One thing I really love about our kind of small scale, market farming is how the farm changes – seasonally for sure, but also monthly and even weekly.

Crops are planted, they grow, are harvested and often something else takes their place. Things are never static. It makes it very interesting!

Here’s an example – zucchini, cabbages & sunflowers – in June, August and today. Only the cabbages remain.

Or this vegetable patch – 1st planting in early June and ready for harvest at the end of that month.

Here are the same beds, replanted in early August, and today, ready for picking.

Now it is early September and more & more beds and whole fields are harvested and empty.

Some will continue to be replanted for our fall CSA crops.

Others will not be replanted again this season (except to a fall cover crop which will “cover” the soil and protect it over the winter from erosion).

Fall brings a whole new look to the farm – again!

I love it!

What’s in the box?

Cabbage, carrots, fresh herbs, lettuce, tomatoes, sweet peppers, green onions, blackberries.

Extras – beets.

• The first of the fall cabbages are ready – mostly green, but also a few red heads are available. (Our fall CSA will include more red & green cabbage.)

• There will be another bunch of carrots in the box this week.

• The choices for fresh herbs will include basil, cilantro, dill …
• We are picking 3 kinds of lettuce this week – our salad mix, mini romaine and some beautiful summer crisp heads. Lettuce does not do well in the extreme heat we are experiencing these days so we are not sure which kind will make it into the box this week.
• The tomato patch is looking poor. We have been harvesting tomatoes for 2 months now, and the plants are weary & showing disease. The good news is that there are still some good plants producing good fruit. Enjoy them while they last!

• Sweet peppers, green onions and blackberries complete the share.
• Extras this week – beets.

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Around the farm this week…

Another planting of mini-romaine lettuce.

Labor Day Monday – an extremely hot & humid day – was celebrated in various ways around the farm …