Lettuce seedlings, photo by Elissa Planz
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Announcements:
YES, THE FIRST CSA SHARE IS THIS WEEK!
You’ll receive an email from us on Wednesday around 2:00pm, letting you know what is in your CSA share this week. In case you’re as excited as we are, below is our best estimate of what to expect.
Like most years, the first weeks are smaller than most. Enjoy these early weeks for the delicious salad greens!
Did you miss our last email answering all your pressing questions about how to pick up your CSA share, when and where to go, and what to do if you skip a week? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions.
Love flowers? We’re partnering with EcoBlossoms Farm again this year! Sign up for weekly bouquets for pickup with your Clagett CSA share.
This Week’s Share:
tender spring greens, garlic & seedlings
A choice of salad greens: spinach, arugula, pea shoots and possibly spicy mix (a blend of baby Asian mustards that vary from very mild to a hint of horseradish)
Small heads of lettuce
Small heads of tat soi (a rosette of dark-green, spoon-shaped leaves that have a mild flavor good for salad or quick stir fry)
Tender, young kale
Green garlic (the immature garlic plant; it looks like an onion scallion but carries a strong garlic taste; you can eat both the green and white parts)
A few radishes
2 seedlings for you to plant in your garden or in containers for your window, including tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, lettuce, calendula, hibiscus and nasturtium
U-PICK:
‘tis the season for green herbs
Onion chives with edible flowers
Garlic chives
Cutting celery
Lemon balm
Mint
Oregano
Sage
Sorrel
Thyme
Growing wild on the farm: stinging nettle (wear gloves to harvest!)
coming soon:
what to expect in week #2
Strawberries! We expect to have 3-4 weeks of strawberries, and we’re estimating Week 2 for our first harvest (not a guarantee!)
Salad greens - expect one more week of tat soi and several more weeks of head lettuce
Kale - we have a healthy crop of both kale and collards, so you’ll see several varieties weekly until about mid-June
Green garlic - one more week of these, and then you should start seeing garlic scapes
Hakurei turnips - these are a sweet, white Japanese variety that we love to eat raw. You’ll get them for a couple weeks, as well as some radishes and later purple-top turnips
Thank you for being our members!
CLAGETT FARM
Wednesdays, 3:00-7:00 P.M.
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DUPONT CIRCLE DC
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