We made it!  We have arrived at the last week of the 2019 CSA!  After that first hard freeze took out all our lettuce I wasn’t sure we were going to get here.  Then we got a week of record breaking cold with early morning…

Proof that our soil is getting better Earlier this year we had our soil tested.  I walked around the garden with a trowel and some quart freezer bags, and scooped up soil from various spots, and sent off five separate samples from our crop field. …

We were scrambling today to get a bunch of harvesting done ahead of a rainy day tomorrow and then plummeting temperatures.  I promis e a newsier newsletter next week. Your shares today feature giant kohlrabi! I am particularly excited about this kohlrabi because last fall…

We’ve been enjoying some company lately.  My mother, Guin, has been here for her semi annual visit.  Randy’s mother, Connie, was able to visit for a week.  And my dad, Sterling, made it out for a few days for our Fall Party.  Cooper has been…

If you’ve been keeping up with this newsletter, then you already know this has been a challenging year.  I saw a couple pictures of our farmers market display from a year ago, when it was beautiful and piled high with all kinds of vegetables.  It…

The seasons changed overnight.  Gone is the hot, dry summer weather that bled all the way through September and into October.  Several inches of rain settled the dust and soak the ground. The rain did more than just water the crops.  When necessary, and it…

Some Very Hungry Caterpillars I knew the armyworms were coming when the purslane started to disappear.  Maybe I didn’t know, but I suspected.  I said to myself, “that looks like armyworms.  I bet this fall is going to be a rough one.”  But that was…

Coming Soon: Sweet Potatoes It’s September, so where are the sweet potatoes?  The sweet potato patch has looked better than ever this year.  Somehow it has stayed relatively weed free with just one quick hand weeding earlier this summer.  My dad planted them when he…