Hello August... CSA Harvest - Week #9

Winter Squash blooming!

Good morning. The weather this week has not as stormy as last, but we have had some crazy wind as thunderstorms move around us and a couple surprise downpours. On Tuesday afternoon we had finished up harvest and we were breaking for lunch.  The sky was getting darker and the wind was picking up so I looked outside to check on things and saw a wall of water heading our way. Yikes! I ran outside to close up the greenhouses and row cover a few beds in case of pounding rain or hail. While I was doing this the storm hit, drenched everything (including me) with rain in a matter of seconds and the wind was fierce. I ran back to the house soaking wet, in what felt like slow motion. It only rained for 20-30 minutes but we were locked out of the field for the rest of the day, as it was a muddy mess.

Harvest Season has arrived and it’s suddenly nonstop. Wahoo! We work incredibly hard all Spring, seeding, transplanting, irrigating, weeding, building, etc and when the crops finally start to produce it is oh so satisfying. All that hard work is starting to pay off… and excitement levels are rising around here and at CSA pickup. I love seeing how excited everyone is each week, thank you for your continued support and sharing your successes and experiments in the kitchen! 

Tomatoes, slowly doing their thing. 

Oh tomatoes. I obsess and worry over the tomatoes every season, from the moment we start them in March, through their planting in the greenhouses, the cold springs nights, funky leaves appearing here and there, up until the day they finally begin to ripen in late July/early August. Which, I must say, I'm always skeptical will actually happen. But, it's happening! They're ripening, slowly with the cool Summer we're having, but the plants are loaded and it's only a matter of time until they all start to blush.

CSA Harvest - Week #9

The CSA Shares are becoming more colorful and heavier every week. It may be time to start bringing a second bag to CSA pickup so you have room for all the bounty!

The Sorghum Sudangrass is getting SO tall and is gorgeous in the afternoon light 

The time has come... we are planning to start constructing the steel building this weekend. This building will house our new wash station, produce storage and office, wahoo!  The concrete pad was poured in June and the materials were all delivered a couple weeks ago. This project feels a little daunting and really exciting at the same time! Wish us luck! We'll post updates as it progresses. 

Have a wonderful weekend! And savor these Summer days, they fly by too fast.

Rainbows and CSA Harvest - Week #8

Hello Everyone, 

It has been such a beautiful week here and has us loving Summer! We have had several thunderstorms soak the valley with rain in the last few days and it’s a dewy and muddy world outside. The darkest cloud I have seen since moving to Mancos rolled over Mesa Verde towards us on Tuesday evening... I was concerned we would see hail but luckily it was just a wall of water and a lot of lightning. These low dark clouds moved in, poured rain, and moved out fast and then sunshine returned and a double rainbow appeared. So beautiful! 

Here is the sorghum sudangrass cover crop growing tall with dark storm clouds in the distance heading our way!

Everything in the fields is growing incredibly fast, it happens every season but I always find it amazing. I made a quick trip to Ridgway last week after CSA Pickup and returned to the farm on Friday morning and everything looked like it had doubled in size. And I was only away for 48 hours, crazy! But this makes it easier to understand why it's challenging to stay on top of the weeds.

Freshly cultivated potatoes

The winter squash was weeded earlier in the week, I finished trellising the tomatoes today and we're almost done thinning the beets.  The winter squash are blooming and setting fruit, the cabbages are sizing up, as of yesterday the zucchini harvests are ON and the tomatoes are just getting started. Summer flavors, here we come! 

Double rainbow!

Everything is a behind about a week this year compared to last season, but when we look at the Spring temperatures it makes sense. Last Spring was so mild and warm and this Spring had some frigid cold snaps — two nights hitting 22 degrees in middle of May and a frost the first week of June — Brrr, that will slow things down a little. But all the hot crops are coming and will be finding their way into your shares very soon!

CSA Harvest - Week #8

This Week's CSA Share included the following: Kohlrabi, Chard, Purple Scallions, Salad Greens, Carrots, Head Lettuce, Beets, Cilantro, Basil, Broccoli, Kale. Yum! 

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

RAIN and CSA Harvest - Week 7

Rain people, it finally arrived at the farm and has the crops, the weeds and the farmers oh so happy. We start the day with sunshine and clear skies and then dark clouds and cool humid air roll in every afternoon. The dark clouds send me into a mild panic about the chance of hail, so I check the radar a couple times and cover a few crops with row cover. And then, before we know it lightning strikes are surrounding us and raindrops are falling from the sky. Aaaaahhhhh. Thank you Mother Nature!

Broccoli heads are just starting to form and the cauliflower plants are getting huge

 The afternoon storms gave us a chance to catch up on some greenhouse work over the weekend. The tomatoes and peppers were in need of a weeding and a little love. I whispered sweet things to them, cleared the weeds competing for water, nutrients and space and just observed how everybody was doing. I pulled one plant that looked funky... sorry buddy, you were making me anxious.  The early planting of tomatoes is growing a bit slower than the second and third planting, which are on their way to maxing out the trellis already. I think it has to do with the cold temps they had to grow through in May, those couple nights that dipped into the low 20s. They're still growing and setting a lot of fruit, they're just not as robust as the later plantings. Note to self... maybe don't rush the tomato seeding and transplanting next Spring?

Cherry tomatoes beginning to ripen! 

The cherry tomatoes are slowly ripening and I saw a few heirlooms blushing yesterday. It's coming...  and I'm hoping we have tomatoes to share in the next week or two. In other news, the shishitos are ready for their first harvest today and are loaded with the many peppers to come. Look for these tasty peppers in the CSA Shares this week!  

 As mentioned in previous posts, we are building a new barn for our wash/pack/storage area. The concrete pad was poured in early June and materials for the building were delivered to the farm first thing yesterday morning. Mike spent the morning unloading the steel beams, siding, roofing, hardware etc... and staging them for construction in the coming weeks. Now, to find the time to get this structure built. I think this may consume our weekends in August... coffee and building! Time to pull out the tools again. Next year is going to be great... we keep saying 'Lets just farm next year."

Mike unloading the semi with the materials for our steel building.

The farm is suddenly popping with so many colors! The bold purple of kohlrabi, the bright red stalks of chard, cherry tomato jewels ripening and the deep greens of the brassicas. The zucchini and beans are just starting to bloom and the cucumbers in the greenhouse are loaded with baby fruit. The flavors and textures in the CSA Shares are about to change... 

We are harvesting the last of the early carrots and beets out of the greenhouse today and will be seeding a quick buckwheat cover crop in these beds before transplanting a round or greens for the Fall CSA in late August/early September. The outside carrots and beets are close...  we'll find out next week if we got our seeding dates right to have continuous supply of carrots this season. 

Sunset post rain storm, so incredible. 

OK, it's light outside and time to harvest. Enjoy the day folks! Below are the harvest details for Mountain Roots Produce CSA Share, Week #7:

Salad Greens, Head Lettuce, Chard, Collards, Carrots, Beets, Kohlrabi, Scallions, Shishitos and Herbs

CLOUDS and CSA Harvest - Week #6

Brassica block after a second weeding

Good morning! 

It's cool and overcast here at the moment, and it feels so good! There's a chance of rain at the farm today but it looks like a guaranteed stormy day in Telluride, so CSA pickup might be a wet one. Bring your rain jacket and umbrella! 

Cover Crop Seed Mix - SO gorgeous! 

Mike spent the weekend seeding cover crops throughout the farm. We rented the No Till Drill (pictured below) from the High Desert Conservation District. The photo above is a multi-species mix from Green Cover Seed that we're really excited about. We drilled this into the triticale/vetch block that we recently flail mowed. Building soil!  We also seeded an oats/pea/vetch mix in between the two production fields where we hope to plant an apple orchard. 

I spent the weekend tackling weeds. Oh so many weeds... but we're making headway. I finished the brassicas on Sunday, did a second pass through the carrots, cleaned up several green seedings, and yesterday Sadie weeded the beans once harvest was complete. Speaking of the beans, they're about to bloom! Cherry tomatoes are slowly starting to ripen, and I think the cucumbers and zucchini are near. 

Mike using the No Till Drill from the High Desert Conservation District to seed a cover crop in the section we flail mowed a couple weeks ago.

Yesterday was a dreamy harvest day and the best one of the season so far. We woke up to clouds that hung around until 12:30 or 1:00 so harvest felt mellow. It wasn't the normal race to get the greens all harvested before the heat arrived. Yea clouds! We have been clouding up most afternoons around 2 o'clock or so... which is so perfect. Right at the heat of the day clouds roll in and cool everything off, we have even had a few sprinkles here and there. We're ready and hoping for a downpour at the farm, but in the mean time, we're so grateful for the cloud cover. Thanks Mother Nature!

Onion seed crop is about to bloom

On tap for later this week... weeding the cabbage field and the second succession of carrots and beets! We have been walking past them all week and I'm anxious to focus on them starting tomorrow. I should capture before and after shots to share...

CSA Share - Week #5

OK, enough rambling. I should get organized so we can leave for Telluride on time...

CSA Harvest - Week #6: Salad Greens, Head Lettuce, Kale, BEAUTIFUL Collards, Carrots, Beets, Scallions, Cilantro and Basil. Yum! 

We look forward to seeing everyone later today! Until then, be good and enjoy the morning...

It's July and CSA Harvest - Week #5

Irrigating Potatoes

July is here and we're hoping she brings us clouds and rain. I find myself dreaming of raindrops in the evenings... and can hardly wait for the comforting smell of the first rain, for the pollen and dust to be knocked down, to feel the ground, the field, the plants and myself all let out a big sigh of relief as the temperatures drop and moisture falls from the sky.... Come on RAIN! We have our fingers crossed for a healthy monsoon season,

We made it through Spring and the long, hot month of June but not without a lot of sweat, tears, hangry moments and pure exhaustion. The season has honestly been kicking our butts, as we're trying to do a little too much. We're building ample amounts of infrastructure this year (prop house, game fence, moveable greenhouses, steel building for our produce wash/pack/storage area, etc.), growing a bit more produce than previous years and forcing ourselves to stay on top of the weeds. So, tackling those projects and adding in harvests and deliveries in June has not left much time for sleep, food prep, or down time. But, we're excited about July and hoping this month will bring us some relief in the form of rainfall. Rainy days let us take a break from irrigating and hopefully kick us out of the field for a day here and there.

Freshly weeded onions looking lovely

We finished the second weeding in the onion block on Saturday! Look at these beauties, aaahhh! It's my favorite block of the farm at the moment and I think they know it! 

We harvested the garlic on Monday morning! Woop woop! With a slight chance of rain later in the week we decided it was time to pull the garlic. It was exciting to use an undercutter that we purchased last Fall but never had a chance to use... and it worked great and made the garlic harvest so easy and fast! We're hoping we can use this implement to harvest the carrots, beets, turnips, etc. this season. 

We tackled most of the root block last week and everything is looking pretty good! The germination in the field is great, the plants are growing and we successfully cleared the weeds, well atleast for a couple weeks! Grow roots, grow! Out here we have the main planting of turnips, beets, carrots, parsnip, rutabagas, and winter radishes (watermelon, spanish black and daikon). The second succession of beets, carrots and radishes are just starting to pop up. 

CSA Harvest - Week #4

I seeded the next succession of lettuce trays yesterday and Fall brassicas are on the list for tomorrow. Yes, you heard right, the greens we'll be harvesting and enjoying October through November are seeded now and get transplanted mid-August. Always planning ahead!

Harvest details for CSA - Week #5: Salad Greens, Head Lettuce, Kale, Chard, Mustards, Scallions, Carrots, Herbs and Garlic. Enjoy!

CSA Harvest - Week #4

Sunrise

Hello Hello, 

Sunshine and heat have been the day to day here at the farm... with such glorious mornings and incredible sunsets. Summertime! 

Most of the crops we have planted LOVE the heat and long days but a few are not as enthusiastic... those being the spinach and peas. The spinach is starting to bolt and the peas have pretty much stopped blooming and producing. SO, enjoy these crops in the shares this week. Spinach will return in the Fall, when it's at it's sweetest! Peas... we will see you again next Spring! 

So far most of the lettuces are handling the heat well but we have had a few crops bolt (this is when they reach for the sky to produce seed) earlier than anticipated. I'm not sure if it's from the drastic temperature change we had last week, going from a frost up to 90 degrees in less that 6 days or if it has to do with the thick smoke that covered the valley for a couple days last week. 

Onions! I'm obsessed with the onion block, they're all looking so good and we started their second weeding yesterday. 

Mike hilled the potatoes on Friday evening! They're looking good, minus a few gaps here and there as voles have turned out to be quite the nuisance in the new field. We are trouble shooting this at the moment and are happy we planted a little more than last season. 

Mike hilling the potatoes with the Farmall 

Our friend, neighbor and fellow farmer purchased a tractor and flail mower recently and let us borrow it on Saturday to mow down the triticale/vetch field!!! This mower chops the cover crop up into small bits and leaves a thick layer of mulch on top of the soil for protection. The plan is to rent the No-Till Drill from the High Desert Conservation District in early July and seed a Summer cover crop of oats and peas. Yes! Sometimes I wish we could just grow cover crops... it would be so beautiful, but I'm not sure how that would pay the bills?

Flail mowing the cover crop with our neighbor's equipment! 

We are feeling pretty good about the current state of the farm for the end of June. Most of the farm is planted, Mike seeded the second succession of roots today. We're fairly on top of the weeds, everything has seen a weeding pass and we're already on to the second round. I'm hopeful we can keep the weeds in check this season and looking at comparison photos from last year, I feel like we're doing a pretty good job. And we need to give some serious credit here to our employee, Sadie, she's saving us this season and without her the weeds would definitely be out of control. Thank you!  

CSA Week #3 - Carrots, Head Lettuce, Snow Peas, Hakurei Turnips, Baby Kale, Garlic Scapes, Salad Greens, Arugula, Basil, Radishes and Dill. 

We spent Monday morning setting up the last two lines of tomato trellis for the late planting of heirlooms and cherry tomatoes. They're looking lovely and will appreciate being pruned later in the week so they have more breathing room and some direction. Oh tomatoes, I can hardly wait! 

Harvest for this week's share is complete and we'll be heading your way tomorrow. We look forward to seeing everyone then! Here are the CSA Harvest details for Week # 4:

Lettuce, Kale, Bok Choy, Spinach, Carrots, Beets, French Breakfast Radishes, Garlic Scapes, Peas (last of the season!), Cilantro. Enjoy folks! 

Summer Solstice and CSA Harvest - Week #3

Tomatoes, freshly pruned and trellised!

Summer Solstice is today folks! We were having a conversation in the field yesterday around anxiety about Summer flying by too fast. Summer here is incredible, short and always zips by, so lets remind each other to try to slow down and savor every moment of the next few months. Deal? Ok!

Wild week here. We frosted at the farm on both Tuesday and Wednesday morning and then by Saturday we were sweating in the high 80s. Wow, Spring has been an interesting one this year and has kept us guessing! We had a few things get burned with the frost last week but on the whole everything pulled through just fine. My Mom and little brother were in town visiting on Monday and thankfully helped me repair a broken sidewall on the greenhouse (I went to close up in the evening and it wouldn't roll up, eek!) and pull all the row cover out of storage so we could hoop and cover the tomatoes. I'm so happy we did, because I woke up on Tuesday morning early to temps in the low 30s and we had to wait to harvest for a couple hours because the greens were frozen and needed to thaw out. Oh my! 

Ooooo Collards! 

Mike helped me set up the tomato trellis in the high tunnel and the first moveable tunnel and I spent Sunday pruning and trellising tomatoes, which felt amazing! I have been walking past the tomatoes for a week now, anxious to get them trellised so having this task complete is very satisfying. Ok tomatoes, do your thang! Some have set fruit and they're all blooming like crazy. I'm hoping we'll be able to start harvesting tomatoes in late July... 

Potatoes, weeded and ready for water

We are tackling weeds around here, one section at a time. The potatoes are weeded and should be ready for a hilling next week. We worked our way through most of the cabbage beds yesterday afternoon, 8 left to go! And once the cabbages are finished we'll move into the roots later this week. Oh the root block... you're constantly on my mind and need to be weeded ASAP. If not... the weeds can and will get big fast and turn this project into an obnoxious task that will take 10 time as long. 

Onions shining in the early morning light

Mike shaped the remaining beds in the field in preparation for seeding the second round of carrots and beets. I think we're going to wait for these high temps to pass and plan to seed on Sunday or Monday, when we're back in the low 80s. 

We transplanted a third succession of broccoli and cauliflower yesterday morning and a hopeful round of peppers outside after lunch. Padrons, jalapenos, poblanos, hot wax and some extra sweets red bells. Here's to hoping we have a long and warm season! The outside peppers did great last season but they went in the ground two weeks earlier as the temperatures were more inviting of hot crops last Spring. So... we'll see what happens!

All the beans, zucchini and winter squash are up! They made it through the frost unscathed, whew! We made a last minute seed order of these crops incase we lost them during those cold mornings and hard to reseed, but thankfully everything looks good. Grow lovelies, grow!  

Zucchini with mycorrhizal sheath! Mike was pretty excited when we dug this up on Saturday. These guys were seeded on 6/4 and just got their second watering last night. 

Mountain Roots Produce CSA Members: This Wednesday, June 21st, marks the third CSA Harvest and pickup for the 2017 Season! Telluride CSA pickup will be held every Wednesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Spruce Park (right next to The Butcher and The Baker). Your CSA Shares will be packed in harvest crates, please remember to bring bags with you to collect your bounty as we need to bring the harvest crates back to the farm for packing up the following week.

Check your email for this week's CSA Newsletter with additional CSA Pickup details, Recipes, etc.

CSA Harvest - Week #2

CSA Harvest - Week #3: Salad Greens, Head Lettuce, Baby Kale, Arugula, Garlic Scapes, Snow Peas, Carrots, Hakurei Turnips, and Herbs.

Mountain Roots Produce CSA - Harvest Week #2

Little Gem Lettuces

Hello Everyone, 

It's been a great week filled with sunshine, harvests and weeding. So. Much. Weeding. Yes! 

It felt great to complete the first harvest of the season and make the first of many trips to Telluride this season. Wahoo! CSA Members, it was so wonderful to see all of your faces, catch up and see your excitement about the first harvest! And, the hugs!! Ya'll are awesome. I hope you cooked some amazing meals and are ready for the next round of veggies. Time to use up any loose ends hanging around in the fridge.

CSA Harvest - Week #1

This heat has things growing like wild! But, there's a quick dip in temperatures coming over the next couple days. The forecast says we could drop down to 33 degrees (eek!) right before sunrise on Tuesday morning... which is a little cooler than I would like and has me worried it could freeze. So we'll be pulling the row cover back out and covering up a few things just incase. The tomatoes are all a little out of control and read to be pruned and trellised but we're going to hold off a few more days so we can row cover them one last time. Better safe than sorry? We haven't had a cold dip this low in June for quite some time, at least 4 or 5 years. But, there's a reason I have June 15th programmed in my head as the safe frost free date!

The next round of lettuces are ready to be transplanted.

We're tackling weeds, one crop block at a time. The onions got their first weeding of the season and they're looking amazing! Mike and I finished the brassicas yesterday afternoon and now it's time to focus energy on the cabbage and potatoes. We all started out a little rusty on the hula hoes but it didn't take long to get reacquainted and start moving at a good a pace. We are zipping through beds, which is good because there are a lot of them.

The greenhouses were getting a little over run with weeds as well, so I spent a couple hours in the morning getting them cleaned up and looking tidy. The basil is close folks... and the tomatoes are blooming like crazy!

Tomatoes are blooming!

The garlic and fava beans are looking lovely, and the peas outside are beginning to bloom and are in need of a trellis. Put it on the list! 

All the roots we seeded last weekend are up! Mike has been diligent about keeping things watered so they have the ideal conditions for germination. Thank goodness he handles most of the irrigation... it's a full time job. The hot crops (zucchini, beans, winter squash) are all very close, another reason we're hoping it doesn't get too cold the next couple nights. Fingers crossed! 

Mountain Roots Produce CSA Members: This Wednesday, June 14th, marks the second CSA Harvest and pickup for the 2017 Season! Telluride CSA pickup will be held every Wednesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Spruce Park (right next to The Butcher and The Baker). Your CSA Shares will be packed in harvest crates, please remember to bring bags with you to collect your bounty as we need to bring the harvest crates back to the farm for packing up the following week. 

Veggies looking lovely on display at our Market Booth in Spruce Park, Telluride. Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2p.m., now through October!

Check your email for this week's CSA Newsletter with additional CSA Pickup details, Recipes, etc.

CSA Harvest Week #2:

Salad Greens, Little Gems, Arugula, Spinach, Kale, Mustard Greens, Turnips, Carrots, Beets, Snow Peas, Cilantro, Green Garlic. Yum! 

Mountain Roots Produce CSA - Harvest Week #1

Basil basil! 

Good morning! 

It's June and feeling like Summer! I love it, the morning and evenings are so perfect and dreamy. Our bodies are slowly adjusting to temps in the 80's and the plants are loving this weather and couldn't be happier! Everything has really started to grow this week, I feel like I blink and the plants (and weeds) are noticeably bigger. Perfect timing for our first CSA Harvest, scheduled for Wednesday! 

Plant plant plant... that has been the motto around here. We seeded and transplanted all the things this week! Zucchini, green beans, pickling cucumbers, carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, parsnips, radishes, dahlias, hot peppers, a second round of broccoli and cauliflower as well as the next succession of greens! We are planting the winter squash this afternoon and then the farm is mostly planted for the season! I still have a few trays of tomatillos, peppers and eggplant to sneak in somewhere... 

Head Lettuce starting to size up

The game fence is up! Mike and Sadie hung the gates on Thursday evening, wahoo! I am already sleeping better. I'm not sure I can express just how much time and energy I spent worrying about deer getting into the field... and I am oh so excited and relieved to remove that worry from my mind. We still have a lot of finish work to do on the fence and we'll slowly tackle that over the next couple weeks. 

Blooming Vetch!! So gorgeous

Mike used our neighbor's grain drill this week and planted about an acre of sorghum sudangrass! This cover crop should grow quickly and very tall and help us control the canada thistle... wish it luck!  We'll be posting updates on this throughout the season. 

Seed crop updates! We are growing a couple seed crops in collaboration with Laura Parker of High Desert Seed and Gardens this season. The Joan Rutabagas are blooming and the Bronze D'amposta Onions are close! Such beauties. 

CSA Harvests start this Week! This Wednesday, June 7th, marks the first CSA Harvest and pickup for the 2017 Season! Telluride CSA pickup will be held every Wednesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Spruce Park (right next to The Butcher and The Baker). Your CSA Shares will be packed in harvest crates this season, please remember to bring your bags with you to collect your bounty as we need to bring the harvest crates back to the farm for packing up the following week. 

Check your email for this week's CSA Newsletter for additional CSA Pickup details, Recipes, etc.

CSA Harvest - Week #1:

• Little Gem Lettuce
• Salad Greens
• Arugula
• Baby Kale
• Mustards
• Carrots
• Radishes
• Hakurei Turnips
• Green Garlic

We are excited to see you all on Wednesday! Please contact us if you have any questions.

Have a great day!  

CSA Harvests start Next Week!

Cabbage field being irrigated with the side roll

Good morning! Oh my goodness, what a difference 10 days makes. It suddenly feels like Summer, the mornings are warm, the afternoons are hot and the sunsets are long and incredible. May is wrapping up gently and we're excited to welcome June. 

It's been a week of transplanting and completing tasks here. So many plants have found their way into the fields and the greenhouses and it feels GOOD. We're shooting to have the farm mostly planted by Saturday... fingers crossed!

Cucumbers were seeded earlier this week in the high tunnel and have already germinated. Won't be long now!

Cucumbers! They were soaked and seeded early last week in the last open high tunnel bed and by yesterday they were all up and looking good. I'm excited for cucumbers as we haven't focused energy on them in a couple years and we're overdue. I tried a bed of them outside here last season but by the time they were finally starting to fruit in late August we got a hail storm that damaged the majority of them. These beauties will be protected in the high tunnel and trellised which should make harvest a breeze. I'm hoping we have many cucumber salads in the near future! 

Lining up the basil transplants

We transplanted the first round of basil in one of the moveable tunnels last week... mmm, hands down on of my favorites to transplant (and harvest), as the smell is so intoxicating I could almost taste pesto while planting these. 

It's official, we are done building greenhouses for the 2017 season!!!! Woooooohooo! We had a few awesome friends come over Sunday morning and we attached the plastic on a perfectly calm morning, followed by a long breakfast and catching up. Thanks guys!! I am so excited to have this complete... and I'm equally excited to put away the drills, hammers, saws, tool belts, etc. for a little while. We spent Sunday finishing up the endwalls and building the doors and had her all prepped for planting on Monday. 

This house is now filled with tomatoes, shishitos and sweets peppers. Yes! 

Shishitos! Get your cast irons ready folks

Today we're planning to stretch the last couple lines of fence, do a serious farm clean up, make some adjustments to the side roll and prep for seeding a block or sorghum sudan grass, which we're hoping will help us get the Canada Thistle under control. More details on this to come!

Later this week we'll be seeding the hot crops (winter squash, zucchini, pickling cucumbers and beans) as well as the root block (parsnips, carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, winter radishes) and transplanting another round of greens.

CSA Harvests start next week!!! The first Telluride CSA Harvest and delivery is set for next Wednesdsay, June 7th. CSA Members, please open and read your Mountain Roots Produce emails as we're sending out a Newsletter each week that is filled with farm updates, recipes ideas, details on our pickup works, etc. CSA Pickup will be held in Spruce Park (right next to The Butcher and The Baker) from 11-2 pm every Wednesday. 

Also, if you haven't already, check out and join the Mountain Roots CSA Facebook group. We created this group for our CSA Community to connect, share recipe ideas, ask questions, etc. We will be posting some of our favorite recipe ideas to this group and hope the CSA Community will get involved and share their favorites as well. Click here to Join the Mountain Roots CSA Facebook group.

Have a beautiful week and we look forward to seeing you all next Wednesday!!