466.3977.
If you’re out by La Conner (for the tulips, or any other reason) keep an eye out for our farmstand opening! We’ll be sprucing it up for the season here in the next couple weeks, and after a couple days of dusting and painting, we’ll have all the local spring bounty we can lay our hands on in there for your culinary endeavors!
From all of us at Hedlin Farms, enjoy the spring!
As I write this, the sun and the rains are engaged in an epic struggle for control of the heavens. ·While the sun may be holding its own up above, here on earth the rains still have control of the board.
Despite the persistent precip, we have taken good advantage of every planting window that’s presented itself in the last month, and here at the cusp of June we find ourselves nearly caught up with our plantings.
It’s been a good spring to be growing in a greenhouse. ·The lettuce we planted in the crop tunnels back in March can be found on our shelves in sweet, crisp abundance. ·Our tomatoes and peppers went into the crop tunnel right on schedule and are taking every advantage of their fortunate circumstances.
While my Cinco de Mayo forecast for ripe tomatoes turned out to be a touch optimistic (though not without precedent), if you chance in to the stand this weekend, you may be lucky enough to find a pint or two of the first cherry tomatoes of the season, and even the occasional heirloom. ·Expect a merciful return to tomato abundance by mid-June.
Even outside there are signs of life. ·We have a fine little stand of spinach from our first succession that will be ready in the next week or so. ·The bloom on the strawberries is as thick as I’ve ever seen it, and the first of those blooms have ?transformed? themselves, under the bees’ vigorous ministrations, into tart, close lipped promises of a sweet, lush, June.
Our Farmers Markets are ramping up for the season, and in addition to our La Conner farmstand, you’ll be able to find us at the following markets weekly through most of October.
Mount Vernon [www.mountvernonfarmersmarket.org] – Saturday, 9-1
Downtown Mount Vernon at Gates & Main
Sammamish [www.sammamishfarmersmarket.org] – Wednesday, 4-8
801 228th Ave SE (Between City Hall & the Library)
Bellevue [www.bellevuefarmersmarket.org] — Thursday 3-7, Saturday 10-3
Thursday – Saturday (Runs until Thanksgiving)
First Presbyterian Church Washington Square
1717 Bellevue Way NE 10610 NE 8th St.
Mercer Island [www.mifarmersmarket.org] – Sunday 10-3
Mercerdale Park (Between 77th & 78th on SE 32nd)
There are still shares available for our 2011 CSA Program at all locations. ·Sign up today and check vegetable shopping off your list for the next five months
Your chardmonger (in about three weeks),
Kai Ottes
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