Summer Share #5 of 20- 7/7+7/9 Surviving this Heat!

This past week has maybe been one for the record books for us. Of course the multiple days in a row with very high temperatures, but also the very warm nights. When plants experience heat stress one of their defense mechanisms is to drop blossoms (flowers). With fruiting crops like squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, melons, etc...all the vegetables we harvest from them start as flowers. So if plants drop flowers to help them get through these crazy days, then we have less to harvest in the future. Sometimes people ask me if the "so-and-so weather" is good for the crops. Usually the answer is if you couldn't stand being in it then they generally don't like it either (of course plants are way tougher than humans and can put up with more than us).

And beyond that it takes a lot out of us farm crew. A lot of us meal prepped before all this and made sure we had plenty of cold meals to eat for the week. Who wants to eat hot food on a hot day? Which is, of course, perfect salad weather! Good thing you all got all those leafy green vegetables with your last share. Also helps you "work through" all that meat you'll be eating for the 4th ;)

This week's share will include zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, broccoli, radishes, turnips, kohlrabi, carrots, cabbage, radicchio, spinach, bunched greens, Bok Choy, Head Lettuce, garlic scapes, and scallions.

The Fruit Share will be starting with cherries!

Savage Wheat and Three Sisters will be here this week as well!