Baby head lettuces are coming in well with other greens like arugula and spinach!
Pick-up times are:
Wednesday: 3-6 p.m. On Farm
Thursday: 4-6 p.m. Phillip Merrill Center in Annapolis
Saturday: 1-4 p.m. On Farm
Announcements:
Welcome to Week One of the 2026 season! We are excited to feed you and get to know you this year. Here are some reminders about getting to the farm and your share.
Enter from Old Marlboro Pike and turn left at the fork, following the big blue sign with the arrow pointing toward “CSA Pick-Up.” Go up the hill to the parking lot and pick-up area. If you enter from Ritchie Marlboro Road, it’s a straight shot past the barns. Be aware that the gravel farm road is uneven, so drive slowly and be on the lookout for other customers’ cars, tractors, animals, people walking, staff in fields, potholes, groundhogs, turkeys, etc.
Find your name on the whiteboard and put a check beside every week so we know you got your share. This is how we stay on track and how you can confirm if you’ve missed a share, or how many share “credits” you have left to collect. Ask a staff if you need some help figuring out your share credit count.
Please bring your own reusable bag(s) from home! We will have paper bags if you forget, but help us reduce consumption, especially of single use plastic. While we do have plastic produce bags for the delicate salad greens, consider some things you might already have at home to transport your greens and things in. Plastic bread bags, plastic clamshells from the grocery store, large tupperware, and newspaper bags are all great for getting your produce safely home if you don’t have cloth bags. Other things that work well as vegetable totes are shallow cardboard boxes, picnic baskets, and wheeled coolers!
The farm store is open during the CSA pickup window! Stop in to buy our grass-finished and rotationally grazed beef and lamb. Reminder that bones and organs are now pre-order only. If you want them, get to the online Farm Store to reserve them ahead of our next butcher date. Honey will be back in stock in early summer when the hives have gotten ahead on summer pollinating and we can do a honey extraction.
This Week’s Share:
Mixed Lettuce Heads
Green Garlic
Radishes
Arugula or Spicy Mix or Tatsoi
Seedlings
Strawberries*
*Strawberries are from Miller Farms nearby and are not Organic
Seedlings grown in our greenhouse for your home garden will be part of your share for the first 3 weeks! Lots of herbs and flowers are starting us off, while healthy young tomato seedlings will come next week.
Recipe:
Cooking with Green Garlic
Check out the article above all about green garlic: how to clean it, store it, and cook with it of course! Green garlic is the full immature garlic plant, before it has formed a bulb. The whole thing is edible, but the white and pale green parts are most tender for sauteeing, and the dark green leaves are tougher and best for stock or dehydrating and adding to a spice blend. Enjoy this seasonal delicacy while we wait for the rest of the garlic field to bulk up for summer harvest.
Farm Notes:
Welcome to all the new CSA members this year and welcome back to our old timers. We staff also have some new and old faces, so here is a re-introduction. We are sad and also pleased to share that Jared and Elissa have moved onto another farm. It was the right move for their family and big farm dreams and we wish them the absolute best at their new spot! They are still farming vegetables and having fun, just are over in Frederick County now. Mr. Joe Brown has moved into assisted living and is doing fine there; we will miss his quiet presence at the pickups. Will has left the tree nursery, but will still be around secretly seeding trees and helping the vegetable team now and again.
Above is almost all of our current awesome staff line-up, who got to have a day off the farm this week joining a student group out on the Bay. The veg team of Elizabeth, Olivia, Kayla, and Matt, are joined this year by Devon and Amara, who have both been learning so much so quickly and working hard this last month! Lilly comes to the farm with great livestock experience to help Alex in the rotational grazing management. And Thomas is lending a hand everywhere, keeping us all organized toward Bay health priorities, and holding down the tree nursery for the time being. If you see a staff you haven’t met before please say hello and introduce yourself!
Coming Soon… Napa cabbage and cucumbers!
Thank you so much for being shareholders! You have made a great choice for the Chesapeake Bay staying a clean water habitat, your local economics, and your own health.