Cicada time
Greetings!
We’re enjoyed an extraordinary harvest this week thanks to last weekend’s warm weather. The flowers are especially beautiful at this point in the season, and we are absolutely swimming in them! The season for crops like peonies and foxglove is short, and this was the peak harvest week. We’ll have lots of bouquets available at the market this weekend; be sure to drop by and bring some beauty home!
The warm weather also lured the cicadas out from underground! We’re still hoping more show up on the farm, but we’ve enjoyed seeing them emerge around the wooded perimeter of the farm, and in the pawpaw patch. Their cries echo through the farm all day, a drone soundtrack to our working hours. It’s extraordinary to see them emerge en masse, knowing that in such a short time they’ll be gone.
This cicada molted on the row cover we used to cover our newly planted pawpaws.
They’re everywhere!
I’m not exaggerating when I say that we were extremely overwhelmed by the number of flowers we harvested early on this week. This is our cooler after the Monday morning harvest- nowhere to walk!
Because we’ve got loads of flowers coming out of the field these days, we’ve decided to join up with Well Crafted Pizza to host an event for the first time since December, 2019! On June 9th, at 6pm, we’ll be at Well Crafted taking part in their Crafted series and making floral arrangements. Tickets are $60 and participants will receive a lesson in floral design, make their own arrangement, and enjoy pizza and beer.
Tickets are available on Well Crafted’s website.
Sunday, May 30th, 8:00 am - 11:00 am: Johnny’s
We’ll be at market with arugula, sprouting broccoli, elderflower, edible flowers, garlic scapes, radishes, spring mix, and hakurei turnips.
We’ll have loads of bouquets, in addition to bunches of peonies, poppies, delphinium, nigella, and foxglove.
Take care,
Amelia and the rest of the Two Boots Farm crew
It’s not just flowers around here! In this photo, Meg and Jenna are planting beets.
Elisa showing off peony “duchesse de nemours.”