Week 3 Colorful lettuce, fried green tomatoes for lunch!

Today's fresh celery and lettuce.

An unknown dahlia variety is blooming first.

Another one is starting to open.

Rosemary, one of today's herbs.

Colorful Swiss chard.

Angie has a soft bodied spittle bug crawling on her fingertips. Usually we see their evidence, which looks like a mass of foam in the v of a plant's stem and leaves.

Today's pasta salad with fresh veggies and kalamata olives.

Fried green tomatoes. Yum!

Dark chocolate no bake cookies. Delicious.

Lisa and Anna finishing up lunch with a cartful of chard in the background.

Lemon balm being bundled.

One of my favorite pink colored flowers from Lisa's garden to the farm's garden.

Honeysuckle from our Dad's hometown of Jewell, Oregon. Hummingbirds love it.

Many different colors of columbine. We grew these from seed here at the farm. Hummingbirds also love the tubular shape of columbine.

A pretty peony.

A colorful peony that blooms and blooms and blooms.

Sweet William which we also started from seed here on the farm. It is a biennial which means it grows foliage its first year and then flowers its second year. It has been reseeding so it appears as if it is a perennial.

A stunning bouquet of pink cluster roses, white Veronica, purple Canterbury bells, pink foxglove, and a white pin cushion flower.

This pin cushion flower is gorgeous. I just had to get a little closer.

Bryan and Grams sort and bundle Swiss chard.

Bundles of rhubarb and asparagus await their boxes. They have been chilling in cool water so are drip drying on the cart.

One large purple asparagus spear. Sometimes affectionately referred to as an asparagus steak.

4 varieties of kale. So many colors and textures.

Today's harvest box.

Today's reminder board.

Today's list of items.

Our flower pots with the 4 maple leaves design that Dad had on the farm's business cards back in the day.  Lisa designed and sewed the quilted wall hanging. The four leaves represent Mom and Dad's 4 children.  Pretty sweet, right?

The other side of the doors to the entrance to the harvest boxes. Love the pots Lisa planted from the plants we started from seed here on the farm.

Dark purple lupine, soft gray Lamb's Ear, lovely pink hydrangea.

Striking purple cat mint. If a plant has a square stem it is in the mint family.

Goat's beard. So delicate, yet sturdy.

Box 5 is ready to head home.

This sign was from when we had our roadside fruit stand in the 60s and 70s.

4 rows of melons planted through olive green plastic mulch. They will be watered through the drip tape that is under the plastic. About 350 watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew plants.

6 rows of zinnias next to the melon patch. A wide range of colors. I am excited for when they all bloom.


That's all for this week. See you next time on the blog.

Lorrie