Many changes have taken place on the farm since last summer. A drive way loop to help with congestion as well as new flower beds. We hope you enjoy these improvements.
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| A new flower bed at the entrance to the back gardens. |
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| Another new flower bed with room for more shade flowers to be used in the bouquets. |
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| A cart full of feverfew in front of multicolored buckets of flowers. |
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| Levi and Ethan sporting their sun hats. |
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| Each season Shady Maple Farm CSA donates to two school auctions to help with fundraising. The two schools split a harvest box for the summer season. |
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| Bryan and his mom, aka Grams, have just finished sorting the colorful beets. Bryan is starting to put them into each harvest box. |
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| Part of today's lunch is a garden fresh salad Anna has made for us. Colorful nasturtiums are pretty and edible. Cucumbers and snap peas atop lettuce and spinach. |
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| Pasta salad with tomatoes, asparagus and pesto dressing. |
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| Rhubarb dessert. This looks really good. |
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| Green kohlrabi is washed and ready for the boxes. |
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| Snap peas are completely edible. These are used sliced up and put in salads and other dishes. |
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| This is all that is left of Lisa's rhubarb dessert. So delicious. |
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| Swiss Chard and 4 varieties of kale are hydrating in cold water. |
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| Bundled asparagus is also in cold water. |
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| Ethan and his mom, Anna carry drained bundles of kale to the boxes. |
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| Ethan models with an Armenian cucumber. The first one to be ready in the greenhouse. |
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| Beautiful flower bouquets, all grown right here on Shady Maple Farm. |
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| Flowers in water await being chosen to go home. |
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| Lisa is putting her final touches on her beautiful bouquets. Notice the swags of flower seed packets in the background. |
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| The first picking of hydrangeas. |
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| Roses with variegated colors. |
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| Purple and white lupine along with orange dahlias (already!) and orange roses. |
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| Blue catmint, apricot foxglove and blue balloon flowers. A wonderful combination. |
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| Bright blue delphinium and old fashioned cluster pink roses. One of my favorite combinations. |
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| Blue catmint, red sweet William in with ruffled roses with pink margins. |
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| Light blue delphiniums, dark blue pincushion flower, orange bi-color roses and a couple Tangerine Tango dahlias. |
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| Today's harvest box. |
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| Emma having fun while passing out cooling popsicles. |
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| Levi enjoys a greenhouse tomato. Love his grin behind the tomato. |
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| A new flower box topped off with a new hanging flower pot. |
See you next time on the blog.
