Finally, a little bit of sunshine at the farm! This week was a big shift in the decidedly-PNW weather that central Texas has been experiencing, and we were grateful for the change in pace it provided us. Harvests all week have been noticeably less muddy, we can actually get our trucks around the farm, and this heat is finally putting some color on our early tomatoes!

Lots of crops are on the upswing with the better weather. Our zucchini and cucumbers have seriously taken off. If you're stopping by markets this weekend, be sure to grab a big load of these to help us move through our harvest - time to bust our your best pickles and zucchini bread recipes! We'll have an abundance of Juliet tomatoes as well - these plum-style tomatoes are sold by the pint and are absolutely delicious in salads, on pizza, roasted - pretty much any way you can dream up to use em, they'll really shine.

Time to bust our your Ball jars and juicers! Photo by Scott David Gordon

The Annual Tomato Sale is currently delayed until we have a little more tomato variety to offer, but in the meantime, we've got a really special box to bring you that we hope you'll enjoy. The cooler temperatures have extended our harvest on greens like kale and collards and herbs like mint and parsley, right up to our first big cucumber harvest. What better combination of ingredients for a nice big glass of nourishing green juice? We are offering a JBG Juice Box, available for a short time only, to share this abundant season with you. The Juice Box is available for pickup at this weekend's markets (order by 2pm today to ensure you get one!). It will contain juicy quantities of cucumbers, greens, herbs, and juicing roots like our sweet carrots and beets! You can order yours here.

Out in the fields, we are as busy as we can be trying to take advantage of the drier week. We've been out seeding more sunflowers, prepping as many beds as we can for transplanting (because who knows when the next rain will hit), and even though it sounds crazy, starting some of our longer-germinating crops for Fall in our shaded greenhouse structure - parsley and a round of peppers for late summer planting. The projects seem never ending with the sunshine - get the new greenhouse up, fix the trucks, clean-up projects everywhere! We hope you don't mind a slightly shorter newsletter this week while everyone at the farm enjoys this heat and makes hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes. We'll see you at markets this weekend!

Progress on our rebuilding efforts! Photo by Scott David Gordon