Week 22

Hi Everyone,

Some real nice Fall weather the last few days. It makes it nice on the farm cleaning up and bringing the season to a close when your able to be outside on days like this! Some of the frustration of this growing season continues this week with the broccoli. The broccoli is beautiful and tastes awesome, but....each head is the home to a few cabbage worms. A good way to get rid of them is to totally submerge your broccoli under heavily salted water, you may have to put a plate on it or something heavy because it will want to float, some even add some vinegar to the water. This will, at least, detach the worms from the the underside of the heads and kill most. At least they come off and you can catch them in your strainer and send them on their way. I'm going to leave it up to you whether you want to mess with this process or not. The broccoli will be here if you want it.

On the plus side, the eggplant still is coming which seems a little unusual for this time of year, peppers too! The lettuces and root veggies are doing pretty well and the hens continue to be happy! As we get close to the end of the CSA think about egg delivery and whether you will want to continue it or, if you never had delivery, if you'll want to start it.

In your crates this week:


Garlic
Eggplant
Basil
Yukon Gold Potatoes
Romaine Lettuce
Spicy Salad Mix (arugula and red mustard greens)
Sweet Peppers
Radishes
Turnips
Broccoli
Kabocha Winter Squash

See you Wednesday.

Steve and Vicky