This is the final week of our summer CSA for 2023.

The 17 weeks have gone by quickly. We have enjoyed meeting and getting to know everyone.

Thank you for joining us this season. We appreciate your support of our farm, the confidence you have in us to supply your fresh produce, and your commitment to coming out to the farm (or the market) each week to pick up your box.

What’s in the box?

Winter squash, fall radish, salad greens, green beans, kohlrabi, sweet peppers,

edamame, onions, garlic.

Extras – beets, hot peppers …

• It is not a good year for squash on our farm. We decided to grow only the large heirloom squash and a few other unusual kinds – the ones other farms don’t grow. They turned out mostly ok. We had a neighbour grow the common squash varieties for us – but he had a crop failure. The weather this summer wasn’t great for squash – it prefers hot & dry conditions, which we did not have. But we were able to buy some, and together with the few we grew there will be a squash in the box this week.
• Fall radishes are large, beautiful and delicious. They have the same flavour as spring radishes – but slightly stronger & sharper. Slice them thinly into salads or slaw, or roast them along with other vegetables. Check for recipes at http://www.cookwithwhatyouhave.com. (Look under daikon or watermelon radishes.) Choose from 3 colours – pink, white or purple. Wrapped in a plastic bag in the fridge they can keep for a month or more.

• Salad greens – probably lettuce, beans, kohlrabi, sweet peppers, edamame, onions & garlic complete this final box of the season.

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Around the farm this week …

Still lots of vegetables to pick for fall CSA and the farmers’ market …

… but more empty fields on the farm,

and yet more seedlings to be planted.

At Georgetown Farmers’ Market on Saturday.

Cutting down the last row of fruit trees remaining on the farm – sweet cherries that we left only as a windbreak. (Anybody need some good firewood?)

Sage enjoying the fresh, just-delivered manure pile.

Looking for treasure on the train tracks!

• Please recycle your CSA box (or drop it off at the farm if you’re passing by).

• Details for CSA 2024 will be emailed to you in late January.

• For those who joined our Fall CSA, it begins next Thursday. (sign up for fall CSA is now closed)