TEST: Start date and pick-up locations
Logistics
News! Thanks to the great weather, we’ve decided to bump up our first CSA drop offs to May 29 and May 30. (Rather than starting the first week of June). We’ll make drop offs on Wednesdays and Thursdays, every week for 20 weeks.
We have also just about finalized our drop-off locations. Please send an email to tiantianfarmwa@gmail.com with your preferred spot. If you we don’t hear from you, we’ll follow-up. They are:
On Wednesdays…
Beacon Hill, at 19th Ave S. and S. Lander St (near light rail)
Central District, at 19th and E. Alder
Vashon, on our farm
On Thursdays…
West Seattle, on 35th Ave SW, just south of the golf course
Maple Leaf, at 8th Ave NE and NE 80th St
Ballard, at Fair Isle Brewing
Look out next week for more specific drop-off instructions for your spot.
The Road to Summer
After a pretty darn organized early spring, we've reached that part of the farming season when time starts to sneak up on us. Every Monday morning, Steven and I collaborate on a checklist of tasks we hope to finish that week: Bed prep, seeding, transplanting. The harvest. Weeding. Mowing. Setting up infrastructure, such as the main lines in our irrigation system. Last fall, we failed to finish one major end-of-season job: building end walls to enclose our hoop house (we were tired). We kicked that can down the road until... last week. We are also currently tripling our farmstand in size. Inevitably, we add to the list throughout the week, as if we somehow will find the extra time to seed that cilantro. Whew. In any case, we are starting to end each week with unfinished tasks, which we will most definitely complete next week. This is the road to July and August and beyond, the path to the intensity of peak farming season.
For now, I find this pace invigorating. The farm is absolutely bursting: pea tendrils curling up their trellises, tiny globes of Hakurei turnips bulging above the soil, young sungold tomato plants happily nestled in the hoophouse (they really do look happy). Our newest transplants sometimes seem to double in size overnight. Gold finches dart and swerve and land atop our T-posts, while robins dig for worms in the freshly turned earth of our newest beds. This past week, the sun has drenched us and the whole farm in warm rays, and it feels so good to be outside, farming.
Can't wait to start sharing the fruits of our labors with you in just two weeks!
‘Til next week,
Elizabeth