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The final boxes of the CSA season were filled with high summer harvests and all of the stored vegetables that I had been hoarding for use in case of a crop failure. I gave out cucumbers (until the vines died off a couple of weeks into September), eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, okra, basil and melons, as [...]
Last week was fairly similar to the two before it, but yielded even more cucumbers (six in each box) and cantaloupe (two or three in each box). When I wasn’t harvesting, I was ripping off egg-covered cucurbit leaves and pulling up old squash plants in an attempt to give those pesky bugs less of a [...]
As August comes to a close, it’s time for me to start thinking of soil tests and cover crops and leaving the farm for the winter. But it’s hard to concentrate on all of that when the house is filled with the smell of cucumbers and cantaloupe!
The cucumbers were hard to start, with seeds not [...]
The contents of this week’s box: zucchini, summer squash, eggplant, three pints cherry tomatoes, one pint heirloom tomatoes, one pint tomatillos (the first of the season), two onions, one bunch garlic, mint and okra.
Declining squash harvests are still a disappointment, but I noticed new growth all week, including the ripening of a couple of cucumbers [...]
Eight weeks down, nine left to go. It’s hard to believe that the farm has come this far! The tomato plants are still reeling from this month’s rain damage (some of them have just this week developed brown and withered leaves, which I’m hoping is a simple-to-solve case of not having enough nutrients), the squash [...]
I’ve skipped out on updating this site these past couple of weeks, but not because things at the farm have been slow. Instead, the subscriber boxes have been getting heavier and heavier, and produce has started to fill up our fridge and pile over the dining room table.
The contents of last week’s box: zucchini, summer [...]
This week was a hot one. I arrived at the farm earlier than usual on Wednesday to finish the morning’s harvest fast, but was forced to stay later than expected when I realized that a horde of harlequin bugs had started chomping up my tomatillos. I spotted the stinkbug relative and ladybug look-a-like earlier in [...]
I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of help with this week’s harvest, so filling the boxes was a breeze. The contents: lettuce heads, zucchini, summer squash, one bunch Sierra Blanca onions, one bunch rainbow chard, one bag basil and one bag herb blend, which included sage, oregano and thyme.
I still don’t have enough [...]
Low harvests led me to take last week off, but CSA deliveries were back to normal on Wednesday. The contents of this week’s box: fennel, zucchini, flat-leaf parsley, basil, arugula flowers and heads of lettuce. I thought the salad was dunzo when the weather turned hot and the plants began to bolt, but I was [...]
Another week, another round of deliveries! The contents: one sandwich-sized bag arugula, one sandwich-sized bag mixed mustard greens and kale, one snack-sized bag sugar snap peas, one bunch flat-leaf parsley, one bunch basil, one bunch spring onions and one bag edible mustard and arugula flowers.
While I wish the boxes could be bigger, I’m pleased with [...]