september 21st, 2022
What’s in your share?
Cilantro*
Carrots
Heirloom Tomatoes
Cherry Tomatoes OR Shishito Peppers
Kale
Peppers
Red Storage Onions*
*Storage Onions - you may notice that we’re distributing storage onions weekly. These onions have been cured for several weeks, drying the outer layers so that they store for months. They can for months if stored correctly. Storage Onion Page
*Cilantro - Take off the twist tie, trim the ends if necessary, and store in an open jar of water in the fridge.
Dreamy bok choy growing in a tunnel.
Checked up on all the fall brassicas this week. Pictured from left to right: broccoli, cabbage, napa cabbage, and kohlrabi.
This may be one of the last summery shares as we move into Fall tomorrow! We gave you all the salsa fixins, so grab some chips and enjoy the tastes of summer while they last. We’re prepping the final beds of the season this week, and almost have everything planted for November. We’re seeing the winter squash leaves die back to reveal the fruits ripening! They will be harvested soon and go into shares once they are cured. All of the potatoes will be dug by the end of the week (hopefully) and greens are coming back! We have lots of salad mix and head lettuce planted for y’all, bok choy, cabbage, and maybe even some spinach. Spinach is, without a doubt, the hardest crop for us to grow during the main season. It hates warm weather, so hopefully we can get a stand of it before the season ends! Our greenhouses are the home to all of the fall crops as we transition away from tomatoes and peppers, with the beds in the field getting harvested and put to rest for the winter.
If you’ve been eating our eggs, you may notice that the yolks have been getting darker! The hens have been feasting on all the tomatoes and peppers that we grade out. We loooooove being able to give the chickens such tasty treats, because they decompose it much faster than it decomposes in our compost pile, and we don’t have to move wheelbarrows of compost around! The chickens have been in our front yard this season, which is not our long term plan. This is because we are currently trying to establish a perennial pasture grass in our backfield, which will be the future home for chickens. We will be able to rotate them weekly so that they have fresh grass daily and access to the grubs and crickets and other insects that they instinctually forage.