First CSA pick up and farmers' market of the season

This past week has been very fulfilling for me. I got almost all of the plants from the greenhouse planted, including the cantaloupe. Last year I was very impressed with the flavour and numbers of cantaloupe I managed to grow. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can repeat that success this year! Melons need a great deal of heat and so in our northern climate they are started on black plastic (which warms the soil up, and bonus, keeps the weeds down) and then row cover is put over the top of them.

This week was the first CSA pick up of the season and the first farmers' market. I was very happy with the CSA, it was really great to see everybody, and there was an abundance of produce:

. salad mix
. green onions
. kale
. one large broccoli head
. one head of romaine lettuce
. dill
. mustard greens or chinese broccoli
. radishes
. one basil plant

And the new pick up location at the United Church in Gibsons worked out very well.

It was fun to see many familiar faces at the Fiddlehead farmers' market. It wasn't super busy but it was a beautiful sunny day and I'm sure the market will pick up as the season progresses.

Below a pic of me, just in from harvesting broccoli and veg gin (chinese broccoli).

Some pics of the washstation that has made my life soooo much easier, the washing machine is used only for spinning the lettuce mix, and look at all the work surface I have now:


A scale, bags, elastics, twist ties and Backyard Bounty labels for packaging items:


The mesh table (made from an old pallet) used for draining items:


And last, just because I thought it was such a cute picture, my neighbour Linda of Greenroom Organics, coming back from having the tire on her tractor repaired!