Happy May!
We hope everyone is doing well! Please do not reply to this blog or comment on it. We do not have a way to check these. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the office at 970-284-7941 or email jacquie@monroefarmcom. Linda will reply back to you. This is the only email we have for the office.
We are very excited for this new year and all the delicious food to come. Thank you for being a part of our farm. We look forward to being your farmers. It’s so thrilling to arrive at the beginning of a new growing season! We are one month away from the beginning of CSA!
Distribution: We anticipate starting CSA distribution on the second week of June depending on the weather. You will hear directly from your Distribution Center within a week before we start. At that time, you will get their name, phone number, e-mail, physical address, distribution hours, day of week and any other information you need to know about picking up from their home. They will include information on what to do if you forget to pick up your share or if you go out of town for vacation. Please keep in mind: these members volunteer their home and time to make this as convenient as possible for you. They will work with you if you have strange work hours or travel for work. We ask that you please respect their hours. If you cannot arrive during normal distribution hours, please call them to make an arrangement for you to pick-up your share. Please don’t show up before or after hours and expect them to be ready for you!
The following Distribution Centers are full: Wheatridge, 6th & York, and Colorado Blvd. & Colfax.
Fruit: We spoke with First Fruits about their trees and they said everything looks awesome! They had some nights that were worrisome with low temperatures, but it looks like the trees made it through. They are doing a lot of planting new trees and pruning existing ones. Blossoms are blossoming and bees are getting to business. Kacey says it looks like we will have a stellar cherry crop ready by the end of June! Ela Family Farms tells us that they have a few challenging nights to get through still but everything is looking excellent. Fingers crossed for an epic fruit year!
Asparagus: Asparagus is on! We will be picking over the next four or five weeks. We will attempt to get everyone out here (schedule dependent on your end), but flexibility is a must! Please return any phone calls from the office, that way we can call others to come pick if you cannot make it! Keep in mind that we don’t send email reminders. There is still room for you to get on the Wait List; if you haven’t already. There is no cost to you other than your time. Being on time is greatly, greatly appreciated!
Pork: We will be getting our piglets this coming week. Currently, we still have a few hogs to sell. If you are interested, send an email or go online to purchase. Our hogs have their own pastures planted with things they love to root up plus plenty of grain. We anticipate they will be ready for processing by November. For more information, please contact the office and we will send you a signup form.
Lamb: We still have lamb available. These animals feast on our organic hay with an optional grain available evening and morning. We anticipate processing will begin in late September or October. Contact the office for more information or head to our website to purchase.
Our Newsletter and MailChimp: By subscribing to our MailChimp you can make sure you’re seeing our newsletter each week once CSA starts. We will send out other various communications if we want to let you know about member work days or you-pick opportunities etc. You can subscribe by heading to the bottom of our website’s home page (monroefarm.com) and filling out the “subscribe” form with your info. We will be transitioning away from our blog! This maybe the last newsletter that is posted on the blog.
May is a huge month for planting. Kyle and The Crew have been and will be planting non-stop through the month of May and June. The rain, however, has stalled us from planting our popcorn, green beans, sweet corn, and some potatoes. We did get hit by a hail storm. There is damage across the entire farm. Because it’s early in the season, we can bounce back! So far, it looks like we haven’t lost entire crops. Hopefully, the plants don’t rot from all the rain we’re getting. We’ve gotten a half years’ worth of rain in the last month and a half. Hail is the most challenging weather that we deal with!
It’s a very busy time of year and when the weather allows, planting will continue until the first week of August. Crops such as beans, corn, squash, cucumbers, and melons must be repeatedly planted in order to harvest them throughout the summer. If something goes awry with a planting, you may not see a certain crop for a few weeks. Such is the way of nature and farming!
Zelle Payments: To send a zelle payment please use the email address: jacquie@monroefarm.com
“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow’s edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
With gratitude and love,
Kyle and Sam, Jacquie and Jerry
Monroe Organic Farms 