What’s in the box?
Yellow beans, Chinese (napa) cabbage, winter squash, sweet peppers, beets, salad turnips, arugula, shishito peppers, garlic.
Extras – hot peppers.
- We don’t often grow yellow beans. But you asked for them, so here they are. (We expected them to be ready for the final week of summer CSA but they didn’t quite make it.) This variety is called “Gold Rush”, a very fitting name – they are a bright & beautiful bean with a great flavour.
- Check out this Chinese cabbage! “Green rocket” is a tall, cylindrical, crisp cabbage, with a delicous almost sweet taste, suitable for eating fresh in salads & slaws. They are also great in stir-fries or boiled, steamed, braised, grilled or fermented (especially for kimchi).
- Choose another winter squash this week.
- After dropping their blossoms and taking a break during the heat of the summer, some of our sweet pepper plants are blooming and producing fruit again. We’re happy about that! It remains to be seen if the temperatures will stay warm enough for them to continue ripening.
- Beets, salad turnips, arugula, shishito peppers, and garlic complete this Thanksgiving CSA box.
- Our hot pepper plants are finally ripening an abundance of spicy fruit. They are available on the extra table for those who would like some.
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Around the farm this week …
This is how Rosemary has been spending her days recently.
She sleeps all day because she’s out all night – hunting, or partying, or ?
We’re a little jealous.
We would also like to be sleeping our days away – but our tiredness is from working, not partying 🙂
Our 2025 season is winding down & coming to an end …
There are 4 weeks of fall CSA – but because we have many less members than our summer CSA, it feels much easier – and 2 farmers’ market days remaining.
We were fortunate to have 1 of our summer workers stay on throughout September. He picked the squash and did a lot of the fall clean-up work that we usually struggle with. That was great! We have more energy left now to finish up.
Our last vegetables were transplanted into the field today – a few rows of lettuce mix and some arugula. Will they mature in time? Maybe or maybe not, but if the warm fall temperatures continue then we will have fresh salad greens for a long time.
There are still plenty of vegetables growing including salad greens, beets, beans, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower …
Even eggplant!
The fall flowers are still beautiful!
The ducks (and chickens) love it when I refill their pool.
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