Reminder, for the start of the season coming up!
Week One Pick-up Date’s and Time’s
Wednesday May 10 -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday May 11- Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday May 12- Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday May 13- Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.
It is that time of year! The veggies are ready for harvest here at the farm and we are ready to kick off our season being able to provide organic, fresh, healthy, veggies to you all each week. This first week of shares will kick off the weekly blog post and emails that will go out to each shareholder who purchased, and those who have added additional emails to that list here.
For this first week, we suggest to bring simply a few reusable bags for greens like lettuce, and salad greens, and things maybe like green garlic and radishes/turnips. As those are possibly what we may see in our first share! Plus a way to take home some small baby veggies or flower transplants to take home for your own garden.
Please enter from the Old Marlboro Pike entrance, if possible, to reduce traffic on our farm residential road cutting through the farm with our entrance at Ritchie Marlboro Road.
To get there when coming from the beltway direction, simply continue straight and turn right at the stop light by Royal Farms, and less than a mile down Old Marlboro Pike you will find the front entrance on the right. This is where all directions will come from this year as we coordinate how to get around the farm to keep things easier to understand for everyone.
For more details for how to gather your share after you park, we are happy to get you up to speed once you arrive for your first share.
Veggie Updates: What’s Happening in the vegetable fields?
This is the second wave of this greenhouse reaching capacity, seen here filled with the summer wave of transplants.
We have been off to a strong start this season, even with the weeks of no rain putting a great pressure on our irrigation labor and on the well itself as each field cannot be watered at the same time being so spread out on the farm. The whole team has been juggling all of this successfully with wonderful coordination and they still keep on planting for the season.
Lots has already gone into the ground for the Spring season, and we will continue to do direct seeding rotations as the season progresses. We are currently working to plant the remaining summer crops in the ground that were just filling the greenhouse, as the last frost scare is hopefully behind us.
It really is quite a magically exhausting time here at the farm as the Spring, with all the hard presses on planting, working the fields, and keeping up with the drought tolerant weeds waking up trying to compete with the crops.— This the the time the farm is filled with so much potential to harvest more fresh produce for our community- which is what we are all about!
Other Updates at the Farm
We will still have some wonderful lamb cuts available from this Spring, and will be opening up bulk beef sales May 15 for our larger options 25,50, and 100 pound portions.
Also expecting later in the month to get all beef cuts remaining inventoried and updated in the farm store. Reminder to get yourself on the meat mailing list for announcements to updates to the store.
Our online farm store will be open all season alongside our CSA pick-ups for pre-orders and walk-up’s for you to add-on to your share from our other wonderful farm offerings, like our raw honey when it is in season and native tree’s!
New this year also- you will start seeing our lamb cuts and possibly more products this season will make an appearance at the
Chesapeake’s Bounty in North Beach, MD.
North Beach Market Hours: 9:30am -6pm, 7 days a week
This is a wonderful place offering Bay-Friendly products from small producers growing mindfully. And we cannot be more delighted to take part!