The heat over the weekend was intense, but thanks to some focused work setting up irrigation over the course of several days, we were able to run irrigation all day Sunday to keep our lettuce, greens and spinach from withering. While we don’t particularly enjoy that type of hot weather, there is an upside. Those of you who came to the farm stand Friday late morning were in for a treat - we had the first strawberries of the season, and the sun and heat of the weekend ripened up more for this week! Strawberries are one of our most popular items, with demand always outstripping supply, so we ask customers to respect posted limits on berries this week so that we can ensure as many people as possible can enjoy them!
The farm stand continues to be self-serve, so please bring exact change or your checkbook if you are not a Barrett’s Bucks member. This will be the last week of self-serve. Starting May 31st the farm stand will be fully staffed and we will be able to make change and accept credit card and EBT payments. In the meantime, in order to make it easier for cash customers to bring exact change we are posting the prices below.
We will also continue to have pre-ordering available this week. Going forward, pick-ups will be available for Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with ordering opening the day before pick-up starting at 6pm (so if you are ordering for Friday pick-up, ordering will open at 6pm on Thursday).
To order visit: https://openfoodnetwork.net/barrett-s-mill-farm/shop#/shop
Walk-up sales available Tuesday-Friday 11am - 6pm and Saturday 9am - 3pm
Available for in-person and pre-orders:
Asparagus - Harvests have been solid, so we anticipate having plenty for everyone most of the week! $5/bunch
Strawberries - Because it is hard to predict quantities for the following day, these will mostly be available for walk-up sales, but we may also make a limited supply available for pre-order. Please respect the posted limit. Our online ordering system doesn’t automatically cut you off if you order above the limit, so we will only honor orders up to that posted limit. $6/pint
Spinach - $6/half pound bag
Mini daikon - $3/bunch
Bok Choi - $3/head
Fat Moon Mushrooms - Farmers’ Mix 8oz bags. Available Thursday after 2pm. $9.50/bag
Flowers - Stock (a beautiful fragrant flower grown in our high tunnel). $15/bouquet
Herb seedlings: Basil, oregano, sage, thyme. All suitable for container or garden planting. $4/plant
Other seedlings: Cherry tomatoes (Jasper and Cherry Bomb, with some Sungolds available at the end of the week), Slicing tomatoes (Big Beef), Heirloom tomatoes (Pineapple and Pruden’s Purple), Eggplant (Michal). $5/plant
Spring Mushroom CSA Week 5: It is week 5 of our 10-week spring Mushroom CSA from Fat Moon Farm! Mushroom CSA pick up is Tuesday 11am-6pm. Please email Melissa if you would like us to leave out your mushrooms after 6pm or if you would like us to leave them out for you on a different day this week. This week’s mushrooms are Lion’s Mane! The