Countdown: One week until our first delivery

We transitioned from a hard frost on Memorial Day weekend to three weeks of temperatures in the 90s and no measurable rainfall.

A week from today, we will do our first CSA delivery of the season. In this email, we want to bring you up to date on a few items what to expect for deliveries, introduce you to our 2021 intern, tell you what we’ve planted and ask for your help as we scramble to get everything in the ground.

First CSA of the season

Later this week, we will send out a more detailed note to you all about what to expect for the weekly deliveries and pickups. 

For the moment, here are a few details:

  • CSA pickup will be Tuesdays from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Duluth Folk School (or the farm in a couple of cases).
  • You can either park and come into the Folk School or text us when you are outside and we will bring your box to you.
  • The first week will be only people with full shares. Those who ordered half shares will begin the following week.
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What to expect in first deliveries

This year’s growing season has challenged us in a couple of ways. We had a very cold start to spring with a hard freeze and temperatures in the mid-20s. This was followed by almost three weeks with no measurable rainfall and temperatures in the 90s, coupled with blistering heat indices. We are irrigating as best we can at our new location, but we have definitely lost some plants. 

The result is that we and other CSA farmers in the region have had a slow start to the season. 

As a result, expect the first boxes to be somewhat small. However, we also really like what we are seeing in the field and are optimistic that the season is going to be a good one for us and for you. 

What we’re growing this year

Here, in a nutshell is what we’ve planted (or transplanted) so far: garlic (85 pounds with scapes on their way soon), onions (1,000), assorted annual flowers, rutabaga (300 feet), carrots (250 feet), red fingerling potatoes (400 feet), sprouted broccoli (2 plantings), kohlrabi (2 plantings), bok choi (2 plantings), Napa cabbage (2 plantings), cauliflower (3 varieties and 4 plantings), broccoli (one planting), collard greens (1 planting), kale (2 plantings), Brussels sprouts (1 planting), cabbage (2 plantings), beans (300 feet), peas (400 feet), radishes (125 feet), turnips (125 feet), Swiss chard (1 planting), lettuce mix (2 plantings), head lettuce (2 plantings), high tunnel tomatoes (104 plants) and cucumbers (3 varieties).

Here’s what we need to put in the ground in the next two weeks: melon, peppers (hot and sweet), eggplant, summer squash, herbs, field tomatoes, two more plantings of potatoes, pumpkins and winter squash along with more rounds of brassicas, beans, peas, beets, scallions, salad mix, spinach and arugula.

Contributing members: We need your help

If you signed up for a contributing member share, then you agreed to work 6 hours at the farm this season. We ask that contributing members try to complete their hours by July 1. 

This is the busiest time of the year for us as we scramble to transplant and seed as much as possible even as we are trying to finish getting moved into our new space.

Please either sign up for one of our work days or let us know if there is another day or evening you’d like to work. We have found early evenings to be a very good time for both plants and humans to be out in the field. 

Meet Alli! Our 2021 intern

Alli Szewczynski is Rising Phoenix’s intern for the 2021 season.

This season we are very grateful to have Alli Szewczynski joining us at the farm. Alli is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, who approached Heather-Marie about working at the farm so she could learn more about where her food comes from. 

She joins us on Mondays and has quickly distinguished herself with her amazing work ethic and good nature. We are grateful to have her and hope all our members will have a chance to meet her at one of our farm events this season. 

Looking back on a year

Heather-Marie got a notification from Google Photos the other day letting her know that this week, one year ago, we were taking down our deer fence at the old place as we prepared to move to our new farm.

Just one year ago. Hard to imagine.  

Our day-to-day “to do” list has us stressed that we’re behind and leaving us feeling that we’ll never catch up.  

But when those photos popped up, it reminded us how far we’ve come in a year.  

We have our own farm. We have a plowed field with a fence around it and seeds and plants doing their thing just under the surface of the soil that has been amended with bucketloads of high-quality compost and fertilizer. 

And now, we are just days away from our first deliveries to CSA members.  

Pretty amazing.  

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