Morning Song Farm News

Carl the Terror stands sentry on a rock overlooking the farm. I'm happy to report that the goats are now moving on from what once was my landscaping to address the weeds adjacent to their living quarters. They are free ranged, but don't venture more than an acre or so from their barn and our farmhouse. Carl travels the furthest and enjoys perching himself on his rock to survey the farm below.  Lance's little bottle fed goat, Boo Boo has discovered Golf Cart Surfing, and now likes to jump in the cart as we take off to balance in the back. She has also learned to ride shotgun with Lance in his truck and flops herself down in the road when she hears him coming up the drive so he's forced to get out of his truck and pick her up. Chef Adrianna has perfected her soft goat cheese recipe, and we're all taking turns milking, which makes running the hobby dairy portion of the farm a whole lot easier.

Our amazing chickens are slowly increasing their egg production, and this week we actually were able to fill all existing orders! Yeah! We aren't taking any new orders until our younger flock is in production; 5 months from now or so. Our baby chicks are flourishing and are quite eager to join the adult flock. We regularly have escapees when one of us opens their little rabbit cage to feed and change their water dishes. It's quite a job to catch the little rasquels, but it's a necessity because they won't survive outside yet. At left, daughter Tessa introduces herself to a new resident. And below, Couscou The Guard Llama peers into his chicken's barn as we teach our new arrivals how to drink and peck for food.

Lots of our drop points have zero empty boxes for our driver to pick up each week. So it's time again to remind everyone to please return your reusable carton; dispose of it only if it's gotten dirty. We don't want to be filling our landfills up with cartons that can easily be resued time and again! So please, return your box when you pick up your fresh share each week; or transfer your produce into your own bags and leave the empty carton behind. Thanks!

We're switching our July 4th deliveries to July 3rd. That's only a week away, next Wednesday. So please mark your calendars, if you normally pick up on Wednesdays, we're shifting all deliveries to Tuesday in one marathan harvest/delivery day so that our crew and you, our loyal subscribers can one and all focus on celebrating the day.

So I’m nervous about posting our blackberries on the harvest ticket, I’m really surprised how slow they’re ripening, and despite our pre-dawn heroic efforts, we’re barely able to find enough to put in our large shares. I’m pretty sure we’ll be in blackberry heaven next week for all. Tomatoes are here! Yeah! What’s up with the non existent apricot shares? Yup, got ripped off AGAIN. So we care for our apricot trees, water, prune, feed and weed all year. And at the last minute, every year for 4 years now, they’re stolen. Every last ripe one. We have ONE tree of unripened fruit left. I’ll tell you, it’s beyond discouraging, because in a way, our property rights are confiscated if we can’t grow and care for a crop without pretty much certain 100% theft.   Whomever picks, does it at night and can’t tell between ripe and unripe, so they strip pick (which means they pick every last one and sort later.) (And since all those apricots were destined to go into our CSA boxes, each a...