Thank you all who have signed up for a winter share. I’ll have more information about the pick-ups soon.

The last main season csa pick-ups will be: Friday October 17 and Tuesday October 21. The Winter CSA will start Friday November 7.

I wanted to share a harvesting strategy I’ve been using, which you may or may not have noticed. Some crops need to be harvested at least twice a week since the window between them being ready and being over-mature is narrow (tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, lettuce etc.) Zucchini needing to be harvested 4 times a week. Some crops can hold in the field longer so I can choose to harvest or wait (carrots, celery, fennel, cabbage etc.). For many years I would harvest these crops every other week to spread out the distribution. That had to change when I added bi-weekly shares as an option. The first year I offered them it took me most of the season before I realized some bi-weekly members were not getting certain crops. I was harvesting carrots every other week and certain members ended up not getting any summer carrots… It was a tragedy. I switched to giving these types of crops out for two weeks then taking a two week break to make sure everyone got them. All the fall crops are like this, so for the remaining weeks you will see many crops for two weeks and then a break…

Just thought I’d let you know 🙂

First: there was a scheduled workshop on seed saving tomorrow September 13 that has been cancelled. Sorry but when I imagined doing this back in the winter I thought the season would have slowed down enough, but turns out I was overly optimistic 🙂

But stay tuned for information on upcoming events: In October we will hold our moving like planets that got rained out in July; and in November there will be a workshop “The Miracle of the Human Body: finding meaning in physical work”

More details to come!