Hey everyone! I thought I'd post really quick about what we've been up to this week and what we'll have at the market tomorrow. We've been busy planting corn, beans, squash, okra, melons, black eyed peas, more cilantro, and sweet potatoes. We found out that planting sweet potatoes actually goes very fast. We were a little scared when we ordered 500 of them, but it only took us 2 hours to plant! Here is our biggest, tallest, best corn we have for now. It is a super-sweet white variety, and I just loved how it looks blowing in the wind. We pulled up our drip irrigation tape from the last round of peas, beets, and turnips so we could reuse it on the corn and melons. Below is our jerry-rigged tape spool on a bale spike.... It worked alright, but we'll have to come up with something a little more fancy next time. It took a lot of work to do it this way. 
At the market tomorrow we will have tons of green beans. They are sweet and tasty- I was eating them all day in the field. We'll have beets (both the Chioggia and Detroit Red varieties), Russian Kale, red salad mix (best lettuce ever!), dill and cilantro. We just found out that dill is super healthy and awesome. It tastes great in many dishes, and it is especially tasty with fish. Dill has lots of calcium, magnesium, and iron as well as cancer-fighting compounds. Check it out here WHFoods Dill. Find us tomorrow at the Brookside market: 41st and Peoria from 8am to noon. -Chelsea
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