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:
