First 2014 CSA Delivery Heralded By Gandalf's Messenger

The Art Farm

 Hello Moon Bears,

May brought in a verdance from luxurious weather. Mild and Sunny! We are set for our first CSA deliveries this week.  

Our first full share box will include:

• Tennis Ball Lettuce
• Romaine Head Lettuce
• Small Turnips (Great mashed with carrots)
• Golden Zucchini (Roasted is good)
• Onions
• Potatoes (Purple and Red and Gold)
• Siberian Kale (Super tender and sweet)
• Young Garlic

Next Week we'll have broccoli and maybe baby carrots.

Every year I spend May fretting over the possibility that there will not be enough variety or quantity coming from the garden. Then in June the abundance begins to spill over. Even with the inevitable losses from bugs and fungi, there is enough and More than enough. It's a good lesson about gratitude and the giving nature of the Earth.

This week we had a special visitor in the onion patch: a Polyphemus (IO) Moth. See the photo below. A large male with antennae that work as pheromone detectors... i.e. his nose. I have to admit he was a little intimidating at first with a six inch wingspan.  But he was only interested in one thing: finding a female. He was a magical creature. The same such moth was the messenger animal between Gandalf and Gwaihir in the Lord of the Rings.

A few other photos from the garden:

 See You Soon,
Rick