June 29

Box Contents:

3 Sweet Corn, bicolor

1 lb Early Girl Tomatoes

1 lb Green Beans

1 bskt Cherry Tomatoes

1 lb Santa Rosa Plums

Field Notes: A spike in temperatures last Friday increased our irrigation sets. Luckily this week, the temperatures are much cooler so the harvest conditions are much better.  

Box Notes: We are so excited to be harvesting sweet corn in June. This is our earliest sweet corn crop ever! It looks and taste incredible. Mild March weather urged us to plant the summer crops earlier than usual. This has been a fruitful farming decision because we are seeing many crops come in early. On some ears of corn, there may be a small amount of tip damage from corn worm activity. Do not fear, it’s organic corn so this happens, more so in late summer corn. To remove the tip, after shucking the corn, simply cut the tip off the ear.

Your cherry tomato variety will be either Sun Gold (orange) or Esterina (yellow). We’ve been growing the sun golds for over 2 decades. It’s our most popular cherry tomato variety. Our favorite seed company Johnny’s Selected Seeds describes them this way: “Exceptionally sweet, bright tangerine-orange cherry tomatoes leave everyone begging for more.” This is our 3rd year growing the esterina cherry tomato variety. They are also a sweet tomato variety that’s indeterminate, meaning the plants continue to flower until frost, producing a perpetual harvest of the beautiful tomato clusters.

Webstore Updates: For the jam makers and fruit lovers out there: Santa Rosa Plums are available for $35 per 10 lb case. There are about 50 cases of Santa Rosa plums available. The plums are grown here at Riverdog Farm and are CCOF-Certified Organic. The plum trees are 20 years old. We planted them when we bought the property in 2000. They are in the field next to the farm office, packing shed, and greenhouses.  The trees are producing beautiful fruit this year. There are 10 hams from our pastured pork available. The hams are smoked and cured at Roundman’s in Ft. Bragg. The chickens and hogs are raised using certified organic methods. The meat is not labeled as organic because we process the meat in facilities that aren’t certified organic. We also have pickling cucumbers available: 22 lbs for $45.

Riverdog Farm has an active Instagram account. Find us via our Instagram handle: riverdogfarm. On our account, we share images of the crops, farming, re-posts of your farm fixings posts and provide market/CSA updates.

When you pick up your CSA box, you may transfer the contents into your own bags and leave the box, flattened please, at the site for pick up by the driver the following week. Whether you leave the box at the site or take it home to return the following week, please unfold (collapse) your box carefully to keep the end flaps from tearing. Slowly, bend the two end panels towards the outer ends first then collapse (flatten) the whole box by gently folding the rest.

Give your account 48 hours to update when making changes to your account. For example, when changing your account status from permanent hold to active by charging your credit card, the status may take up to 48 hours to update. The auto-pay option button is at the bottom of your account page. Please click it for auto-renewal of your CSA subscription and to ensure uninterrupted weekly veggie box deliveries.

Please check your CSA account for the most up to date information such as your delivery schedule.

• Keeping it safe: with the Shelter-in-Place order still in effect in Yolo County and throughout California, we continue to implement our COVID-19 prevention protocol on the farm per the CDC and Cal-OSHA recommended best practices. Prevention measures include: required face covering and glove wearing, 6 foot distancing in the workplace, employees are not allowed to work with symptoms of COVID-19 illness, increased frequency of hand-washing/hand sanitizing, and increased sanitizing of the packing shed high touch areas including stainless steel wash tubs, packing tables and walk-in cooler door handles.

• Reminder: So your subscription continues uninterrupted, please make sure your credit card on file is up to date on your CSA account. For those who need to end the CSA subscription before your deliveries end, you MUST contact the farm through email to request cancellation. You may put your account on a DELIVERY hold if you will be gone for periods of time. If you wish to cancel your account, you may email the farm and we can cancel it for you.

Delivery hold” is used for short periods of time – you use this option 48 hours in advance to schedule the deliveries you are unable to pick up.

Permanent Hold” is used for long periods of time – you use this option if you are gone for extended periods of time and wish to resume your account when you get back. You must reinstate your status back to active when you return in order to resume deliveries.

Cancel” is used to delete membership details, this means you would need to re-enter delivery status, subscriptions, and credit card information when you resume the Riverdog Farm CSA.