With warmer sunnier days our tulip field has been taking off, so we’ve got a larger selection this week. This warmer weather is also speeding up transitions elsewhere on the farm. We began turning over the greens in our high tunnels last week in order to make room for transplanting tomatoes this week. Peppers and cukes are soon to follow in our other tunnels. This means that kale mix will be the only high tunnel vegetable we will harvest this week, but we are keeping an eye on the asparagus field and hope to have an update next week!
We’ll have 2 pick-ups this week: Thursday, May 2nd 2pm - 6pm and Saturday May 4th 11am - 3pm (Happy Stars Wars Day!). Orders for both days will open tonight (Monday April 29th) at 6pm. If you are ordering for Thursday pick-up, the online store will close at 6am on the 2nd. If you are ordering for Saturday pick-up, those will close Friday at 6am.
In addition to online order pick-up, we will have additional seedlings out for walk-up sales this Saturday.
To place an online order visit:
https://openfoodnetwork.net/barrett-s-mill-farm/shop#/shop_panel
Available for order this week:
Kale mix
Green garlic
Fat Moon Mushroom: Maitake, Lion’s Mane, Farmer’s Mix and Shiitake. Orders for the mushrooms will close Wednesday at 6am to meet Fat Moon’s ordering deadline.
Seedlings: Fennel, Swiss Chard, Herbs (chives, cilantro, lemon balm, oregano, parsley, sage, thyme). It’s possible we’ll have some additional varieties available by Saturday.
Narcissus
Tulips (see below for the list of varieties)
Single type tulip varieties include:
Aafke: rose-colored single type
Avignon: raspberry-fuschia single type
Menton: apricot-pink single type
Yosemite: dark rose-pink single type
Double blooming tulip varieties include:
Amazing Grace: lavender-pink peony-type bloom
Blue Spectacle: violet-purple peony-type. Available later this week!
Charming Beauty: blush-apricot peony-type bloom
Creme Upstar: cream and blush colored peony-type bloom
Margarita: rose-magenta peony-type bloom
Orange Princess: orange peony-type bloom
Pep Talk: double type with pink, ivory and rose striations. Very limited.
Sunlover: golden yellow peony-type bloom with orange and red striations. Very limited.