As a farmer, it feels like you are always talking about the weather – because we are.  Every evening, we make plan for the next day and every morning, we have to revise that plan! This month’s theme seems to be rain.

On The Farm

The rain is a blessing in that we aren’t spending so much time irrigating right now, but as a result of the rain, we are spending a lot of time weeding. We are mostly use mechanical control on the farm – that means a lot of hoeing!  Ryan even has a favorite type of hoe. Personally, I prefer mechanical control in the form of a tractor…. it’s a lot easier on our bodies.  

Check out this video of Ryan using a “belly mounted basket weeder” in the field.  It doesn’t get the large weeds (we’ll come back through and pull those by hand), but it does get the little ones.  So as long as we get out there when weeds are small, we can keep it pretty clean.

We are in prime salad season!  Spinach, Lettuce and the fixins are producing well in the slightly cool and wet spring. Strawberries a blooming like crazy, so I’m hoping we have the first of the strawberries around June 7ish.  Raspberries are getting ready too, so we should see those a week or two after the strawberries.  We’ve started pulling beets this week and carrots should be ready in about another week.  The cole crops like kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are coming along nicely and we should start seeing those ready to go in a couple weeks as well.

Online Ordering – Additions to your Weekly Subscription

Would you like to add more produce to your weekly vegetable subscription tomorrow?  If so, you can go online to pekareksproduce.com/shop and place your order by 11:59pm tonight.  We will add it to your regular bag for tomorrow.

Online Ordering – Additions to your Weekly Subscription

Beginning next week (week 2), if you would like to have extra produce added to your weekly bag, you will be able to do so online.  Simply go online to pekareksproduce.com/shop and order by 11:59pm Tuesday night and we will add your produce to your regular subscription for Wednesday. 

Have Questions?

We can’t wait to see you!  If you have questions, please call Katie at (402) 560-3110 or Ryan at (402) 641-3305.

Your Farmers,
Ryan, Katie, Jacob, Margret, Michael, Lukas, Grace, and Crew