The Weblog
We send out cool articles and farmer highlights using a different email program. You can see the archives of those emails here and through our facebook page! We use this “weblog” every Friday evening to let you know the market page is accepting orders (look for the little add to cart buttons next to products). Northeast Georgia Locally Grown was officially OPENED on Monday, April 26th, 2010 and we are so thankful that you are helping support fresh local foods each week.
Locally Grown Availability for March 19th, 2014
This post expired on March 17, 2024.
Hey Local Food Lovers,
I’m gonna keep tonight’s message very short. Is everyone as excited as I am to see Leah Lake Farm’s back this week? It’s really nice to realize that you miss individual farms and their products when they are absent for awhile. Welcome Brooks back by ordering BIG and next week I’ll be sure and order earlier so I can get some yummy carrots!
We’re still a few more weeks before all the goodness of spring comes into full focus. This is my favorite time of year for the anticipation of what’s to come. Asparagus, fresh beets, cabbages, carrots, fennel, radishes, spinach, kohlrabi, and oh my strawberries.
Spring time is my personal favorite time to grow things as well. It’s because there are so many crops that just plain have to have the cold. They won’t do well once the hot days of summer come, this is their time and they shine. But they also have to be carefully tended meaning either they should be started indoors to spare them the super cold weather in the ‘20 ’s that we may still have some of, or they need to be covered with row cover to protect them from frost, often all the way into May. It’s this extra attention of spring crops that makes them special. Timing is important. It’s also just fun to watch your small crops germinating in a nice warm house somewhere (greenhouse or otherwise) while the biting weather lingers. It’s the hopes of future feasts vs. the final famine of the end of winter.
It’s also potato planting time (some would say we’ve already passed the prime time), or perhaps onions.
It’s important for eaters to learn these rhythms of the season too. You should be excited about asparagus and strawberries after all, and it should always be at just a certain time of year. Maybe you’ll even get to where you know the week and you’ll remark to your friends, “asparagus came early this year,” or “what’s the deal we’re still waiting on asparagus, I’m about to lose my mind.”
Well that’s some ruminations on Spring. It’s a great season. And it’s a great time to EAT WELL!
Justin in Habersham
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Chuck in Rabun