Today is the final Winter CSA pick-up for the 2025/26 season. Two stories to tell so I won’t be repeating them to everyone.

First eggs. For those who get eggs usually, I’m a bit short. The cold weather the past two weeks has kept the chickens focusing on keeping warm. For those who have pre-paid, I will have them for you. I may not have enough for everyone else but by next week, of course, I’ll have more, so if you want to arrange to pick some up just let me know. Texting is best (519 369 8116)

The Turtle bean story: I grew some, not many, beans last season, interplanted with the popcorn, with the intention of giving them out in the winter shares. The trick with getting dry beans fully cleaned comes with the name, they need to be dry. In the fall I picked a sunny day and cut out all the plants, laying them on tables in the barn to fully dry down. I had intended to work on cleaning them in the fall. Then one of the early snows in November came with a lot of wind, and the entire inside of the barn got a layer of snow, including the beans. I shifted them around and got the snow off, but with all the other windy snowstorms it became ridiculous. I have a fanning mill that can clean them pretty well, but the dryness became an issue (the fanning mill got snow on it too). Anyway, since it’s the last winter pick-up one of the options is a small bag of black beans in their pods. It will be novel, definitely not efficient. Not sure I’ll do it again, but life and learn 🙂