Hi everyone! Wow, things have really changed around here since I last wrote to you. The pace is way different - things are way slower around here these days. The big deadline is always the first hard frost and it came a little late this year at the end of October. Here’s a little update on how we wrapped up the fall and started the winter, plus info on our 2022 CSA and how to buy Good Dog Farm merch!

Fall brought more rain and the return of greens! We also got started on harvesting sweet potatoes and it was a pretty good crop. It was our last big crop to harvest for 2021, and along with that means that some of our crew wound down near the end of October.

We got our first crop of 2022 in the ground - onions! We'll have plenty of bunching onions to share next spring and summer. We planted garlic in the same field a couple of weeks later - we just wanted to wait until it gets a little cooler so that it doesn't grow too much before it gets cold.

An awesome sunset over our neighbor’s farm

We had our second annual end of season pumpkin carving around Halloween. It's a very wholesome activity and we also drink and eat good food (and candy.) It's so nice to sit around a fire and enjoy each others' jokes and company before some folks wrap up their seasons and others' hours reduce. We feel so lucky to have had such an awesome team: Casey, Lindsay, Christa, Abram and Kaiti make so much of the CSA happen each week! We feel extra grateful that most of them will be returning again next year.

Remaining outdoor greens all tucked in under row cover

Before Thanksgiving we had our first bulk harvest of beets! Field clean up also got underway. And our high tunnels are got very full of tasty greens for the winter months!

And then the frost finally came! After a boat load of rain we got our first frost, with another each night that week. So far everything that we were hoping would survive has survived, though we didn't get absolutely everything harvested that we were hoping for. We plugged away at bulk harvesting before the predicted low 20s temperatures around 11/18. We had a bit of a slow down in pace for a minute there but now we had once last push to get everything inside into coolers!

Testing out the weight of a Napa cabbage

Planting more indoor lettuce on the last day of the main season

Then it was the last week of our regular season CSA! It felt like it was just spring with transplants and sweet peas on our minds, and yet here with are with possible snow flurries slated for this week. This has been a huge year of growth for us, and you stuck with us the whole time! We can't wait until next year when we have our systems refined and we can grow even more produce! In the mean time we'll be growing vegetables for our December and Winter share members, catching up on projects around the farm, continuing to work on our old farmhouse, visiting with friends and family and watching TV!!

We have merch for sale for the first time in quite a while! Everything is printed to order and shipped to you. This system is super helpful to us as a small farm biz! Shirts tend to run small, fyi! Check out what we've got - click the shirt picture below.

Click the shirt to go to our merch store!

CSA hare sign ups are also open for 2022! You can read all about how our shares work at our website and you can sign up here.

Thanks for following along! Wishing you a warm and cozy holiday season and a happy new year.