Happy weekend! Hope you are all well, staying dry and eating delicious food!

It’s finally starting to look like the season here at Crooked Row. With a colder start to spring and then these wild heat spikes, our fields have been a little cranky, and the plants are about 10 days behind in their growing cycles from where they were this time last year. But they are growing, nonetheless! We just began picking out of our younger strawberry patch (it’s a few pints every day, in a week we’ll have much more), the lettuce we kept under row cover is beautiful, and we are already trellising the tomatoes and cucumbers in our high tunnels! Our summer carrots and beets germinated well. Every season is always shaped a little differently, but we’re all feeling great going into June.

We’ll be in all weekend and for just a couple of hours on Monday if you need last-minute Memorial Day supplies, and we are stocked with these beautiful lettuce heads and lettuce mix, bok choy, napa cabbage, radishes, green garlic, scallions, hopefully some strawberries, and some extra cucumbers, zucchini and broccoli we brought in from the organic co-op for the holiday weekend. We are still well stocked on our salsa, ketchup and tomato butter, eggs and dairy, the Conscious Cultures cashew cheese and fresh and baked tofu, bread from The Daily Loaf and baked goods from Warm Sugar, meat of all kinds, pickled items, jams, and ferments. We’ll be restocked on apples and coffee again by Tuesday.

And we have an AWESOME first Friday coming up. On June 3rd, this Friday, Cellar Beast Winehouse will be joining us with wine and cider from Noon until 5pm, and then Jodi from Gauker Farms will be in with her beef orders and coolers for those of you who’d like to peruse her offerings in store from 3pm-5pm. If you’re looking to order beef for pickup, links to the pricing and Jodi’s contact info are listed in this Facebook event!

Also joining us this Friday from 3pm-5pm is our beloved Laura from Warm Sugar, with an extra special selection of eats and treats to start your June off strong. First Friday is a great opportunity to mosey in and meet the makers behind these amazing goods, and to treat yourself heading into the summer.

There are a lot of new names on this email list, so I figured I’d cover some of the frequently asked questions that we field during the stand days. Always feel free to ask questions! Odds are, others have the same questions that you do.

We have a smaller, mighty crew this season and we are getting it done! Everything from our field tomatoes to our second succession of summer squash is in the ground, and our winter squash was just seeded this week. We’ve been taking turns between the fields and the stand, but we should have some more regular help starting in the stand this week, so some more of us can focus on the fields as the plants really take off. If you’re in the CSA, (which is starting on Tuesday!), you’ll be getting another email from me in the next day or so with all the details about your boxes and pickup!

Thanks, everyone, for joining us on this organic journey and for trusting us with your kitchen pantries and fridge shelves. We look forward to feeding you now and in the months to come!

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