Sunday's farm event is rain or shine!

Come listen to live music and enjoy an interactive sculpture experience this Sunday May 31st from 11:30am - 2:00pm. There's a chance of rain in the forecast, but that's not going to stop us from celebrating the start of the season! In case of rain, we will move inside the farm stand and greenhouse. We will have a few chairs available inside, but if you have your own folding chairs or beach chairs, it's a good idea to bring them!

Music on the farm this weekend!

 
 

Join us this Sunday, May 31st from 11:30am-2pm for a relaxing afternoon on the farm to celebrate the start of the season! We will gather on the lawn by the farm stand where there will be music played by Amelia Mason (fiddle) and Bethany Waickman (guitar). If you'd like, bring a picnic lunch and chairs or blankets to sit on. In case of rain, we will move inside the farm stand. 

Amelia and Bethany will be playing New England fiddle tunes - a unique blend of traditional Irish, French Canadian, Scottish, English, and Appalachian music with a few original tunes mixed in for good measure.  There will also an interactive sculptural experience and children's art project led by Kerri Schmidt, our resident artist in the Concord Art and Agriculture project.

This week in the store

 
 

We'll have basil plants available for sale in the store on Tuesday. The variety is called Genovese Compact, and it is better suited to containers than regular Genovese basil. It will flourish if you transplant it into a larger pot at home, but will also do just fine in your garden!

We'll continue to have asparagus this week. We sold out early on Saturday, as the cooler temperatures on Friday led to lower yields. However, with the hotter weather forecasted this week, we should have more to go around  (a little rain would be welcome too!). This week, you can also try our asparagus at 80 Thoreau for their annual Asparagus Menu.

In addition to basil plants and asparagus, we'll have rhubarb, lettuce, Salanova lettuce mix, arugula and radishes in the farm stand. The arugula this week has some small holes in it due to flea beetle damage, but it still tastes delicious! Also, the radishes this week are less mild than last week's, but I think it's just the right amount of spice. We will hopefully have red Russian kale again by Saturday.

Salad fixings are here!

 
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This past Tuesday was noteworthy not only because it brought some much needed rain, but we also harvested some of our first salad greens of the season! Cut lettuce mix was available in the store on Tuesday, and for Thursday we plan to harvest arugula, red Russian kale and French breakfast radishes as well! Saturday we may even see an appearance from head lettuce. We'll also still have asparagus, rhubarb and Pete and Jen's eggs.

The store is still self-serve this week and probably next week as well, so unless you happen to catch one of us around the store, we unfortunately won't be able to make change for purchases. If, like me, you often don't have exact change on hand, think about joining our Barrett's Bucks program! Barrett's Bucks members buy farm stand credit early on in the season, and then each time you shop at the store, your purchase is deducted from your credit. It makes your shopping trips easy - no cash is necessary.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you again once the store is fully staffed in June!