Fall Greens
After a wet and rainy summer, we are incredibly thankful for the “August Weather” in September. Activities range from resetting fields by removing summer crops, tearing out no longer producing crops from greenhouses, while also planting greens and scallions for fall and winter harvest, and erecting Caterpillar tunnels at the Oxbow and finishing up Greenhouse 10 here at the farm. Tim has been busy flipping compost piles and we have begun accepting orders for fall compost deliveries.
Farmers use many different methods to direct seed fields, from tractor seeders, cover crop seeders that drill the seed into the ground or spread the seed in a field. For greens there are tractor seeders that will drop 20-30 or even more rows at one time and then there are manual seeders that drop anywhere from 1 - 10 rows. We have landed on the earthway seeder to plant all of our greens, scallions, cilantro, carrots, and beets. Sometimes we use it for cover crops, beans, and peas as well. We pack greens into a bed requiring many back and forths and steps taken, however it has proved tried and true for us. Sam got his steps this past week planting spinach and lettuce.
Sam planting lettuce and spinach this past week with the earthway seeder. Obviously the video was sped up a bit!
GH9 greens earlier in the summer
Garden 5 Greens!
Garden 1 cilantro
Evrald in the GH6N Scallions
These two CAT tunnels are used for crops. We tarped and uncovered the one on the left after a spring/summer crop of scallions. The one on the right is home to our swiss chard. The CAT tunnels are great for crops, animal shelters, or equipment protection.
Asoka (not in the picture) welcomed a baby boy this past week. She has been an incredibly attentive momma, Archie and Asoka are doing great!
Woodland Community School is back in session for the 2024-2025 school year. CHILDREN AND PARENTS MAY BE STILL IN AND AROUND THE DRIVEWAY WHEN PICKUP BEGINS, PLEASE BE CAREFUL NAVIGATING THE PARKING LOT.
Pickup
Come anytime between 3 pm and 6 pm to choose your share on the day you chose when you signed up, so either Monday or Thursday.
Please bring your own bags or box to gather your choices.
If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your
Coffee, Eggs, Pork sausage and Flowers!
Remember to contact us in advance if you will be unable to pick up on Thursday, so that we can store your share in our walk-in refrigerator to keep it fresh. You can email or call us to let us know. Thank you to all of those who have already arranged another time to pickup!
Here's what you will find in this weeks share:
You get to take Cilantro home with you and…
Full shares receive an additional 11 choices.
Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.
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Enjoy! Thank you for supporting local agriculture. See you Thursday if not before.
Your Farmer,
Sam (For Tim, Matt, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Jaime, Evrald, Shawn, Colin, Jessie, Ani, Wyatt, Gal, and Claira)