Sorry this post is coming so late. I had to leave town rather unexpectedly for a family matter and was not sure what produce would end up being in the shares this week. So glad to come home and find everything taken care of and that everything was harvested as planned.
In your share this week:
- Salad Mix
- Sweet Walla Walla Onions
- Carrots
- French Fillet Beans
- Red Norland Potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Bell Pepper - for Jackson people who missed out last week,
- Hungarian Hot Wax Pepper
- Fennel
- Zucchini
- Summer Squash - only for half the CSA, other half next week?
- Cucumber
- Italian Flat Leaf Parsley
- Red Table Beets
- Cauliflower
From the list above you can see the farm is in full harvest mode. In fact, there are still a few crops we are only beginning to harvest for the first time this season. There's a lot of food out in our fields and greenhouses and we fully expect this CSA season to go out with full abundant shares. We are loving this mild, warm fall weather!
We have made a conscious decision to change the way we harvest, clean and package a few of our crops for the rest of the season. Some veggies, like carrots and onions, can be a quick harvest for the CSA if we take a little less time cleaning and sorting them perfectly. We think that extra time is better spent towards harvesting more food. So the onions this week will still have some dirty skins on them. The carrots will be quickly washed and baged instead of nicely bunched (there will even be a few "ugly" ones in the bag that need extra scrubbing or peeling). It's a trade off - a little more work needed on the end of the CSA members at home in trade for more produce in your weekly CSA share. FYI: We will continue to maintain our high standard of double washing the salad greens.
Other news around the farm:
- Shain is preparing a new section of ground for us to plant next year's garlic crop.
- Now that the farmers markets are over, we will be able to start working on projects like weeding, cleaning old plants out of the greenhouses, pulling up drip tape, etc.
- We finally finished digging up all the potatoes. Shain says the overall yield was good considering the cooler weather we had all season. Using black plastic mulch (to warm up the soil and block out weeds) was the trick.
Have a great week & ENJOY your veggies!
Tara
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