Hi friends,

This week, I come to you through a flurry of seed catalogs, planning spreadsheets and big, fluffy summer dreams. As we prepare for our summer planting (yes, summer. While the rest of the country hunkers down for another round of snow storms. Shout out to Boston for setting a new yearly snow record!), I am greedy for mid-July when our fields explode in monster brandywine tomatoes, purple blush eggplants and midnight purple basil.

For now, however, we are all marveling at the rapid retreat of the chill and the onset of spring. For me, the change in seasons is most exemplified by the explosion of super sweet sugar snap peas that have charmed all who know the farm. Harvesting snap peas is a tricky business because it is time consuming. Time consuming because for every three peas that you bag, you must, just must, eat one. These fat little pods crunch in your mouth and the round peas get sweeter and sweeter as the pod ages. So, as any child who has spent time daydreaming in the afternoon pea patch can tell you, the fatter the pod, the sweeter the pop!