Baby Greens

Week of May 25th - Memorial Day Wkend

Restaurant sales have competed strongly for limited farm production of mesclun because of the 3 day weekend and Brown University commencement. Baby Greens sold 56# to subscriptions (140 families) and 41# to restaurants for a total of 97#, just below our sales goal of 100#/wk. More mesclun sales than this would place stress on quality control and labor demands. In past years, the farm produced over 150# at this time of year at a frantic pace. Something had to be done to ease the strain and that something was the sale of more micro greens to restaurants. Micro greens are those sprout-like garnishes on hauteur cuisine plates. they are less labor intensive than mesclun and command a far higher price of $30/#. We sold 32# of micros this week working smarter and not harder.

Two beds hoop lettuce seeded Apr. 14th will probably start producing next week after 6-7 weeks from seeding- a bit slow. Lettuce seeding May 17th in Garden#2 is coming up well and will most likely catch up with hoop lettuce in 2-3 weeks. Just goes to show how important soil temp. is to germination and growth even though the hoop lettuce had plastic over until last week.

Lucy's chicks are doing well. Ended up with six. Brought them and Lucy to the house garden to forage and scratch in the soil and sun for the first time.