The baby chicks arrived! Every year we establish a new flock that will begin to lay come Spring. After the CSA is over we also harvest the oldest birds for stew hens. This year's incoming team is as cute as ever. If you pick up at the farm feel free to come over and take a look. Just follow the peeping sounds.
We've also wrapped up threshing all the beans and getting them under cover in case of rain. Yay! We'll save all the cleaning for rainy days this Winter. The Winter Squash have all been cut and collected accept for Butternut (we'll do that this week) and a mini planting of pumpkins we grew for all the farm kids. We've collected all the onions and this week we'll collect the shallots, which weren't quite cured enough last week to crate up. We're clearing fields to get ready to sow cover crop and prepping strawberry beds for next year's berries which will be planted in about a month.
FLOWER SHARE HOLDERS: This week will be the last week of our flower share season! Time to start shifting out focus to getting the fields ready for (hopefully) Winter rains. We will likely offer some flowers as extras next week and soon we'll start offering dried floral wreaths and bouquets for the Holidays.
Product Highlights- this week's apples:
Hudson's Gold Gem- (one of my personal favorites) One of the few remaining truly fully russetted apples. Sugary sweet, crisp, yet with a distinctly pear-like flavor and texture. Beautiful bronze russeted apple (that means the skin is rough like a Bosc Pear). Many russet varieties of apples have disappeared from grocery stores, supposedly because of customer preference for shiny smooth apples. We think it's time to bring them back! This variety is one of the sweetest of the russets we grow. Pear? Apple? It has a nutty pear-like texture & sugary sweetness.
Idared-Cross between a Jonathan and Wagener Apple. Originally from Moscow, ID. This beautiful dark red skinned apple holds up beautifully to cooking and keeps well. Mild flavor, can make a beautiful pink applesauce if cooked with skins. Sweetly tart.
