August 5th, 2006, 9:08 am
Dear blueberrie lovers,
I have ordered your bluberries and will pick them up this Monday afternoon. For those of you who pick up on Tuesdays your berries may be picked up with your share. Although the berries will be stored in the cooler Fridays shareholders may want to pick there berries up sooner than Friday in order to get them in the freezer before they begin to get mushy. I’ll let you work that out. I will have a list there for you to check your name off and it will also show the amount that you ordered.
Thats all for now. Tom
July 27th, 2006, 7:59 pm
Dear members
Highland Blueberries of Stockton Springs is offering organic blueberries for $2.70 per pound in 5 or 10 pound boxes. They will deliver them here and you could pick them up with your share. If you are interested please let me know by Wednesday August 2 if you would like some and just how much you would like. I will tabulate the order and call it in to Highland. The berries will be delivered for the August 8 pick-up.
July 13th, 2006, 9:46 am
We are now in the third week of our season and I thought it might be a good time to touch base with you. Despite the extreme early wettness and the fact that we started a week late, I, and I hope you, have been pleased with these first markets. There have been some casualties; the earliest peas have contracted a “blight” thus yielding less than expected and some of the tomatoes are still marking time looking somewhat pallid at this late date. » read more…
June 22nd, 2006, 9:05 pm
Dear CSA Member,
We are now experiencing the longest days of the year. The birds are beginning their morning songs as early as 3:30am. The eastern sky is beginning to brighten by four. In the evening it is the western sky that continues to emanate light as late as 8:30pm. During these long days the birds, the insects, the trees, the plants and all the critters are each responding to the sun’s long traverse across the sky. Each quickening their pace, trying to complete that part of their life cycle that ensures their continuity. But here’s a thought for you; By the time you receive this letter, the sun will already have begun its journey south and the length of our day will already be declining. Summers in Maine are short, intense and oh so sweet.
June 15th, 2006, 8:10 pm
Since my last e-mail (I hope that you all received it), I have been paying particular attention to those crops in the garden which, in the past, made up the bag that members would receive on week one. In that last e-mail I expressed some doubt that these crops would be ready by the third week in June, which has traditionally been the first pick-up date. Well, I’m sorry to say that these crops, head lettuce, spinach, scallions, radish, and greens are still at least a week behind their normal maturation dates. » read more…
June 11th, 2006, 1:09 pm
I know that many of you must be wondering when the first CSA pick-up will be and some of you may be concerned about the effects this weather may be having on our work. So, I’m sending this email out in order to update you on how we are weathering the weather and to let you know when you might expect to get your first greens, radishes, scallions, spinach, etc…
The gardens and fields at Hope’s Edge farm are experiencing déja vu. » read more…
