Kaden and I are excited about this farm share season, so I will jump right into some of this week's produce selection! 
This Week's Harvest
If you like salads then we have a great line-up for you! Our salad & shoots mix, microgreen mix, sunflower shoots, and arugula are all great options for eating fresh greens. If you'd like to add some flavor, then we have fresh dill and leaf fennel as cut herbs. If you have been craving some savory greens, then we have an incredible line-up of collard greens, mustard greens, braising greens, and a few bundles of bok choy. I think we will have some of the best braising greens in several seasons! The mix this week has komatsuna (Japanese spinach), Tokyo bekana, joi choy, large leaf arugula, and mustard greens. We have three options for root crops: rainbow radishes, French breakfast radishes, and salad turnips.
Add-ons will include pasture raised eggs from our farmer friends at 3 Board Farm. Fall/Winter is a tough time for chicken egg production, so we are working hard to find another regenerative farm that can help us meet the full farm share demands. I set aside several dozen jars of pickles just for the farm shares this season. We are also in the midst of our jam holiday market season, so I will also have several of those jars available for swaps and add-ons. Don't forget about the chanterelle mushrooms! We have a lot still saved from our record harvest earlier this year. The chanterelle mushroom flour is finely ground mushrooms, and I love using it like a seasoning. Add to some pasta sauce, or on a pizza, or to a soup made with some of this week's veggies!
NEW** Chanterelle Mushroom stock was made with a lot of our excess mushrooms from the Spring that wouldn't fit in the dehydrators! We vacuum sealed the stock in 16 oz servings.
Next Week's Harvest
We will have nearly the same vegetable options. If we get a good amount of rain, then the first of the daikon radishes will be ready for harvest. For microgreens, we will add the basil microgreens!
Farm Update
Most folks have heard that we are currently in a pretty severe drought. It hasn't made hard work any easier. Kaden and I are just happy to have a farm share season at this point. We are also grateful to have the jam side of our business to help between "hard times". A new market opened in Monroe's Garden District called Beef & Barrel. They placed the largest jam order in our farm's history! I also have been going to a lot more holiday markets this season. Enoch's Irish Pub has also been huge for us to cover operating costs while the vegetables were in low supply.
Since we started farming, a goal of mine is to have the first Fall carrots by Thanksgiving. I planted some that are supposed to be fast growing, but I'm not sure if we will hit that goal this year. The drought and high temperatures put us nearly a month behind our planting calendar. Our friends, The Rhodes Boys, have updated some of their well digging equipment, so we are about to give that another go. If we can become water-independent then we can really be less affected by drought. Right now, on the municipal water system, there's a good bit of money that we spend on the water bill every summer, or during a drought.
We really like the indoor microgreen set up! I hope we have a good growing season and we can get another shelf for the Spring! I'm excited about being able to grow fresh basil (microgreens) all Winter long!
I hope that you enjoy everything in your share this week!
Your Farmer, Conrad Cable
