{"id":2113,"date":"2014-04-23T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/in-the-share-extended-season-week-1\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:45:26","slug":"in-the-share-extended-season-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/in-the-share-extended-season-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Share Extended Season &#8211; Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hKsVtVPk984\/U1cdEFsMEMI\/AAAAAAAABB8\/1nc0059lxAI\/s1600\/chard+041814+(1280x960).jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hKsVtVPk984\/U1cdEFsMEMI\/AAAAAAAABB8\/1nc0059lxAI\/s1600\/chard+041814+(1280x960).jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LETTUCE (2)&nbsp; We will be picking the lettuce heads in the morning, but it looks like everyone will get&nbsp;one butterhead and one red frilly leaf lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>ASPARAGUS&nbsp; The asparagus kicked back into gear after last week&#8217;s frost just in time for us all to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>SPINACH&nbsp;&nbsp;This is from the over-wintered patch and includes some&nbsp;massive leaves, so be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>CARROTS&nbsp;&nbsp;These are juicy carrots freshly dug.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>SWISS CHARD&nbsp; The plants are very large and quite delicious.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>GREEN ONIONS&nbsp; We have some over-wintered bunching onions that are nice out in the fields.<\/p>\n<p>HERB CHOICE&nbsp; Cilantro, dill&nbsp; or garlic chives.<\/p>\n<p>EGGS&nbsp; (1 dozen)&nbsp; Our flock is now 8 months old and cranking out the eggs. See Tom&#8217;s post for a one of our favorite fast foods, frittata. <\/p>\n<p>NEXT WEEK:&nbsp; Lettuce, asparagus, green garlic,&nbsp;Spring turnips, bok choy, herb choice.<\/p>\n<p>The first week of the 2014 Fair Share Farm CSA season is here!&nbsp; For the next 31 weeks we endeavor to feed&nbsp;you well.&nbsp; Our work takes place in the out of doors and crazy weather is known to happen in our region, but we work hard every day to minimize the risks and&nbsp;take care&nbsp;of the trust that has been given.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Every&nbsp;Tuesday night, I&nbsp;(Rebecca )&nbsp;list what is in the share for that week and&nbsp;give a farm report with some photos.&nbsp; Tom posts at around the same time with helpful thoughts on unusual vegetables&nbsp;and recipes using items from the share.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iXTpHLkcuO0\/U1cdi4PhwyI\/AAAAAAAABCM\/8ovJoLWJUWA\/s1600\/carrots+041814.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iXTpHLkcuO0\/U1cdi4PhwyI\/AAAAAAAABCM\/8ovJoLWJUWA\/s1600\/carrots+041814.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\">&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>The week started with the harvest of the high tunnel carrots.&nbsp; This is our second Spring harvesting out of the HT and we don&#8217;t feel like we have it all figured out yet.&nbsp; The carrots are juicy and good-tasting, but we graded out a fair amount of split ones.&nbsp; Still, we have enough&nbsp;nice ones&nbsp;that we plan to put&nbsp;them in&nbsp;the extended season shares again in two weeks.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iXTpHLkcuO0\/U1cdi4PhwyI\/AAAAAAAABCM\/8ovJoLWJUWA\/s1600\/carrots+041814.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iXTpHLkcuO0\/U1cdi4PhwyI\/AAAAAAAABCM\/8ovJoLWJUWA\/s1600\/carrots+041814.JPG\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The farm crew&nbsp;spent the better part of the past two days cleaning and preparing the wash and pack area for the harvest.&nbsp; Washing&nbsp;the hundreds of&nbsp;crates that we use&nbsp;takes a huge effort.&nbsp; Inside the packing room, the coolers are clean and running smoothly with the CSA crates already starting to fill them.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-SsPN0J9vqQw%2FU1ccxat5txI%2FAAAAAAAABB0%2FPQm3v5CL9EM%2Fs1600%2Fharvest%2Bcrates%2B042114.JPG&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SsPN0J9vqQw\/U1ccxat5txI\/AAAAAAAABB0\/PQm3v5CL9EM\/s1600\/harvest+crates+042114.JPG\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;While the farmers were washing everything in sight, the crops&nbsp;kept&nbsp;working&nbsp;without us.&nbsp;&nbsp;Converting solar energy into good things to eat is what they do, but it is easy&nbsp;to worry about their success.&nbsp; After some nervous anticipation, the seed potatoes have finally popped their first shoots up above the soil.&nbsp; A big hurdle passed for the potatoes and&nbsp;a good omen for&nbsp;the season ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zQI-U01dBuQ\/U1cdRdO4H2I\/AAAAAAAABCE\/1NsASZAXJ2A\/s1600\/potatoes+042214.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zQI-U01dBuQ\/U1cdRdO4H2I\/AAAAAAAABCE\/1NsASZAXJ2A\/s1600\/potatoes+042214.JPG\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Our mantra&nbsp;every year&nbsp;is this:&nbsp; best year yet!&nbsp; Let it be so&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LETTUCE (2)&nbsp; We will be picking the lettuce heads in the morning, but it looks like everyone will get&nbsp;one butterhead and one red frilly leaf lettuce. ASPARAGUS&nbsp; The asparagus kicked back into gear after last week&#8217;s frost just in time for us all to enjoy. SPINACH&nbsp;&nbsp;This is from the over-wintered patch and includes some&nbsp;massive leaves, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/in-the-share-extended-season-week-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Share Extended Season &#8211; Week 1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,90,14,47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carrots","category-greenhouse","category-high-tunnel","category-potatoes","category-swiss-chard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}