After the January farm conference in Little Rock, Annie decided to trial some summer flowers using Tiny Farms techniques of transplant growing.  She planted in a hoop house, in a raised bed and in one of our fields.  With the mild March both Zinnias and Marigolds are blooming in all three locations, along with our usual Spring flowers like Peonies and Iris.  Annie is bringing some to Durham Saturday. to decorate the table,with a few for sale.  (Annie will also bring a few pints of her special patch strawberries (in our backyard) - alway picked red.  Try them with the arugula… awesome.)

We are still overwhelmed with the amount of lettuce as a result of this years weather pattern. We plant every week and this year we have two separate weekly plantings of lettuce maturing during the same harvest window.  I will probably use some of the lettuce to help promote the farm at our new Farmers Market in Carrboro.  Getting people to try (taste) our wonderful greens is alway the first step.

Todd has been crazy busy.. he trenched over 200 feet of water supply lines to the new field on the North side of the farm.  No longer will we have to fight kinked hoses and to have to drive over them with the tractors.  It has been so dry that watering has started in earnest.  (Maybe todays showers will help.)

The cucumbers have been transplanted into the smaller “warm” hoop house.  The other small houses contain tomatoes and pepper that have recently set fruit.

Finally the fava beans are still flowering with pods emerging on the lower parts of the plants.

I hope to see many of you at market.. just think lettuce salads, lettuce wraps, French lettuce soup…..  Cheers

Under the Box program, there is a page for recipes. We really need your best using Tiny farm vegetables (especially our quirky mustards, leaf turnips…). Post a recipe this week and we will add an additional head of lettuce to your box or regular purchase.