For those of you who bought fruit shares and are anxiously awaiting the first bite,  we are planning on the 27th and 28th of July for the first delivery.

Rob and Linda haven't contacted me that it will be any different.  You can go to www.eaglecreekorchard.com and read Linda's blog.

Things are starting to grow with the warmer nights.

See ya at market
Valerie
Val's Veggies

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The warm weather is really making things pop.  Should have plenty of little summer squash by next week.  The peas and turnips are almost ready.  Maybe summer is really here!!!

Thanks
Valerie
Val's Veggies

This week is our first market.   June 15 in Lagrande and June 16 in Baker and June 17 in Enterprise.
What a spring this has been!!  We've got over 3" of rain since the first of June and twice it came 3/4" in 15 min.  Not good for keeping seeds in the ground!  We don't get that much rain in 6 months of our growing season.  We have done more mudding than planting.
 
Today was wonderful, now I'll have to start complaining about the heat.  The plants are loving it tho'.
After such a cold wet start I was really nervous about having anything to put in the boxes.  You will get a nice assortment of cool weather things and it will keep increasing in variety as the weather warms.

For those of you with custom boxes please go to sell and then click on the custom box.When it says to login with password just hit forgot password and create your own .
If you have any questions let me know.
See you at market

Valerie

Hi,
We are busy planting garden and wishing for some warmer weather.  Got the plastic laid last week and now the tomatoes will start going out this week.  We are planting 62 different varieties of tomatoes this year. It'll be fun to taste all the different flavors.  Maybe we'll do a tomato tasting day!

The taters, peas, spinach, beets, lettuce, turnips, onions, and chard are all up and growing.  Several days the last couple of weeks I think they wanted to crawl back in the ground tho. 

The winter squash, pumpkins, and melons are all going to the greenhouse today.  Just have to get the tomatoes out so there will be room.

Our first delivery will be June 15 in LaGrande and June 16 in Baker.  I'm looking forward to meeting all the new members and seeing the old ones from last year again.  We still have room for 3 more shares so if you know of anyone that would be interested be sure and tell them to visit the web site.

Thanks so much for being part of our farm.
Valerie
Val's Veggies

Planted the last of the tomato seeds today.  I'm getting excited about trying them already and they aren't even in the garden yet.  We will have over 60 different varieties this year!!  It is fun to walk down the rows and taste each kind.  That way you can really taste the differences. 

I made salsa yesterday with some of the green zebras and tomatillo's from the freezer and it was really good.  Used a dash of blood orange infused olive oil that my sister brought up this last weekend. Wow!!  that stuff is really good.

Will plant peppers tomorrow.  Plenty to keep me busy.

Whoa!!!  We were sure the ones that got fooled.  Woke up this a.m. and everything is white!!

Guess we won't plant taters today.  The plants in the greenhouse are thriving and probably very glad I didn't put them outside yet.

Ordered the rest of my seed yesterday.  Found some real neat sounding heirloom winter squash.  One or them is called Long of Naples.  A large butternut shaped squash with bright orange flesh that is rich, and very sweet.  A very rare Italian heirloom from 1863.  Another is called Sucrine Du Berry.  An old traditional variety from France that has just been introduced to America.  Has a sweet, musky fragrance and a delicious sweet flesh that is used in jam, soups, and french recipes.  Flesh is deep orange and good for roasting.  Can't wait to try them!

 

Rodney and I attended the Farm Direct to School Workshop last week in LaGrande.

Very exciting to see everyone coming together to get better nutrition for our kids and using local products to do it.  There are so many facets to this from educating the farmers, the teachers, the cooks, the parents, and the kids.

They had speakers from other areas in Oregon that are having real success with the program. 

I would love to offer some way for the kids to plant the seeds in May and come back in the fall to harvest.  Maybe winter squash or pumpkins.  It'll definitely give me something to think about while I'm poking those little seeds in the soil.

My spring fever is in high gear!  I knew just as soon as I started planting it would snow.  I was putting the little lettuce seeds carefully in, trying to get just one or two per cell and looked up to see big fat flakes hitting the window! Oh well, this is Eastern Oregon.  It sure is a different spring than last year tho'.  We still had big snow drifts last year when I started my seeds. We've got lettuce, tomatoes, and spinach up and looking for sunshine.  I planted more today and also onions.  Can almost taste them already.

I'm planting over 50 different varieties of tomatoes this year.  It was so fun to walk down the rows and taste the different flavors and textures last year.  There were a couple that I didn't want to grow again and then I found some more to try so the list got a little bigger!