Availability for February 22

I spent pretty much the entire weekend outside working the vegetable beds. It really felt nice to be back in the dirt again. As many of you know, I took the last year off from growing so I could work on the rewrite of the Locally Grown site as well as FarmNotebook.com, a site for growers to manage their plantings and harvests, and keeping their customers informed. With most of that work behind me, I’m back to the garden.

Naturally, after sitting for so long, the tiller wouldn’t start. Considering that it’s older than I am (and half of it is older than my parents), I guess that’s not too surprising. It’s at the shop now, getting a brand new engine. Hopefully that’ll mean we’ll get another 35 years out of it.

In the meantime, I got out the tiny Mantis tiller and got to work. Two beds are now prepped and planted, and we’ll have Amish snap peas, purple and orange carrots, purple and red radishes, golden turnips, and albino and chiogga beets before too long. You can see for yourself what’s going on at my place at boannsbanks.farmnotebook.com. I’ve given the other Locally Grown growers free use of that system, so maybe you’ll get to see what’s going on at all of the member farms in pretty much real time.

There isn’t a whole lot again this week, but you will find a couple new items on the list. McMullan Family Farm has a few bags of mixed asian greens, perfect for braising. Double B Farm is offering inoculated shiitake logs if you wanted to try growing some for yourself this year.

In addition, we’ve got cabbages, coffee, nuts, beef, soaps, candles, and jams and jellies.

One final note: the annual Georgia Organics conference will be going on in three weeks down in Douglas, Georgia. It unfortunately starts on a Thursday this year, so we’ll be closing down Locally Grown that week (March 8th). I’ll be sure to give you several more warnings between now and then.

Thanks for all your support! I know many of you have been out there spreading the word about Locally Grown. It looks like this could be a good year for supply, so keep letting your friends know about us. We’ll see you on Thursday from 4:30pm to 7:00pm at Gosford Wine!