Week 12

Hi CSAer's,

Hard to believe that we find ourselves at week 12 already. We are half way through this year's CSA! DON'T FORGET THERE WILL BE A PICK UP NEXT WEEK. Jeezs, that article in the Mason Dixon Arrive magazine, that most of us get for free in our mailbox every month, really has excited a lot of folks that there is an organic farm in their neck of the woods. In the last two weeks we have seen a lot of new faces dropping by. Speaking of dropping by, the folks from MPT dropped by on Friday again. They wanted to get some shots of ripe tomatoes on the vine. Well, their timing was impeccable as we had, just minutes before their arrival, finished picking the last ripe tomato. Through the magic of television, we were able to "arrange" some of the just picked tomatoes to make it look like they were on the vine.

I know a lot of you may have been disappointed that we went through the new crop of honey so quickly, all 65 pounds sold in one day, but....I was checking the bees today and we have at least one hive that is still going gang busters, so we should have a bit more towards the end of summer.

The end of summer may be a ways off, but believe it or not this past weekend and this week we are planting many of our fall crops. We will welcome back many things we offered in the spring. Things like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, kale, lettuces, spinach, radishes etc. It's interesting that many of the lettuce and spinach seeds won't germinate until it gets a bit cooler. We attempted to keep the salad greens coming through the summer, but nothing would even start in the heat.

This week we add eggplant to the list for the first time and it may be the last time. It's weird, the eggplant plants look the best I think they have ever looked, but they aren't setting much fruit. Also with all the melons coming in now, instead of having you choose this or that, we are giving everyone a half of a honeydew, a half of a cantaloupe and a half of a watermelon. We thought giving you three whole melons in a week might be a bit much.

This week in your crates:

Tomatoes
Eggplant
Cucumbers
Beans
Squash
Honeydew
Cantaloupe
Watermelon
Basil
Garlic
Sweet peppers

We'll have corn this week as well.

See you Wednesday!

Steve and Vicky