Various Updates

• Tomorrow, Saturday, August 28 from 8:30-11:30 - we will be at the Waverly Farmers' Market. The tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, summer squash and zucchini are forcing us to make another pick before next week's CSA. So, these will be taking a ride in the truck and we will be making them available for purchase.
• Tomorrow - from 4:00- ?? will be our Summer Harvest Festival. The post just below covers this topic.
• Cucumbers and planning. We talked about it here and we've had a week go by with more data collection. Another week and another 1200 cucumbers harvested. It's nice to have a crop do well and show us its potential. We realize CSA members might be tiring a bit of them. But, remember - in a 52 week year, you only get cucumbers for 7-10 weeks fresh from the garden in Iowa. Enjoy it while you can!
• In case we haven't said so (I think we have) - the turkeys do have their pasture north of the Poultry Palace now.
• The high tunnel DOES have some crops in it right now and we are starting the fall crops it will cover beginning in late September. For now, there are melons, tomatoes, peppers and green beans. All of these are experimental and we don't necessarily expect much from them. But, we have to learn how to work with the tunnel before it gets more serious this fall. At present, the melons are doing their best impression of a blanket, covering the soil in the tunnel (a good sign). The bees are enjoying all of the flowers and there are some small melons started. It's going to be a close call! Here's hoping for some yummy melons!
• And, irony of ironies.... we have to start irrigating some of our crops.