Current Newsletter:
Week #24: November 5, 2007
Organizational skills and leadership are two qualities one needs no matter what career or life choices you make. Even geese need these qualities. I was sitting on the porch enjoying a cup of coffee very early Sunday morning; Cindy was still sleeping and only the geese and I were out. A flock of 40 or more flew overhead and I heard them before I saw them.
Week #23: October 29, 2007
What a great turnout for our Fall picnic on Sunday! Thank you all for coming and sharing your day with us. The weather co-operated beautifully and we had the prettiest day that we've had in several years for the picnic. After tomorrow's pickup, you have one more share for the regular season.
Week #22: October 22, 2007
I hope you are all ready to come to the picnic this Sunday here on the farm at 2 p.m. We're looking forward to seeing you all and letting you see the fields and crops we've talked about all season.
Week #21: October 12, 2007
It certainly doesn't feel like October, with the record setting heat, but one look at the calendar alerts us to the fact that our season is coming to an end soon. Many of you have been asking when your last pickup day is, so I thought I would send reminders so you could mark your calendar for your last share pickups.
Week #20: October 5, 2007
I had a nice response to the directory and will start on it next week. I am waiting on a few who requested time to get their description of their business ready. Several of you have sent in suggestions to be included in the directory, so I thought I would pass these along to you, as well as give those of you who are still thinking about it, another chance to send in your information.
Week #19: September 28, 2007
I spent part of the day Tuesdy plowing the greens that will soon be in your shares. Even though we are in the first days of fall, it was still 95 degrees and 18 degrees above average for the year! The weeds seem to love the heat and are doing nicely, so I thought I would put an end to at least some of them.
Week #18: September 23, 2007
After four years with the Delvins, Cindy finally let me-the eldest and most decrepit crew member- escape off the farm for an afternoon each week to deliver your shares to The Turnip Truck in East Nashville, and am I loving it! I was reluctant to drive the big Izuzu up the interstate, especially the I 40/I 65 section so close to rush hour traffic.
Week #17: September 17, 2007
We actually got rain!! Thanks to you all, our prayers were answered with 2 inches of beautiful, gentle rain! For days we have watched it rain all around us; a mile or less away would have rainfall of 2 to 4 inches and we could only lament and hope and pray that we would finally be blessed with moisture.
Week #16: September 9, 2007
It's pretty sad when you consider 95 degrees a cool day!! This morning found us in the pepper field early with a fog receding into the woods as the temperatures rose.
Week #15: September 1, 2007
We're back from Seattle this week where the temperatures ranged from the high of 58 to the low of 40. We even saw some curious liquid falling from the sky! Our son Eric identified it as something called rain!!
Week #14: August 25, 2007
This evening as we were putting our son to bed I listened as my husband read several bedtime stories to Ryder. His favorite books are anything by Dr. Seuss, especially Green Eggs and Ham; a book I can recite from memory at any given moment. As I watched Hank Jr. and Ryder I am amazed at how much Ryder has grown.
Week #13: August 17, 2007
Today marks the 14th day in a row with temperatures over 100 degrees! The thermometer here reached 102 at 1:00 and the warehouse temperatures are not much better! We're irrigating around the clock, seven days a week to keep the vegetables alive, but the brutal sun blast of heat all day really takes a toll on us and the plants!
Week #12: August 5, 2007
I spent the better part of last Wednesday in the warehouse cleaning vegetables, assembling shares, and dreaming my dream of having a farm school one day. Lesson plans on science, ethics, and poetry practically write themselves when dirt is packed under your fingernails and you catch the smell of freshly harvested cantaloupe, still warm from the early morning sun.
Week #11: July 30, 2007
As you all know the tomatoes are coming in very nicely! One of our members, Frances, your fellow CSA member sent me a recipe that is so delicious, I thought it would be a great time to include lots of the Roma and salad tomatoes in your share.
Week #10: July 23, 2007
As you all know the tomatoes are coming in very nicely! One of our members, Frances, your fellow CSA member sent me a recipe that is so delicious, I thought it would be a great time to include lots of the Roma and salad tomatoes in your share.
Week #9: July 14, 2007
There's a blanket that falls in the cool of the evening that doesn't warm, but brings a decidedly cool and serene feeling to the land. I love this time of the day.
Week #8: July 7, 2007
The heat rising and the dust mounting, June 13th on Delvin Farms could be best described by reading the opening pages of Grapes of Wrath. If not for miles of toil-laden rows of irrigation, all would be lost in a bowl of dust.
Week #7: July 1, 2007
The Fourth of July is celebrated with picnics, family get togethers and for some, fireworks. It is a time to be thankful and celebrate the freedoms we are so fortunate to enjoy.
Week #6: June 30, 2007
What a welcome the cooler temperatures and cloudy skies were this week!! We actually got an inch of much needed rain on Friday evening and it just changed the whole look of the farm!
More News in the Press:
Article in the Diocese of Nashville Tennessee Register.
Williamson County Master Garden 2nd Annual summer camp field trip to Delvin Farms.
The Nashville City Paper. Profile of Delvin Farms CSA.
