Hi everybody! My goodness, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been in touch! I’ve been busy hanging out with Annie while Bryan and the crew have been hard at work growing food for our CSA members and wholesale customers. I wanted to share a few pictures and updates before it gets much later, so here are some snippets of our sweet summer!
Here’s Annie enjoying one of her first foods - Swiss chard! It’s been so amazing, almost impossible to wrap our brains around, Annie eating food that we grew here on our farm. It’s been of the sweetest parts of bringing her up on a farm so far, especially since when she’s on the ground she only wants to eat (and choke on) grass.
We grew a staggering amount of lettuce early this summer! We ended up with a lettuce head gobblin on the farm, but it was all worth it!
We’ve been dabbling in growing flowers this summer for our CSA members. Our Assistant Manager Kaiti has been making beautiful bouquets from just a few beds and it’s been such a joy for us all!
We were horrified by the wildfire smoke days. It made the world feel scary and broken. We did our best to keep the workdays short during those difficult days.
While this season’s weather has had extreme heat and periods of dry, there were also some very beautiful days. The drought early in the season took a toll on our potato crop and some of our winter squash, but we’re shaping up to have an incredible sweet potato year!
We also had an awesome tomato season!!
Here’s a fall field of radicchio and lettuce - August was a huge push of planting amidst extremely hot weather. Summer crops start to get pretty weedy and overgrown at this point in the season, so seeing a fresh batch of tidy, new plants in the ground really hits the spot!
Annie loves adventuring around the farm in her stroller and frame pack. Dress code - diaper only.
Here’s a squash harvest action shot - we hurried to pick these up during the extremely hot weather when they were getting too toasty in the field.
As farmers, we're always planting many months ahead of a harvest, so if you can believe it, we're already seeding lots of baby greens in our high tunnels! They all need to grow and get established before November 15th, which is about the last day that we have 10 hours of daylight. From then on plants won't grow quickly enough, so early fall is always a critical time for winter growing! Speaking of winter, we wanted to remind you about our Winter CSA which runs December 2023 - March 2024 this year (no shares the last two weeks of December, though)! You can learn all about our Winter CSA here.
Next time we’ll have lots of pictures of beautiful fall produce to share, so stay tuned!