Summer CSA Newsletter: October 1st, 2024 (Week 19)

The pumpkin patch! Cyan and Macca tagged along to help me pick out the best ones. If you didn’t know, the stems can be quite spiky, and can hurt if you don’t pick them up carefully. We only needed 8, but Cyan suggested we grab an extra, and thank goodness he did! We found a soft spot on one of them when we got back, where a hungry worm had eaten his fill.

Hi Folks,

Week XIX.

As the day gets shorter we are scrambling a little to get all of the tasks done before dark.  We hustle a little more in these days to complete the tasks and get to bed a little earlier.  

Chris and Andres have been busy seeding down nurse crops amongst the fall greens.  These nurse crops are cover crops of rye, oats and or peas that will hold the soil between the cash crops of fall head lettuce, beets, broccolini, etc.  So if in the coming weeks you find a seed sometimes they have even sprouted in the folds of your lettuce, now you know why.  The seed gets broadcast above the plants and falls where ever.  Sometimes into the cash crop.  You can take these seeds and plant them into your garden.  Watch they will probably take!

It's going to be a beautiful autumn weekend.  There is a lot of diversity yet to enjoy on the tables, as summer crops wane and fall crops come in the bounty harvest yearns to be eaten by you and yours.

Your Farmers, 

Chris, Aeros & The Who Crew