Alas, all things must come to an end, and this week is the last delivery of the season. Instead of taking your box home, please, if possible, just take the bag with you and leave the empty box. Site hosts, we will come around the next day or two and pick up the empties.
This is always a bittersweet time of year for me. On the one hand, I'm sad to see the growing season end. On the other hand, look forward to a rest, of sorts, although I still find plenty to do during the winter. Main farm activities at this time are planting cover crops and getting what's left of the harvest in. The opening photo is of a field planted with rye and vetch. In addition to preventing soil erosion from wind and rain, it will add organic matter and fertility to the field for next year's crop. And here is some red Russian kale all set to harvest and bunch:
Now that we've finally had a frost the flavor should be even sweeter.
This weeks featured vegetable is tatsoi. Here is a picture of one in the field:
Hard to beat in terms of looks, and the flavor isn't too far behind. It is similar to bok choy, but milder with less of a mustardy taste. Chopped finely it can be used as a spinach substitute, chopped coarsely it makes a good stir fry. Speaking of spinach, in case you are wondering why there isn't any, by way of explanation, I can relate to you that spinach doesn't like having roots in constant water, and so everything we planted in August and the first half of September died. It was very wet. Not to complain or anything, that's just the facts.
We're also busy getting the rest of the sweet potatoes harvested.
Hard to imagine that each cluster of tubers started its life as a skinny little shoot just four months ago. 
Not quite as good a harvest as last year but still nothing to sneeze at.
We're planning on sending out an end of the season survey. If you have the time, please fill it out. I'm very interested in knowing what you think. You can also email me directly with your feedback. It was a very challenging year for us in terms of crops, but there were still some bright spots, and I'm already looking forward to (and have already started planning for) next year. I'll be in touch soon with a farm update and a pitch for signing up early for the 2019 harvest share. Goodbye 'til then and have a great Winter!
John
