Busy as bees

After a great first week for the CSA, we've been busy the last few days. Saturday was our first trip to the Hingham Farmers Market this year and it was great to be back in the thick of the festive atmosphere there. We were also busy in the field prepping beds and planting--we're still scrambling to keep up with the big plant-out that happens in late May and early June. Summer squash, zucchini, and cucumbers are now happily thriving in Turkey Hill Field next to our garlic crop. The crew was transplanting them with our tractor-driven Waterwheel transplanter and I shot a quick video to show you how it works.

Monday saw a lot of clean-up and landscape work at our new CSA home, the Yellow House. Almost 20 Trustees staff members from different properties all over the South Shore and South Coast showed up to help scrape, paint, weed, and open up the landscaping at the front of the house to make the main entrance more visible and accessible. It's amazing what a flash mob of skilled people to can do in just a day! It's still a work in progress, but we made some big steps with so many helping hands. 

This week's CSA share is another bounty of salads and salad toppers: lettuce, radishes, spinach, mizuna (a Japanese mustard green that's a little mellower than last week's curly mustards), kale (the tender Red Russian variety that's great for smoothies and sautees), a greenhouse cucumber, green garlic, arugula, salad mix, and Pick Your Own chives. 

Enjoy your veggies!