SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

Tonight I drove over to Columbia to be on KOPN community radio stations "Farm & Fiddle" program. They were talking about CSA's. There were 3 other CSA's represented, Pierpont Farm, Happy Hollow Farm & Danjo Farm & then us. We got to tell about our operations and what we grew and all that good stuff! Was fun and interesting, and hopefully we will all get some new customers from it that want to try out the idea of getting a box of locally grown produce once a week. What's nice about CSA's is that they are all a little bit different and they are growing in popularity. You don't have to stand in lines to get those first strawberries, or tomatoes, or peaches, etc. You don't have to worry about getting to market right at starting time to be able to get those most sought after items when they first start appearing at market. (Unless your farmer has a crop failure or something, or doesn't grow that particular item.) You will be able to pick up your box of produce and get a little bit of everything that's in season that week!

This morning I dug up chocolate mint and peppermint growing in our garden and potted it to sell at market. Then we put row cover over the kohlrabi and broccoli plants in the front garden as something has been eating on them!!!!! Probably that "pesky" little bunny rabbit that I saw last week in the front yard! I saw 3 out back by the hoop houses this morning, but the cabbage, broccoli & radicchio out there are fine. They are probably just helping themselves to all the lettuce in the hoop houses! The strawberries are really looking good, they are really loaded! Just hope that when they ripen up it's a lot drier so they don't mold and rot! There are lots of little apricots on the apricot tree...maybe this will be the year to finally have apricots?!!! Oh the joys of farming!!