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Just three days before the shortest day of the year and we wrapped up harvest with an extremely soggy one! As predicted, more or less the same share as last week’s A schedule share, with frisée instead of escarole. Instead of choice of radicchio this week everyone got a head of the light green Palla… Continue reading Last Fall Share, Final 2025 Harvest

Mustard, radicchio, rutabaga, carrots, kale, and escarole. A wonderfully warm, dry day made harvest easier yesterday and the greens are abundant due to the weather. The red mustard is huge and will make a big pot of greens. Kale leaves are smaller and there’s a mix of lacinato rainbow and winter red varieties. Radicchio is… Continue reading Fall Share 6A

Kale, red mustard, parsnips, rutabaga, frisée or escarole and radicchio. In today’s B week share we had escarole instead of the frisée and we’ll try to reverse that for the final fall A and B week shares.  Looking at the radicchio field right now I expect we’ll have two heads of radicchio in the shares,… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #6

Collards, radicchio, black radish, Napoli carrots, Shiraz beets, frisée, winter leeks. Frisée was planted late but it finally looked beautiful yesterday and I’m hoping the rest of it will continue to mature nicely in the field for our next harvest in two weeks. The radishes came in a variety of sizes and I randomly picked… Continue reading Fall Share 5A

Collards, radicchio, carrots, beets, winter radishes, and winter leeks. We finished up with the super long, light green fall leeks last week and are now getting into our shorter, darker Blue Soliaze leeks. We’re also into our winter carrots now. Radicchio will continue to be a mix of types. I think we still have some… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #5

A smaller number of items in the share this week, but most of them are bulky and/or heavy. That combined with the wet weather means we’re having an unusually high incidence of bag blowouts so be careful when picking up your share bag. In the bags are kale, rutabaga, parsnip, radicchio, green mustard and leeks.… Continue reading Fall Share 4A

We’ve passed the half way mark for fall, and daylight savings. The first prediction is easy to make, it’ll be dark at pick up so we’ll have lights on. My guesses on what we’ll have in the share are: kale, mustard, radicchio, leeks, parsnips, rutabaga. Kohlrabi was in the plan but I don’t think we’ll… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #4

Chard, arugula, cipolla onions, carrots, sweet pepper, radicchio and celeriac. We’re definitely not in the summer season anymore. I suspect there may be even a few more changes to next week’s share based on what the chard, arugula and daikon looked like in the field today but it’s hard to say. Radicchio is just getting… Continue reading Fall Share 3A

I’m very late on this post as harvest is tomorrow! Took advantage of yesterday’s weather to get some of the last plantings in, shallots and favas for next year as well as some cover crop in a few of the empty beds. In the field it looks like we’ll be harvesting chard, the first of… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #3

Once again I forgot to take a photo of the share while I was at the farm, but here’s one of the share I brought home with everything except for a winter squash. Leeks, arugula, sweet peppers, spinach, tomatoes, red lettuce, salad turnips with greens, beets and collard greens. It’s a big share by our… Continue reading Fall Share #2A

The weather is definitely transitioning us to fall both rapidly, but also gently. We got enough rain this week to not have to irrigate, and it was a drizzly harvest day like we haven’t had in quite a while. Temperatures are still decently warm, which is good for a few things, not as good for… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #2

Chard, carrots, sweet peppers, summer squash, salad turnips with greens, two types of shallot, tomatoes, romaine lettuce and celery. We’ve been having a bit of trouble with lettuce bolting this year, especially after each bout of heat, and it seems that’s continuing this fall with our warmer than usual days this Septemeber. That heat definitely… Continue reading Fall Share #1A

Today is fall equinox and Thursday will be our first fall CSA share for 2025. Here’s my best guess at what we’ll have: lettuce, chard, celery, onions, carrots, sweet peppers. There might be some daikon or salad turnips if they’ve sized up enough. Tomatoes will probably hang on for another week or two, and summer… Continue reading Start of Fall

Our final summer share of 2025, and the final Monday harvest: kale, fennel, cucumber, yellow onions, sweet pepper, summer squash, tomatoes, lettuce and beets with greens. The fennel needed to be harvested this week and the celery could use some more time to size up so that’s a little change from the predictions. Other than… Continue reading Summer Share 13 of 13

Next week is the final week of our summer season. The weather yesterday was definitely feeling fall like and the days are getting noticeably shorter as the equinox approaches. In the share I’m guessing we’ll have lettuce, kale, yellow onions, beets, tomatoes, sweet peppers and maybe some celery. Summer squash and cucumbers are nearing their… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share 13 of 13

Again I forgot to take a photo at the farm and fortunately had a full share at home so here’s what was in it: chard, cucumber, sweet pepper, carrots, shallots, tomatoes and lettuce. The shallots should keep for at least a month or two if you don’t use them right away. I typically only use… Continue reading Summer Share 12 of 13

We’re getting down to the last weeks of summer and the weather forecast is for decidedly fall like weather next week. That will slow the tomatoes and peppers down and may speed the inevitable end of cucumbers and summer squash. Carrots and chard should return to the shares next week and we’ll have more lettuce,… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share 12 of 13

Oh my, I’ve been terrible about getting these posts up online in a timely manner recently! Must be the time of year when there’s too much to do. In the share on Monday was: lettuce, beets with greens, summer squash, red onions, cucumbers, sweet peppers, tomatoes and a sprig of basil. Two heads of lettuce… Continue reading Summer Share 11 of 13

The tomatoes and peppers have been loving all this heat and it looks like the heat is going to continue next week. Summer squash and cucumbers like it too but they’ve been producing for a while now so they’re slowing down so we should have some, but maybe not as many as previous weeks. Red… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #11

I totally forgot to do predictions last week, and I would have been wrong anyway. In the share are summer squash, romano beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, sweet peppers and lettuce. The romano beans were unexpected, I thought they’d be taking a break. The tomatoes and sweet peppers really liked the heat over the weekend so… Continue reading Summer Share 10 of 13