Bluebird Meadows 2009 CSA: Week 16

Greetings CSA members! We've had a great week of wildlife spottings here at Bluebird Meadows. Harry the Heron is a regular at our pond and every now and then he lets me take a picture of him from a distance; never a good picture, but maybe in the future when we get more comfortable he'll pose for us. There has also been a couple sightings of a white egret hanging out at the pond which is very irregular. It is a big egret and it's odd to see one so far from the marshes of the east. We've loved seeing him though and we hope he found some morsels to eat while at our farm. I also spotted a little pack of wild turkeys Friday evening as we were leaving the farm. What a fascinating bird! Quite as mice and so strange looking. Oh so close to being our national bird due to its intelligence (Benjamin Franklin was their big advocate), but I guess we went with a much more fierce national bird, the eagle. Stuart wants me to mention that the wild turkey is also his alma mater's mascot, the fighting gobblers of Virginia Tech, and he thinks they're quite fierce. We'll leave it at that :)

The farm is doing great. It's getting desperate for a good mowing and some weed-eating, but on the plus side our vegetables are looking fantastic. We have picked some of the nicest red and yellow peppers we've ever grown. We hope everyone is enjoying the sweet peppers; they are loaded with vitamins and can easily be eaten by themselves as a healthy snack. As for the tomatoes, this is sadly the last week for our big slicing tomatoes. Next season we plan to have some big slicers in our last planting, so hopefully we'll have them for a few weeks longer next year.