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A post on the season’s last three subscriber boxes is forthcoming, but first: tomatoes! I grew both cherries and heirlooms this summer, several varieties of each. The soft and sweet garden peach stood out as a favorite of mine, but the subscribers fell in love with the cherries. Several people told me that the snackable [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]