Hello Everyone! This is Matthew writing. For those of you whom I have not met, I arrived here about two months ago from Yellow Springs, Ohio. My background in environmental education led naturally to an interest in sustainable food production, and Serenbe Farms seemed like an ideal setting to learn and grow. (Of course I also love to eat fresh vegetables.)

It´s hard to believe this is only the second week of CSA distribution. The farm is almost in full swing as our green house becomes emptier and our beds almost full. This is a huge week for lettuce. It is really some of the most beautiful I have ever seen − from the rich green of the deer tongue to the deep purple of the merlot. Our other lesser-known greens such as mizuna, Tokyo bekana, komatsuna, and tat soi (as recently featured by Chef Nicolas at the Blue-Eyed Daisy) are equally beautiful and delicious. Chef Tony also gave our Arugula a lavish presentation at the Farmhouse last week, and our D´Avignon radishes and broccoli raab were delectable accompaniments to the Sunday Mothers´ Day luncheon.

We spotted the first head of broccoli at the end of last week, and the weekend´s extremely welcome rain has nourished many more into being. Our peas, which were just beginning to produce last week, yielded almost twenty pounds this morning. We are eagerly awaiting our first harvest of squash and zucchini, both of which are looking incredibly vibrant and healthy with their young fruit and vivid yellow flowers.

All of us at the farm would like to extend our thanks to Hillary White and Brock Kehoe for helping us to plant leeks, tomatoes, fennel, and flowers yesterday. It was an extremely productive day thanks to their efforts.

We hope you will be pleased to find a pound of sweet onions as part of your share this week. This is our first harvest, so the onions should be particularly sweet and juicy. Because they are so new, we did not cure this batch. While we hope many of you will enjoy them right away, if you do not, please refrigerate them! Onions are a good source of vitamin C and sodium free.