Hey guys! Thank you for being here again this month for our “Growing Now” segment. We have acquired quite a bit of new followers and want to take the time to say welcome and thank you for joining us in our quest to bring truly clean and organic food to The Wiregrass area. Something that’s a little different about this post is that it’s late. We usually have this segment ready for the last day of each month, but May has been a hard month for farmers to say the least! So please forgive us on our tardiness!

As we go into June we are hopeful and excited about rain! Last year around this time, our gardens were flooding and there was way too much rain. This year we’re all literally praying and hoping rain comes. Nevertheless if it doesn’t, we will keep working hard and getting up early to take care of our land, plants, and animals. This is the part of farming that gets serious and although we’re small, we feel the effects just like the big farmers do. At last check, rain has been forecasted for later in the week, so hopefully it will.

In the month of June, we are heavy into the garden change over. We are pulling the last of our Spring crops and rearing into Summer. Everything is a bit late this year, but we have the most beautiful tomatoes growing! Some that have began to color and others that we’re trying hard to patiently wait for.

We saw our very first pepper on the vine over the weekend. It’s so super cute and even though the plant is small, we look forward to harvesting peppers soon.

Our always non-GMO and organic corn was given a compost feed yesterday. It has been fighting to stay alive and was looking pretty sorry. We are going to baby it to ensure that it can perk up and get the nutrients it needs. According to the records, we should have corn this week! There are a few ears developing, but very slowly. We are pushing through and hoping the compost along with the expected rainfall will do wonders for it.

Our herb garden is expanding and I’m happy to say that all herbs are doing well. Here is a new one for us this year!

Cucumbers and squash varieties are flowering! Oh and pumpkins are thriving.

This is the last month of our Spring CSA. It has been a great season and it’s bittersweet to see it end. Thank you to all our members and those to come!

As we go out to meet all of you during Farmers Market Season we are so excited. Our customers keep us going and we love meeting everyone and hearing your feedback.

In chicken news, we’ve got them growing and like we do every summer we’ve bulked up our birds to be ready for all our customers! Our originals and new ones to come! Be sure to check our “Announcements” to see where we will be. You can also follow our Facebook page. See you next month!