This week's share includes more favorite fall veggies, Red Maria potatoes, fennel, kale and radicchio from Ironwood Farm; rainbow beets, radishes and broccoli from New Beat Farm; cauliflower, baby arugula and chard from Bahner Farm; and carrots, parsley, sage and thyme from Villageside Farm — ingredients for a wonderful roasted vegetable medley or stew or mash or . . . what's for dinner? Daybreak Growers Alliance always has bread, cheese, eggs and meat to make your meal complete, see all the Share Options here, all available for weekly, bi-weekly or one-time deliveries.
Navigating Your Harvie Account
Harvie recently made some improvements to the navigation menu in your account, the graphic below shows where you can find information about your profile and shares, if you any have further questions e-mail farmers@daybreakgrowersalliance.com.
Update from The Milkhouse
This week will likely mark the end of grazing season for us at the Milkhouse. We will continue to have the cows out on pasture, but they’ll be eating bales of hay or baleage. This practice allows for the cows to continue spreading fertility-their own manure, and any parts of the bale they may reject (there’s always some leftover stems they choose not to eat!). Bale feeding also allows for some passive reseeding of pastures. Seeds fall out of the baled feed and the cows trample in those seeds.
By mid or late November (the timing is weather dependent-if the ground is really squishy we’ll move ’em in early, if it’s dry they can continue to ‘bale graze’ on pastures for a while) the cows will move into the barns, and while they will continue to have outdoor access, it’ll be limited to areas proximate to the barns. While we don’t really have an off season in dairy farming, the winter is somewhat more restful. We’re looking forward to that, but we can hardly believe that we’re just about there!
