Morning Song Farm News

This week's Large Garden N Grove CSA Box. Three herbs: cilantro, small sprig of rosemary and curly parsley. And the only unusual veggie this week is our beautiful dandelions in the bottom left of the image above. The first of the zutano avocados of the season, in large shares only this week. Yep, the hiatus of avocados have come to an end. With 500+ trees, and several varieties, (mostly Hass) we have avocados in our CSA boxes 9-10 months out of the year. By the time August-September rolls around and we're out of the fruit, many of our much appreciated CSA members are telling us they're OVER guacamole.

Tiny quantity of our first harvest of heirloom artichokes, so we put them in Tuesday Large shares only. Hopefully next week we'll do Wednesday only. We're enthusiastic about these thorny gems: nutty, complex flavors, but  wow do they have sharp points. The kinder, gentler ones at the grocery store, unfortunately have taste and pointiness both reduced.

Change Order? Click Here As our little CSA has grown, the complexities of keep it all straight have grown as well. We have 50 drop points, mostly weekly, although there are three that are only biweekly. There are those that receive boxes weekly, but add-ons biweekly. (We don't offer vice versa) There's Large Boxes, Small Boxes, and Salad Boxes, both with and without eggs.  There's vacation skips for weekly subscribers, much appreciated, Please-Shift-Our-Box to the homeless shelter for biweekly vacationers (and some generous weekly subscribers' donations), credit card number changes, cancellations at the end of commitments, new starts, delayed starts, restarts, and lots of on-going, uncommitted trials starting and stopping. As the roster-builder-change-order taker here, besides the lead farmer, I spend a full day each week combing through my email accounts in search of Change Order Requests...and there's no way I can ever go on a real vacation, because this task ...