April 1 Whole Farm CSA

Full Share: Broccolini, asian greens, lettuce mix and edible flowers, apple mint, cilantro or peashoot micros, hakurei turnips, onions

Half Share: Broccolini, asian greens, lettuce mix and edible flowers, apple mint, cilantro or peashoot micros, onions

Happy Easter! We

Please take double eggs in celebration of Easter this week! It is also your monthly chicken day. The chicken products are a few things that you’d hate to have to go without. Both the eggs and the birds are incomparable and much better than the store bought, free range, regenerative, organic, whole food, gmo and gluten free, and otherwise marketed poultry products. Josh has a lot of effort in to the Red Rangers and in to the eggs: the Red Rangers are moved daily for all of their summer and processed by Josh and whomever he can scramble up for the butcher day. Currently, the egg layers are being moved 2x weekly, and this will keep up for the rest of the chicken grazing season, when fall snows bring them in closer to the homestead for light and shelter. These gals are a mix of Americauna and other hatchery-proprietary named blue/green egg layers, Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red, Lavendars, and some sort of red sex link hybrid production brown egg layers, and our white egg layers: California Whites. We like keeping such a mixed flock, for a colorful dozen, and to help keep our breeds sorted when it comes time to make stewing hens…Speaking of which, our ladies do have an extra year, 30-36 months, of laying in their productive lives compared to commercial flocks, often retired after just 18 months old. We give them a break each winter to molt, recover, and get ready for the lengthening late winter days and another season of productive egg laying.

In your boxes you will receive a variety of greens as well as broccolini and hakurei turnips. A reminder that both the turnip root and greens are tasty and can be eaten raw or sautéed. We have been loving the Choi Sum sprouting Broccoli but we are happy to bring in our tasty favorite Broccolini into the mix!

We switched it up and put edible flowers, bright orange and yellow spicy nasturtium and multicolored violas, in your lettuce mix for a pretty spring salad. Nasturtium and violas are staples of our edible blossom program; offering a pop of color and flavor!