Wild Roots Farm Update ~Winter CSA Week #5

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​I hope that you have all stayed safe and warm in this wild Winter weather. I returned home from my road trip this past Monday right before the ice hit the Portland area. What should have been a 7 hour drive home turned into a 24 hour slog thanks to ice that hit the Eugene area. I, along with thousands of others, literally SLEPT in my vehicle on Interstate 5 for about 8 hours on Sunday night. It was wild! I'm so happy to be home though, despite the weather. Just to be back in my own kitchen and bed is heavenly.

The strong winds whipped the plastic completely off one of our tunnels (sad!)

​I made a run out to the farm Monday because it's really hard to be away from it for three weeks and it felt like the tundra (or so what I imagine it to feel like). During the past week, there were gusts up to 80mph with sustained winds in the 30's. Temperatures dropped to around 10 degrees and did not get above 40 for almost a week. That's what I consider to be a serious deep freeze. The farm looked fine when I left on Monday afternoon and I felt ok about things. But then the ice came, along with more cold wind and temperatures. When Stephen and I returned to the farm Thursday, everything was under a sheet of ice and things did not look so great. We lost plastic on one of our high tunnels - thankfully not the one with our late Winter greens. When we checked in on our Winter squash and potatoes in our shipping container, we discovered they were all frozen. ALL of them. Mother nature can be brutal.

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