Finally the sun is shining! We are so happy to see the sun and have a
little taste of Indian summer. It really boosts spirits at the farm. We
did have a pretty good frost this past week and the crew was busy
covering the tender greens. The frosty mornings create a shift in our
harvest routine a bit. Throughout the season - especially in the hot
summer months, we are racing to harvest the tender greens - salad mix,
chard, arugula, spinach, before the sun gets up and heats them up. Now
we have to harvest these items the afternoon before distributions so we
aren't trying to
cut them in the morning with the frost on them. The greens can hold up
in a frost as long as you are careful with them and let them warm up a
bit. These sunny warm days are a blessing for fall greens. The more sun
and heat they
get, the longer into the final weeks they'll be in the share.
This
week's pics: Fennel harvest. Beets in the field. This picture tells a
lot about the farm right now. You can see that we've plowed in all
around this patch of beets that we still have to harvest. We're trying
to get as much ground as possible in cover crops ahead of the cold
weather...
Here's what we'll be harvesting this week:
potatoes, onions, peppers, beets, carrots, lettuce, kale, garlic, winter squash
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