✨ s o l s t i c e b e r r i e s ✨

CSA picking crew 🔥🔥🔥

Tucking the cucurbits in for the evening to keep rodent damage at bay. Alternative caption: tiger bum desperately seeks nap on remay

A LOVE LETTER/SHOPPING SCHEDULE TO OUR FELLOW GARDENERS: Greenhouse open for in person sales every-single-day👊🌱 Mon-Sat: 10-5:30pm Sunday: 10-4:30pm CURBSIDE pick up* available Tuesday-Thursday only 10:30-5pm. *Place your orders the day before for pick-up the following day. p.s. Holy smokes, your passion for growing rn is beautiful and abundant- as a result we can not keep up with both online and in-person sales everyday of the week, so we are learning and adapting to keep up with your die-hard-New-England-dig-in-the-dirt-pace. Big thanks for your patience, support, and masks. Happy Planting and Stay Well!

Let it be known, that the Edgewater online PLANT shop is open for business! Here are the details: 1) order by midnight for pick up between 10:30-5pm the following day at our designated curb-side pick up. 2) If you are looking for a plant and you do not see it listed, that does not mean it’s not there, dm here or shoot emails to: orders@edgewaterfarm.com 3) We’ve been practicing growing food and plants for over 30 years- but online shops are entirely new territory. Please be patient with us as we figure it all out. 4) in person sales are still taking place, masks and gloves appreciated. 5) link to shop in bio 6) ✌️💚🌸

Poor man’s fertilizer for these hardy onion starts❄️

Freshly transplanted Napa cabbage, but all I see is future kimchi

This bearded beauty✨

A note about our opening for all inquiring green-brained-eager-to-plant minds✌️✨

Good to see some new faces around here 💜

A day in the life of baby ricinus plants sent to my phone from Allie working 8 greenhouses down from me. I’m going to watch this a bajillion times now, ✌️✨.

The past week we have received a wonderful amount of phone calls from our loyal customers asking the same question, will we open this Spring? Here is our response (though it’s rather long... bottomline, STILL FARMING HERE) Growing plants and food for our Upper Valley neighbors has never felt more important. Enter, Covid-19. Our job right now is to continue starting seeds, filling pots, and supporting gardeners. We are moving forward as per usual, filling the greenhouses with all the variety that you count on us to grow. Because the health and safety of our community- employees, their families, and our loyal customers- are very important to all of us at Edgewater Farm, we are adopting new practices and busy brainstorming new ways to sell plants. Curbside pick-up? Online order form? Scheduled Appts? These are all possibilities. Please be patient as we attempt to figure it all out. In the meantime, keep in touch with us through instagram, facebook, website, and email: info@edgewaterfarm.com. Just like you all, we want to go outside, work in the garden and be healthy and strong this coming growing season and everyone thereafter. Amen. And if you have not already purchased a CSA share, and you are keen to do so please reach out to jenny@edgewaterfarm.com for any questions. Joining our CSA directly supports our farm so that we can continue to grow for our community.

For the home gardener wondering what to seed and when to seed it, today seems as good a day as any for your tomatoes! And if you miss the boat on starting your own seeds, we got you covered. pictured here: my mess of seed packets that will grow into babies, that will be bumped up into packs & singles for you to purchase plant✌️🍅

Tomatoes planted, CSAers take note✌️

Just across the river from us in Windsor, VT @silo_distillery is offering this beautiful service. Never in a million years would I put hand sani and beautiful in the same sentence, but there you go. My heart explodes from their generosity and Ingenuity. The Edgewater Farm crew will now be dousing our hands in the finest alcohol. Thank you silo🙌🙌💘🙌. Please read on for more information taken from their website: SILO Distillery has always been a locally conscious company with community-driven principals. As such, we find ourselves in a unique position in this time of global unease. As producers of high-proof, neutral grain alcohol, we have a small excess of ethanol at our disposal. We realize that many folks right now have imminent concerns about supply shortages nationally. Therefore, we would like to make this resource available to our local communities. We have been able to produce 65% hand solution by combining vegetable glycerin (typically found in cosmetics and sourced from plants) and the 180-190 proof (90-95%) ethanol head cuts from our distillery. We have been utilizing these around the tasting room and production area and have made larger amounts available to some of our local food and beverage partners so they can put their guests at ease. We would like to extend this supply to our local patrons as well. This product will be available free of charge to folks who come in with up to 2 containers (rinsed lotion, shampoo or soap bottles are best). For those who do not have access to a container, we will still make this available to you in containers we will supply when we have stock. We ask that you consider donating to the donation boxes we have set up in the tasting room to pay it forward. We will only produce limited supplies of this ethanol-based solution, so we are limiting guests to up to 16 ounces total per visit. Stock piling or hoarding will not be tolerated and we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone at any time. This is an effort to spread the access to as many people as we can support while there are shortages or price-gouging prominent nationwide.

Here are 4 out of the 15 or so folks on our farm that are whole-heartedly committed to growing food for you this coming season. Join the CSA and you will help support our farm, your table, and if you read the newsletter (does anybody read the newsletter?!) your pantry. We are currently seeding plantings of onions, peppers, tomatoes, and soon brassicas while our perennial crops (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, garlic) start to wake up from their winter sleep. T-minus 3 months until we harvest. Get pumped. Be nourished. Link in bio for CSA sign up⚡️⚡️⚡️ Pick up locations include: Our farmstand in Plainfield NH @eastmannh in Grantham NH @brownsvillebutcher in Brownsville VT @opendoor_whiteriverjct in WRJ VT @b.y.u.v in WRJ Windsor rec. center in Windsor VT (📸 by @joshguss taken back in October when the corn was fresh and our friends could come hang out with us)

PSA: Spring is near. There will be plants. We will grow food and your garden will bloom.

First of the field crops reaching for the sun. Welcome baby onions, we are so happy to see you.✨

So far, the only constellation I see here are future shishito peppers. #seedingseason

A day in the life of baby ricinus plants sent to my phone from Allie working 8 greenhouses down from me. I’m going to watch this a bajillion times now, ✌️✨.

CSA WEEK 7 (a very belated post, one week late!)

August 04, 2023

p i c k l i s t

heirloom tomatoes - blueberries - lettuce - carrots - mint -

cilantro - cucumbers - kale - zucchini - jalapeno

in proper late July fury, I accidentally deleted the newsletter from week 7, the words were meh, but the recipes were *chefs kiss*

classic 2023. Let’s move onto week 8, shall we?