The Latest Farming News

We have some really nice baby Bok Choi coming in from the farm next week. See the action photo to the right.

Good news from our CSA Manager, Emma: Due to all of the supportive emails asking for us to bring Home Delivery to their neighborhoods, we are happy to announce that Belen, Los Lunas, and Bosque Farms can begin opening their doors instead of going to the stores. Please let any friends or family you know in those communities that they can jump on the home delivery train.

What a gorgeous Spring, uh I mean late winter, we are experiencing so far. March has definitely come in like a lamb and have not seen much lion yet. Fingers crossed.

Flavors are such amazing things to examine. Somethings you want bold and strong like a BBQ sauce. While others, like a hint of sage on mushrooms, you want to be so faint that you almost cannot discern it is even there. The artistry of cooking can come down to which path you follow—is it a bold statement or just a hint to lure you in?

Let’s start this week with some product highlights. Which are always more fun than product low lights. Spring has sprung. That is the good news. I love seeing our fields fill up and I love seeing the bounty from our neighbors throughout the region.

Man am I happy to see March arrive. I have always wondered why they made February the shortest month of the year and then every February I am reminded why. I am tired of winter, tired of watching my favorite basketball team lose, and tired of the color brown. I know that we are suppose to love all the seasons that Mother Nature gives us, but I don’t. I could very well go without winter and live a perfectly content life. My feet feel better in flip-flops than they ever do in scratchy thick socks.

I received one of the best letters that I have ever received in my life this week. No, it was not my Publishers Clearing House check from Ed McMahon. It was a letter from a 6 year old kiddo named Everett. Besides having better cursive handwriting than I do, he took the time to let me know that he loved the Thai bananas and wanted me to bring him some more. He finished by thanking me for all of the fruits and veggies and added a picture of me in a delivery van and him scarfing down bananas. It almost brought tears to a grown bear’s eyes.

I have a bunch of things that I want to cover, so let’s jump right into the deep end. No dipping a toe.

New newsletter. Same ramblings as before, but now with a new look. Since the first week of June, 2003, I have used the weekly newsletter to help keep things straight in my mind. We have a lot of moving pieces trying to marry a farm with a distribution system. These weekly notes help make sense of it all for me. Along the way, it also is a fun tool to educate our members a bit and run our business in a very transparent manner for our members.