Week 5

Lots of berries this week.

Roses, dahlias and many berries. So pretty!

Week 4 It's berry season

Today's harvest box is loaded with berries.

Our "pick of the day".

Beautiful flowers include these crown like pink monarda or bee balm that can also become a tea.

Dark blue delphinium, white frothy goat's beard, yellow centered feverfew, a touch of purple scabiosa, white yarrow along with yellow rudbeckia make a stunning bouquet.

Beautiful combinations.

Light blue delphinium with pink cluster roses and the tall crown like monarda. Looks like a lily is waiting to open, too.

The large creamy dahlia on the right is the much coveted
Cafe Au Lait.

The dark purple flower on the lower right is a new addition for us this year, an anemone. 

This bouquet includes lilies getting ready to open, pink cluster roses, Cafe Au Lait dahlias, boxwood for greenery and dark pink Jupiter's Beard on the top left and at the bottom of the photo.

We have added to our hydrangea selections here at the farm. The tall feather-like pink flower is agastache. Bright pink and dark pink are Sweet William.

Fern fronds added in with blue Veronica, graceful pink lupine, pink cluster roses, hydrangeas meld well with the Sweet William. 

An up close look at rudbeckia. So many rings of different colors.

Loganberries are ready! They do not become dark like our blackberry varieties. It was crossed between a raspberry and a blackberry in the late 1800s. The berries ripen at different times throughout its season (and are very tender) and therefore is not usually found on farms where berries are machine harvested. It is wonderful for backyard gardens where people tend to nibble a few now and a few later.

While picking berries Terry shows how tall a leek from last year has grown. Its flower is taller than she is!

Sylvanberries just waiting to be picked.

The Sylvan harvest may last for a couple Tuesdays depending on the weather, too hot or too rainy, may shorten it.

Oh wow, look at that lily! The soft green is the blooms of lady's mantle.

Anna brought out lunch and look at this dessert! Angel food cake rolled up with whipped cream and wonderful fresh berries. Yum!

At the top right are Anna's fixings for iced mochas. For lunch we have a pasta salad with farm fresh touches included as well as a green salad with a few peas tossed in. Not many peas these year.

Some people mix the two salads together! 

Ahhh, the first slice into dessert.

Pink astible kind of goes with my shirt. 

It appears our new hydrangea enjoy their location.

 

Some flowers are lighter than others.

After the last box was picked up Louise, Anna and Levi brought out Honor who is expecting a foal later this summer. She is living in the barn at the farm now. A gentle pony for sure.

Lisa and I relocated our gladiola patch to a spot on the farm that won't be as wet during the winter (we hope). We have landscape fabric between the rows to help fight our prevalent weeds. Each row also has drip irrigation. We think there are about 1,000 glads planted here. We lost track!

See you next time on the blog.
Lorrie

Week 3 A beautiful spring day

Week 3 box contents and two bouquets.

Lemon grass and asparagus across the top.

 I start off each Tuesday taking photos of Lisa's flowers so there will be flower pictures for each week. I don't always get photos of the produce, but man, her flowers!

Here are today's flower photos.

A Nigella seed pod.

Today's list of goodies.

Getting ready to burn holes into a length of landscape fabric. The wind causes problems so the rock collection grows!

Some of the holes have been burned. This piece of landscape fabric has a wider space for the walkway.

Louise decorating herself with flowers.

Grams organizing the lavender for this week.

Anna and her youngest harvesting parsley.

And then the sun became too bright.

Artichokes on the right, on the left are peas.

Today's box contents contain cherries and blueberries.

It's an herb and greens time of year. Left to right: sage, kale, mint, lavender, beet (greens), sorrel, coriander, lettuce and green onions.

Guess what this is???

Lettuce soaking in the cool water.

The melon patch is being planted through olive green plastic with drip tape underneath. They produce more when green plastic mulch is used.

Florencio uses a clam gun to make holes through the plastic. He has to watch out for the drip tape underneath. Laying the plastic with the drip tape underneath with our machinery and then planting manually is all very labor intensive. Melons love heat and this helps us produce watermelon and cantaloupe here in Salem. He is taking a well deserved break.

See you next time on the blog.
Lorrie