After two months of drought, it finally rained and the flowers–and the farmer–are happy.

This week’s share featured a new cultivar of asclepias or “blood flower” that’s a beautiful orangy-yellow, and monarda or “bee balm.” The bee balm is one of  my favorites and only blooms for a few weeks in July.  The bees really love it, which is a good reason to pick it on a cloudy day when they’re not swarming around.

This was an exciting harvest development:

Baby birds!! A nest full of eggs in the rudbekia is now full of baby birds.

Here’s the full set of photos from this week’s harvest:

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Pistil Farm’s sunflowers are in full bloom!

Three varieties of sunflowers were included in this week’s Bay Ride and Williamsburg CSA flower shares: Firecracker, Zebulon and Pro-Cut yellow lite. They’re all hybrid sunflowers, meaning that they’re the first generation of the cross breeding of two different varieties. The advantage of hybrid sunflowers is that they’re more vigorous, highly productive and uniform. That might be boring for a home gardener, but for a flower farmer it’s ideal.

The Greenwood Heights members received mixed bouquets featuring scabiosa, one of my favorite flowers.

Next Saturday we’re planning to make our debut at the Brooklyn Flea! Hope you’ll come to visit?

Here’s some photos of our harvest and the bouquets.

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