hi friends,
It's been busy on the farm and I'm just now posting the newsletters for the past few weeks boxes. - alice

our wonderful friend Andrea says, "Even though industrial and alternative agricultures are often talked about like they’re opposites, real farming worlds are often messier. This talk tries to push beyond the agricultural binary to understand how food systems in Iowa are changing."

If you are bored on July 5, come join us for some garlic excitement!

Here are some historic pictures of previous garlic harvests, including a happy Alice Foster trimming garlic.

#1 is that you are invited to help us harvest GARLIC on July 5th!

Would you like to learn more about the Catholic Worker Movement?
Join us in a series of virtual lessons and discussions about the core values of the catholic worker movement.  this is a great  opportunity to learn more about the catholic worker movement and to get to know people from other communities.  You don't need to sign up for all the sessions (though i think they will all be great!)

featuring this week's newsletter by Mira Livia Berkson. (alice's apologies for the cut-off edges. the original is bigger than the farm's scanner)

hello everyone!
Here's this week's newsletter, made by Maggie Miller, an intern and community member on the farm.  The weather continues to be very challenging and stressful, leading to lots of unpredictability in the crop yields.  All of us on the farm are thankful for the cooler weather today, and Sunday's half inch of rain, but we need much more.  we are still hoping for some more this week.

here's a very fun and informative CSA sheet made by new community member Katherine Weatherall.

we hope to be able to give you at least 1 kind of berry in your box every week for the next few weeks.
possible berries you might be getting this week:
strawberry, honeyberry, juneberry, raspberry, gooseberry
and hopefully soon, also currants, blueberries, and black raspberries.
here's some more info about honeyberries and juneberries on our website:
http://mustardseedfarm.org/?q=node/404

WEATHER REPORT:

5/27/2020 Yes, we now have prairie plants and garden plants available for on-line order and for sale at the Ames Downtown Farmers Market the first 3 weeks of June.

We are currently planning on being at the Ames Downtown Farmers' market (May 22, June 5, 12, and 19), and doing an online order form for on-farm pick-up (Sundays 10am-5pm).

Veggie plants

First CSA Delivery starts this week!

hello wonderful members!
thanks for your patience at this amazingly full and busy time of year!  After last weeks rain, the crops and the weeds are growing like crazy.  we are trying to keep on top of planting and weeding and training our new workers and it's hard to find computer time. 

 important things to note for this first box: