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Final week of the season. And what a week! The box was so full we had to add a bag on top to hold all the produce! What was included this week? Well, we had beets, carrots, broccoli, potatoes, bell peppers, three types of winter squash, lots of garlic, leeks, shallots, bok choi, daikon radishes, kohlrabi, radishes, brussels sprouts and kale. That is one nice thing about being a member of a pure CSA. You get all the produce we grow!
Equally important is the deadline for the Early Bird VeggieShares for next season. Sign-up by the end of the month and get next year’s veggies at this year’s prices. See the order from or contact me for more details. And spread the word to friends and neighbors! This is a tough week to be a newsletter writer. There isn’t much to say! The season is almost over.
Nearing the end of the season but the produce keeps coming on strong! This week we are adding leeks to the mix. Plus there are 3 # of potatoes in the box. Hmm, maybe potato leek soup on this cold fall day? Plus there are 1.5 # of carrots, six peppers, a bunch of radishes, salad mix, three winter squash (spaghetti, acorn and carnival), garlic, brussels sprouts, cabbage, kohhlrabi and broccoli. First of all I want to thank everyone who came out to the farm to help plant garlic. I felt it was a wonderful time and wish more of you could have enjoyed it with us. Since I realize you all can’t, I thought I would put together a photo montage of the event to show you what you missed: Here are some of the tomatoes that survived the two frosts. They were delicious!
We had some wonderful smokey blue cheese from CheeseShare
Here is this week’s FamilyShare. It is a great example of the benefit of joining a pure CSA farm. This week the broccoli is coming on strong. So what does a pure CSA farm do? We give it out to our members! Six gorgeous, large heads of broccoli this week! Farms with other sales outlets would give their members a few heads and sell the rest through their farm stand, farmers’ market booth or wholesale it to a co-op. Not our idea of a CSA.
I make take credit for all the work done here on the farm but that is certainly not warranted. For us to feed 300+ people it takes a crew of dedicated workers to plant, weed, harvest, wash and
In addition we are taking orders for FruitShare for the remainder of this year. We will have four boxes of fruit – 1 in late October, 1 in November and 2 in December. Use the same order form to add Fruit! Don’t keep us a secret! Please spread the
We are transitioning even more into the fall produce! This week we have 2#s of fingerling potatoes, 1.5# of carrots, an acorn squash, a Napa cabbage, a head of broccoli (more to come!), tomatillo salsa kit (including hot pepper and cilantro), bell pepper, radishes, onions, garlic, bok choi, salad mix and parsley. Another tasty box of veggies!
The big event of last week was the harvesting of the honey. Dave — my bee partner — came over to assist. It is good to have someone who knows bees and has the right equipment. The first step in harvesting the honey is to remove the bees from the honey supers. The honey supers are the top most boxes on the hives. During the course of the season as the lower boxes are filled with bee |
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