We had our first frost of the season overnight and this morning.

This is later then usual – 3 weeks later than last year.

Then it was a beautiful sunny & cool fall day.

It was quite a heavy frost. The ground was white – roofs too – and the truck windshield had to be scraped.

The vegetables looked beautiful!

By mid-morning the sun had burned the frost away and all was good – no harm done to any of the vegetables remaining in the fields.

What’s in the box?

Chinese broccoli, salad turnips, cabbage, salad greens, green onions, sweet peppers, squash …

• Broccoli was a surprise in the box last week. This week it is Chinese broccoli also called flowering broccoli. The purple stems with green leaves are succulent, tender and have a mildly spicy flavour. Enjoy them in a salad, or gently stir fry or sautee them.

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Around the farm this week …

The dahlias were stunning this morning, the blooms edged in frost!

But by lunch they looked like this. Now I can mow them down, dig up the tubers and store them until planting time next spring.

But the dahlias along the barn were unscathed.

And the sunflowers didn’t seem to mind the frost at all.

Thank you for being a part of our fall CSA!

We hope to see everyone next spring. Details of CSA 2024 will be out in late January.