Week 15

Hi Everyone,

What a week..first tornado warnings, then an earthquake and then a hurricane, I'm sure California residents are feeling a bit jealous! Hurricane Irene hit the farm with a vengeance, as I'm sure it did with your places, Saturday into Sunday. We received 8 inches of rain and the high winds blew a large tree down by the back barn, sheared a fence post and collapsed part of a fence and flattened a couple of our young apple trees. Most of the crops seemed to fair pretty good, considering. Of course the summer squash was beaten down. I know someone has a summer squash voodoo doll that they're constantly stick pins in. I'm sure it's some member from last year when the summer squash was very, very prevalent...to prevalent. I know many are still without power. We usually lose power if there's a lightning flash any where in the world, but this time our power miraculously remained on.

We are combining a couple of things this week due to limited quantities because of the storm. You will either get eggplant or summer squash and you will get either a butternut squash or a Kabocha ( an orange winter squash that tastes very similar to butternut squash). We dug a few sweet potatoes just to see how they were doing and when you come Wednesday, I will show you the biggest, most beautiful sweet potato you've ever seen...it's huge! We planted the salad greens today, so we hope in about three weeks, we will get back to the delicious salads. We have 5 or 6 watermelons left..the early bird catches that worm.

In your crates this week:

Tomatoes
Beans
Winter squash
Summer squash or eggplant
Basil
Garlic
Onions
Carrots
Hot pepper assortment

We will have corn as well again this week.

See you Wednesday!

Steve and Vicky