This Week at the Farm

[A new life column from Evie Truxsaw at Tierra Vegetables]

Hello everyone,

Has summer weather finally arrived? Early morning fog followed by afternoon sun. Hope so. Yesterday was surely a beautiful day and today looks like the same.

Have I told you we have four more baby chicks? They are a few weeks old now. Running around with their mom, learning the ins and outs of chicken-ness: scratching around, eating bugs, running away from the big hens who chase them off of the food.

We love watching them. The mother chicken always teaches them to be afraid of us which is a bummer but the way of nature, I guess. That seems to be lesson number one from the first day: “Watch out for those big two legged things.” Oh, well. Someday I’ll have chickens that follow me to (but not into) the house. For now, I’ll watch them grow, thank them for their eggs and their silly antics, scold them for being mean to each other (even though they don’t listen).

Okay, enough about the cluck clucks. What’s available at our Farm Stand?

Speaking of chickens, we have a few eggs.

The eggplant has started. I had my first one last week and it was SWEET as our eggplant usually is. We’ve got plenty of tomatoes as well: nice red, vine ripe tomatoes. Carrots, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, chard, strawberries, rhubarb, maybe a few chiles and sweet peppers, especially Gypsy!!! (which I don’t think we had last year but looks like there are plenty this year!). Onions, freshly dug garlic and POTATOES, summer squash of many varieties and colors, including zucchini, GREEN BEANS, and maybe a few cucumbers. Definitely sweet basil (enough to make a pesto) and other herbs such as parsley.

Chipotes, dried chiles, jam and dried beans. Grown by us? YES! All from good old Sonoma County.

Hope to see you. Good weather for walking in the fields and visiting your vegetables. Bring the kids, bring a picnic (I’m serious).

Thanks,
Evie Truxaw

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