Weather rewind: Is it summer again? Hey, I’m not complaining. The field was finally dry enough this week to get some much needed work done. All the sweet potatoes have been dug, the tomatoes and peanuts mowed down, the field disked and planted in a rye/vetch cover crop, and the baby chickens moved out onto pasture. [That passive voice just makes it sound like the work does itself, doesn’t it?] Today was a strong dose of late-October reality as we harvested and washed vegetables in the cold wind and rain.
On Thursday we had a group of students from Memphis Theological Seminary who planted garlic, bok choi, chard, and bunching onions, fed and mulched the peach trees, hauled brush and built the bonfire pile, and washed 6 bushels of sweet potatoes. The brush haulers discovered a secret stash of eggs where an Americauna chicken has been laying for a couple weeks – there were 15 eggs! We are almost caught up from our wet October… just have to do some plowing, a little more transplanting, a touch more direct seeding and viola! We’ll be all caught up. Except for the weeding of course, but I am not thinking about that today.
We are approaching the final month of our CSA and the fall garden in rockin’. We should have snap peas, bok choi and head lettuce next week. We plan to keep you well stocked in sweet potatoes, and the broccoli, cabbage and carrots are coming strong! We know being a CSA member is not always easy. You take whatever we throw at you, the favorites with the not-so-favorites, and I am sure you culinary creativity has been stretched at times. Thanks again for supporting us, and we’ll do what we can to make the final month a knock-out!
We still have a freezer full of chickens so tell your friends. Also, we will have cedar wreaths, made by yours truly, available for sale at the market starting in November.
