Like our fine feathered friend, we need to fatten up before winter. Gorge on good food, fast while the pickings are slim...
I go 7 days a week starting sometime in March until tomorrow, and though I hardly consider it work, the winter break is welcome. We are most fortunate to live along the 41st parallel--our four seasons are nearly exactly even in length, so that just when I tire of one season, another moves in with its particular joys and extremes.
Since the very cold and late spring, weather has been as close to perfect as a farmer could ask for, and it has continued late into fall. I hear predictions of a very cold winter, but somehow I doubt it. Luckily, I can edit that last line at any time.
Thanks so much to all for your support. I hope you enjoyed the year as much as I did, and that you'll consider signing on again for next year. Our main growing area a mile up the road, after 5 years of work, has become a very fine small farm. We are happy to have a productive chicken flock again. The asparagus field is monstrous. The baby blueberries are coming along.
In this week's share:
Baby beets with greens
Turnips with greens
Spinach (only 1 bag per member please!!!!!!!!! Very tight supply!)
Arugula
Red Mizuna
Chard OR Kale OR Collard Greens
Potatoes--monster yukon golds!!!!!!!!
Green tomatoes
Apples (take 4, including 1 heirloom)
Heirloom apple alert!!!!!! From Red Jacket Orchards we have Baldwin, Golden Russet, Keepsake, and Northern Spy. Wow!!! These are fantastic, different, fascinating apples. Take 1 for the share, buy many more if you like them!!!! They are all good keeping apples, and only improve with time.
At the stand: grass fed ground beef, last of the jerusalem artichokes, plenty of juices, milk, cocolate milk, and tortillas!! The tortillas freeze nicely.
Thanks!!!!!
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