This Week’s Share
Garlic Scallions
Beets
Lettuce Heads
Arugula & “Spicy” Mix
Radishes
Turnips
3 Seedlings
These seedling’s will come in 2 inch plastic pots, we are able to reuse them! Please return them in the coming weeks for us next season.
Tips for your first week
Where to find the CSA pick-up at each location:
We will be found in our same area’s as before but for those joining the CSA here are some tips to make the first time easy for us to find.
Clagett Farm
We ask that you enter from Old Marlboro Pike entrance, and during CSA time’s our gates will be open for you to follow our big blue signs up to the CSA-pick-up and Farm Store.
Davidsonville
We will be located in the outdoor pavilion to the right as you approach, and you will find parking in the rear of the building.
Annapolis
Continue straight back past the front parking lot to go towards the parking area found underneath the building. We will be found taking advantage of the covered area there in the front 2 corner spots. Feel free to park along the loop.
What to bring:
When you come to grab your share, to reduce the need for single use bags, we do encourage the use of reusable totes, produce bags, or even a spare box that was destined for recycles can have one more stop as a veggie mode-of-transport.
Getting food straight from the farm and buying local has more benefits than just our growing practices. We simply do not need to package the food for weeks of storage and transport, we give it straight to our community, freshly harvested!
Other Info:
13 week shareholder’s please note you can use your credits when ever you would like over this 26 week harvest period.
No need to alternate, or start the first week. Just note you will only be able to use 1 credit at a time (2 credits are possible upon request)
26 week shareholder’s please note you may double up whenever you may like over the 26 week season, with a max of 2 credits each week.
Farm Updates
We are absolutely thrilled to get started, and so are many of our favorite crops!
We have missed you all and are eager to meet new shareholders this year. If you haven’t heard, we are planting more rows to make room for another 30 shares this season, and we are almost there! If you know someone who may be interested in joining, please send them our way.
Our season started in January, once we caught our breath and visited family for the holidays in December. It was certainly a bit different with our new Winter CSA in the mix, but our first season was a huge success! It integrated really well with tasks like crop planning, seed and supply ordering, organic certification, and kicking off seeding with our onions!
You may notice some other projects we slid into the mix as well, such as finishing up with our third and final high tunnel, adding a new fence, and trading some pasture space for veggie crops. And just to show off, we are polishing up some really cool wash station bits to help with water drainage, and a new root sprayer.
As the weather began to warm earlier this year and “go times” were approaching, we had certainly been feeling on our toes, as we were given limited windows to prepare and plant our fields. Since the early wet months made fieldwork nearly impossible, we then had not seen a drop of rain for what was almost three weeks after getting quite a bit in the ground. Putting pressure on the need to shift to laying out irrigation to get those baby crops a drink while also keeping on with the current seeding and planting needs.
But with a team like this, we yet again banded together with the new overwhelming to-dos at hand, and we pulled off what looks like an incredible spring harvest. While we still have days of weeding and another batch of seeding of crops like radishes and salad greens ahead, much of our focus is transitioning to the summer crops growing next, with many like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, melons, beans, potatoes, and onions already in the ground.
Field of our Spring Brassicas, single rows in a tilled fielded of kale, collards, kohlrabi & cabbages
Inside one of new high tunnels 6 rows of tomatoes
We have been having a lot of fun in our new high tunnels this year too. While mostly intended to produce crops year-round, and for our Winter CSA program- we could not resist also trialing some fun early crops for our main season.
It has been a tremendous learning experience that is still underway, as we go to play with growing and plant management techniques that are just not possible in the scale of some of our open field spaces. So look forward to some early treats as they come our way, starting with some beautiful beets!
And for U-pick
Reminder that this is an offering for all shareholder’s no matter your pick-up location.
This year we are keeping the hours simple and easy to remember
9:00-6:00p.m. Monday-Saturday
Closed Sunday’s
This will come in handy here soon as it does seem strawberry season is easing in and will be producing a bounty we are sure in a few weeks time. That we will open the gates to you all to help us keep up with as it carries over hopefully well into June.
In the meantime though, please enjoy the herbs that are available at the farm. You will notice the signs and large fragrant mounds right at the CSA pick-up location in the raised brick beds. Please ask for assistance if you would like to know how to best harvest for them to continuously regrow all season long. But a good rule of thumb is to take the top tender tips and leave behind a good portion of the plant to survive, many do not get survive being cut at soil level.
For our remote locations note we will try our best to harvest some of these extras when we can- especially when items like the basil is abundant. But we highly encourage a few trips out to the farm this season, especially once we start seeing a bounty of overlapping crops to u-pick from like sunflowers, cherry tomatoes and chili peppers!
The wait is finally over, 2024 has begun.
More from the Farm
As CSA shareholders you will receive first notice for all Farm Store updates, and availability throughout the season on our Grass-fed and finished beef and lamb, as well as, the honey that comes late summer!!
This season as well please note there will be an option for our remote pick-up’s to request their pre-orders be delivered along with their CSA pick-up’s. Making buying fresh and buying local a bit more convenient
Ready for our first harvest!!
-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org
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