Author: joshvolk

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This crazy warm weather is ironically a bit hard on the vegetables. The warmth, paired with short days (low light) and wet conditions is not doing the cold loving vegetables any favors. We should still have some good ones next week though. Here’s my best guess: radicchio, chard, celeriac, carrots, arugula, onions and shallots. That… Continue reading Week 26 Predictions

In today’s share: collard greens, carrots, mixed beets, a leek, watermelon radish, spinach and sugarloaf chicory. A second week of big! chicory. The sugarloaf seems to have done well with the warm, dry fall. If you haven’t had it it’s a similar flavor and texture to the escarole, but a bit crisper. If you can’t… Continue reading 6th Fall Share, Week 25

Three more weeks to go so we’re getting to the point where there aren’t as many crops left out in the field. It would seem like that would make predictions easier but there are actually a bunch of other confounding factors making it tricky to know what the best combination will look like until we’re… Continue reading Week 25 Predictions

In this week’s share we have: chard, leeks, carrots, tomatoes, celery, lettuce, mustard greens and escarole! I feel obligated to put an exclamation mark after the escarole for multiple reasons. One is that it’s delicious, but also these are huge heads! If you haven’t prepared it before it looks like lettuce, and you can make… Continue reading 5th Fall Share, Week 24

Popcorn went out this week. If you didn’t already catch it check the previous post (a couple back) on how to pop it. It probably would benefit from at least a few more weeks of drying out before you pop it, but it does pop now. For next week all of the fall crops are… Continue reading Week 24 Predictions

Todays share has kale, kohlrabi, carrots, hakurei turnips, tomatoes, two heads of lettuce, a sweet pepper and popcorn. The kale is Lacinato Rainbow but we may switch to Nash’s on Thursday depending on how the rest of the planting looks. Kohlrabi will be swapped for cabbage or collards on Thursday. There are two heads of… Continue reading 4th Fall Share, Week 23

I just posted a few little video clips and suggestions for taking our full ears of popcorn and making them into full bowls for snacking. Check them out over on Instagram: https://instagram.com/p/Bo2QGYWBE–/

Above are some massive Superschmelz kohlrabi that went out instead of the cabbage last night. An alternate option was some beautiful Mantovano fennel. All three of these crops, for different reasons, have come up a bit short this fall but we’re still holding out hope for more to come. Some crops that aren’t coming up… Continue reading Week 23 Predictions

A soggy start to the week and there’s a bit more than I was expecting in the share today. As expected, the chard, lettuce and carrots all continue to be beautiful. Peppers are still going, and might even make it another week, as are the Matina tomatoes from the hoop house. Salad turnips were a… Continue reading 3rd Fall Share, Week 22

Seems like we’re having a nice gradual transition into fall, both with the weather and with the crops. Our carrot and lettuce supply looks good for the foreseeable future. Chard continues to look good although I did notice a few more aphids starting to return. Sweet peppers are slowing quite a bit but we should… Continue reading Week 22 Predictions

Today’s share has the first of the winter squash. We’re starting with Sweet Reba, an acorn type, and Delicata Zeppelin. The yield on winter squash was pretty poor this year so we’ll likely only be giving out one or two more squash in the next week or two, but these two varieties should be good… Continue reading 2nd Fall Share, Week 21

Fall got off to a beautiful start with a nice, warm, dry week and it looks like we might get another one next week. Sweet peppers should continue, but it’s unclear what the tomato situation will be. Lettuce continues and we’ll likely have a bit of arugula to spice up salads and possibly a few… Continue reading Week 21 predictions

Pretty much as predicted this week. The share has a big head of celery, carrots, chard, lettuce, and the remaining basil, sweet peppers and tomatoes. In addition, we’re distributing all of the stored onions, shallots, garlic and potatoes! This is the full fall share of these crops for the rest of the season. We figured… Continue reading 1st Fall Share, Week 20

Summer has quickly turned to fall this year, harvest wise, but we still have a few summer holdouts that look like they’ll make it into the first fall share. We’re going to try to give out one last bunch of basil and whatever tomatoes we can. Peppers should still be producing well – we’re picking… Continue reading Week 20 predictions – First week of fall

Next week is the start of our fall season so this is the last week of the summer share and the transition is evident. We’re cleaning up the kale planting so there’s a small bunch of Nash’s Green kale in the share, and the chard is looking so good that we harvested bunches of that… Continue reading 13th (and last) Summer Share, Week 19

Next week is the last week of summer. This week it was feeling like summer was already over and fall was starting, both from the weather and the harvests. Next week it looks like we might get a little more sun but the temperatures are still supposed to be a bit chilly in the evenings.… Continue reading Predictions for Week 19

A bit damp this morning and it looks like that might be the case all week. It makes harvest a little more complicated for us, but the greens love it. As predicted, tomatoes and peppers are still in abundance, the greens are looking great and the basil is still hanging in there. We also have… Continue reading 12th Summer Share, Week 18