Our fall season got off to a good start yesterday, the shares looked good and the weather was actually quite nice! Unfortunately I completely forgot to take any photos of the share or the field so instead you get a photo of Monday’s rainy day project, shelling, cleaning and sorting the dry beans we grew this summer (more on that in a post soon!) Here’s what was in the shares: chard, spinach, green crisp and red leaf lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, red and yellow onions, two winter squash. For fall we harvest every Thursday but half of our members come on the “A” schedule, and half come on the “B” schedule, so they only pick up every other week. A and B schedule shares will be similar, but the tomatoes and peppers might be slowing down a bit, and it’s just a bit harder to say what the greens will look like so there will likely be some differences.
In the field we got to a bit of hoeing, and also started the long process of pulling out all of the irrigation lines and generally cleaning up the beds that have finished for the year to start getting them ready for next year. Monday we didn’t have a harvest or distribution for the first time since spring. It was a rainy day so the crew had the day off and I spent the day shelling, cleaning and sorting dry our dry bean harvest. I’ll put up a separate post on those next week and we should have some available for pre-order and possibly on the farm stand. Unfortunately we don’t have anywhere near the amount of space we’d need to grow enough for all of the shares. I keep them in the mix in the field both because I love growing them and they make a nice rotational crop along with the dry corn and winter squash. The beans in the photo here are the off-types I sorted out. We save all of our own bean seed but we don’t usually give much of a buffer between varieties so it’s common to see some crossing and these are some of those resulting crosses.
Cully Neighborhood Farm 