Strawberries are here one week out from the Flood of 2010 & Amazingly enough we have a produce offer
Posted 5/9/2010 3:52pm by Matthew and Allison Mills Neal.
Good day to everyone and we hope all are having a sunny Mother's Day. Despite all the happenings I was able to break away, thanks to Matthew and the Interns, and come visit my family in East TN for Mother's Day. It seems that even though there was plenty of clean-in and fix-in up that has been going on every day this whole past week, we still are having to let the flooded fields dry out enough to be able to get in with equipment to try to move around the washed top soils that were deposited in different spots throughout the fields. Then to follow up, we will plan on cultirotating the exposed soils and will try to get cover crops planted so we can start re-building the soils that were lost. It seems as if we might still try to get some summer crops out, even though we lost all of our most favorite spring crops. Amazingly, we did have a section of spring crops that hung on, even though there was still some damage done upon this area. The spring crops that are still alive are some of the escarole, cilantro, sugar snap peas, chard, and lettuces. This was a crop strip row that was farthest North of the overflown Leipers Creek, so they were able to somehow pull through as there was not as much of a forcefull water flowing over top. The sugar snap peas pea plants are wonderfully full with peas, even though they are not standing as high and proud as they were before the floods. The best survivor was the strawberries and those have been great to enjoy as they just started ripening the day after the flood, and we have those to offer this week as well. Please have a look at the On-Line Store as we actually have a great offering this week. Before ordering the strawberries please read the details by clicking on more details under the strawberry offering, and there you will learn how those will be offered on a first come first serve basis at the actually pick up spots at Elmington Park and On-Farm.
Also, we really appreciated all the words that were sent letting us know that many were thinking of us...thanks!
Hope to be seeing you this week, May 12th, at the Wednesday drop off.
From all of us here at Arugula's Star Farm
Also, we really appreciated all the words that were sent letting us know that many were thinking of us...thanks!
Hope to be seeing you this week, May 12th, at the Wednesday drop off.
From all of us here at Arugula's Star Farm