Summer lovin'

This sunflower's for you, Johanna!
photo: Sophie Shillue

Our summer veggies are loving these long hot days we've been having the last two weeks! The eggplant crop is truly bumptuous and the tomatoes are finally ripening faster than the groundhog mafia can eat them. The flower patch is a riot of color and we're at a full sprint trying to keep on top of our squash and cucumber harvests. Yup, it's definitely summer.

On top of all the harvesting and weeding this week, we are seeding beets and carrots (a touch late!) and, at long last, we're moving the greenhouse. It's going from its old home next to the red barn up to the top of the hill next to main field. We can finally put and an end to much of our non-stop trips up and down the hill! Water and power will follow in the weeks to come. A big, HUGE Weir River Farm shout out to Johanna Ross for her incredibly generous gift that paid for this significant undertaking! Johanna is one of the farm's original and proudest benefactors - buying our first belted Galloway cows back when we started our herd. Thank you Johanna!!!

Farm crew Sophie's been taking some amazing pictures out in the field this past week--enjoy the eye candy!

Mmmm looks like a BLT waiting to happen.
photo: Sophie Shillue

In your share this week: red slicing and heirloom tomatoes, more fresh onions, green peppers, eggplant, squash and cucumbers, PYO cherry tomatoes and PYO flowers.

Enjoy your veggies!

Green pepper hiding under the canopy of leaves.
photo: Sophie Shillue

Fiery calendula in front and pink cosmos floating in the background.
photo: Sophie Shillue

Beautiful Italian eggplants!
photo: Sophie Shillue