Happy Earth Day!

Today is the day when we can all take a moment and think about what it is that we can do, to make our environment better for ourselves and for everyone on the planet Earth. It can be as simple as recycling, limiting our use of plastics, carpooling when we can, eat organically as much as possible, but most importantly, we can teach our children, nieces, nephews etc., how they can start now to do their part in making the Earth a safer place for all of creation for the years to come. Now is the time, let's seize this moment with our younger generation.



It's too bad that in my generation and the generations before mine, that our consciousness was not raised to the level that it is today about protecting our planet. But, it's never to late to begin to do better! Let's all try.



News from our farm: Evidently a predator had it's way with the bantham hen. It just up and disappeared, leaving a mound of feathers behind to alert me of it's demise. The little bantham rooster has been totally "lost" since his hen was carried away. So, we now have another hen house and three new Heritage breed (Delawares) hens to keep him company. He is totally happy!



Today we pulled the plastic (another way of saying that we covered the hoophouse) today on the new Haygrove high tunnel (hoophouse). All 200 feet of it. Quite a job for John and Ty. But they did it and soon it will be full of plants for our CSA shareholders.



Our CSA has grown by leaps and bounds this year, and we feel extremely blessed to have such wonderful farm supporters. Without them, I think we could not continue to farm. On a farm so much of the time it's feast or famine--never knowing how much to plant, how much will not be sold, or have you planted enough to satisfy the needs of your customers. It's just a guessing game really. As far as our CSA goes, I think more folks are wanting to cook and eat at home with their families, and I know for a fact that they want to eat local and eat fresh and that's where we come in! Fresh to us here at Doe Run Farm (Farm to Table CSA) means, just harvested.

Our goal is to deliver your vegetables, produce, and berries within hours of their harvest!



We still have a few shares left for the summer season CSA if you or friends of yours would like to join us for the summer. At last count there were about a dozen shares left for purchase. We begin our season the third week in May and it runs through the first week of September. Check out our website:www.doerunfarmtn.com, for full information and prices. We have 3 share sizes to offer you this year-there's a size box for everyone!

Farm News

Planting season is in full force around here these days. Plus, we sow seeds almost daily to go into the beds in a few short weeks. Wednesday found us planting about 2,000 transplants, mostly broccoli, red choi, cabbage and Swiss chard. The fields are muddy today, so we will stay out of them until they are dry enough for us to work in them again.

For those following the antics of our bantam rooster and hen, the hen is still setting on her nest of 10 eggs. Nothing's happened there yet, but it should any day now. As a general rule all the eggs don't hatch, but we should have some tiny banthams before long. The mother hen is very pretty, light brown and gray with a little tuft of black on her head that resembles a crown..so cute!

We have some beautiful lettuces and other salad greens coming on that look wonderful! I can hardly wait for some crunchy, fresh delicious lettuce! In the winter we don't purchase lettuce or tomatoes out of season (frankly we don't purchase much that's not in season anyway), as they don't have any flavor, and flavor is what it's all about! We actually had a customer say to us when we were at the Franklin Farmer's Market in Franklin Tennesse, "wow, I never knew that lettuce had a taste to it". That was a real compliment for our lettuces!

I spoke too quickly about our soon to be new bantham hens. John just came in and had checked their nest--something had eaten all the eggs, most likely a possum or skunk! Sad, but the little hen is lucky she escaped the nest raiders grip. She is fine, but no baby banthams this time around. Had it been a racoon that had gotten the eggs, most likely it would have gotten our hen too!

The weekend is here and we wish you a good one, hopefully with some nice weather for you to get out and enjoy!