Author: joshvolk

Apologies for the late post here, I haven’t quite adjusted to the fall posting schedule yet. Here’s what I think we’ll have: fennel, kale, leeks, lettuce, salad turnips. I’m hoping there will be more sweet peppers and maybe even tomatoes. Other possibilities are celery and carrots but they might need to size up a little… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #2

Fall is off to a good start, and the weather has really shifted! Chard, hakurei turnips with greens, French Grey shallots, parsley, sweet pepper, tomatoes, yellow onions, spinach and butter lettuce all made it into the shares. On the farm stand we had some of the last cucumbers, eggplant and sauce tomatoes. We haven’t been… Continue reading Fall Share #1

If you signed up for a fall share you should have received an email earlier today with confirmation of your pick up schedule and all of the details on picking up your first share. Here’s my best guess at what we’ll have in that first share: lettuce, chard, onions and shallots, parsley and salad turnips.… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #1

Kale, celery, tomatoes, sweet pepper, beets and lettuce. The celery is just a few small stalks, good for cooking or chopping up to add to a salad. The sweet pepper pictured here is a “Liebesapfel” pimento type, but the peppers are very slow in ripening right now due to the weather so we’ve mixed up… Continue reading Summer Share #13

The final week of summer looks and the weather is already looking fall like. We need a little more sun and heat to get the peppers and tomatoes ripening again. That said, there probably will be at least a pepper and a few tomatoes next week, as well as more kale and lettuce. A bit… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #13

Chard, tomatoes, sweet pepper, cucumbers, carrots, red shallots, lettuce. Peppers are starting to come on with the earliest being the Jimmy Nardello peppers, a very sweet, thin walled “frying” pepper. We’ve also had a few Liebesapfel (candy apple) pimento types on the farm stand and they may show up in some shares. The first of… Continue reading Summer Share #12

The penultimate share of the summer season! Likely there will be red leaf lettuce, tomatoes, sweet pepper, red shallots, carrots and chard. Summer squash and cucumbers are on their way out but we should still have them at least on the farm stand, along with a bit of eggplant and maybe basil and a few… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #12

A little bigger share today: collard greens, cipollini onions, romano beans, sweet pepper, cucumber and summer squash, tomatoes, golden beet, green crisp lettuce. Maturity and size on crops is all over the map right now due to the ups and downs of the weather this summer and weed pressure which has been building over the… Continue reading Summer Share #11

The sun is noticeably lower in the mornings these days, shadows are getting longer in the afternoon. Here’s what we’re expecting for next week: green crisp lettuce, collard greens, tomatoes, cipollini onions and yellow beets. Summer squash and cucumbers seem to be waning, as they usually do this time of year so those will probably… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #11

Lettuce, carrots, potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, chard. The cool weather really slowed down the summer squash so we only had enough of that for the farm stand, and the squash bugs have found it so I’m not sure how much longer we’ll have it. The potatoes are the all red fingerling called Amarosa we’ve been growing… Continue reading Summer Share #10

A single post this week with both the share photo (a little late!) and predictions for next week’s share. I was out of town on Monday so Sara took the photo but I’m just now getting around to posting it. In the shares this week were  butter lettuce, tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, kale, yellow onions… Continue reading Summer Share #9 and Predictions for #10!

The summer is flying by and the weather has been feeling almost fall like! Next week’s share should be similar to this past week with butter lettuce, Madeley kale, summer squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, and we’ll add in more of the French Grey shallots and some yellow storage onions. We pulled all of the rest of… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #9

Lettuce, tomatoes, summer squash, carrots, cucumbers, romano beans, kale. A much smaller head of lettuce this week and we’ll see what Thursday gets as this variety is on the verge of bolting, although the cooler temps might help a bit. Tomatoes are on now so more than just one in the share! The carrots weren’t… Continue reading Summer Share #8

Tomatoes have started producing and with a little luck we’ll have them regularly through the end of the season. Lettuce has been suffering from the heat but we should still have small heads next week. Summer squash and cucumbers are up and down a bit with the heat and cool but they should continue for… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #8

Lettuce, red onion, cucumbers, chard, summer squash, tomato, baby leeks. Monday’s shares also have basil so that’s shown in the middle of the photo and Thursday got the basil two weeks ago. From here out we’ll probably put any remaining basil on the farm stand and if you’d like to make a larger batch of… Continue reading Summer Share #7

Word of the day yesterday was HOT! I’m not sure all the reasons it felt even hotter than our last heat wave, but it looks like it’s going to stay warm through next week. I’m optimistic that this will mean we’ll have the first taste of ripe tomatoes in the shares. The cherry tomatoes in… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #7

A little smaller one this week: kale, shallots, cucumbers, sweet onion, summer squash, butter lettuce. The kale is a new variety for us which has collard shaped leaves and we’ve planted especially for winter production, but are curious to see how it does in the summer too. So far it’s vigorous so that’s a good… Continue reading Summer Share #6

We’re solidly into the middle of summer now and it’s a bit of a funny lull in our harvest schedule some years as we wait for tomatoes and peppers to ripen. The romano beans ended their first flush of fruits pretty abruptly after Monday’s harvest, sped up by the heat the prior weeks no doubt.… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #6

Lettuce, summer squash, carrots, cucumbers, romano beans, sweet onion and parsley. The cucumbers, especially our Salt and Pepper white cucumbers are really starting to produce. We had a bit of chard as well as extras on the lettuce, beans, cucumbers and summer squash on the farm stand today. We’ll see how well the beans continue… Continue reading Summer Share #5

Should be a similar share to this past week I think. Today’s shares got Romano beans instead of the green beans and that should be the case for next week’s share too. Carrots will likely be in there, lettuce, a sweet onion or two, more summer squash and cucumbers, maybe some parsley. We’re probably done… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #5