Planning on joining us for our Field Day/Open House October 29th?
Please let us know if you are planning on attending so we can better plan. You can RSVP here: https://forms.gle/HVgKadUgAxUjz5J87
The event is free. Every CSA household gets a pumpkin, but we are taking donations of $8-$20 for the pumpkins as a fundraiser for our kid's school, if you are feeling generous or want additional pumpkins.
Lunch is being provided by Uncie Ro's Pizza. It's a flat price to eat what you will of his extremely delicious wood-fired pizza & salad, etc. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for kids under 12. You can purchase lunch tickets now too :) So that we don't have everyone waiting for pizza at once we are selling lunch tickets based on when you'd like to eat to spread out the traffic. Best pizza around!! Lunch tickets are in the EXTRAS section. If you are a Farmstand shopper then there's no "EXTRAS" section, they're listed in the Prepared Foods category.
We're still looking for a few volunteers that might enjoy helping kids and families press apple cider for a couple hours. If you are interested, e-mail teresa@fifthcrowfarm.com
Farm News:
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The baby chicks arrived last week! We celebrated in our traditional way with Chai and donuts by the brooder so all could snuggle a chick and enjoy their joyous peeping for minute. I tried to get a picture of 6' plus tall Ramon snuggling up for a kiss, but he got away from the camera before I could snag a shot (darn it).
It's official, the rain turned the tomato field into a mildewing mushy mess. We have a few left in the cooler that were picked this week for this coming weekend and then that's it for the dry farmed early girls. The melons have finally called it quits and while we have heaps of peppers on the plants, there aren't many more green peppers to ripen and with the fewer daylight hours the growth has really slowed. another week or two then they'll be done. We've pulled up all the dry beans and are trying to get everything threshed and under cover, but these little spits and spurts of rain that keep coming are making it challenging. All the pumpkins have been cut and we're trying to get them all collected and out of the fields too so we can prep the ground for it's winter blanket of cover crop that will need to go in within the next couple weeks. We're still busy busy, but with most of our crew back this week and the dark mornings having forced us to shift our start time later to 7:30, I think everyone's trying to hang in there, but anticipating that Fall slowdown. We're all not so secretly hoping to wake to a killer frost that will mean the end of the summer squash, green beans, basil.. and finally a slower pace. I say secretly wishing, because we know we should be hoping for this Indian Summer to hold out till we've harvested every last bit of the final plantings of frost sensitive crops. After all we still have 6 more weeks of CSA boxes to fill ;)
