This week we are harvesting a few new (and one returning after a long absence) items: leeks, fennel, winter squash, and kohlrabi. We also have salad mix again, hooray!
Definitely check out your shares for some customization, as there are quite a few options available for swapping! We also have kombucha back, and Z&Bee's flower bouquets!
We harvested all our squash this week! This is always one of my favourite harvests - the cooler fall air, the variety of shapes and sizes and colours. It marks the end of something that we started months ago in late spring.
For winter squash this week we have two varieties; acorn and carnival. These are very similar to one another in flavour, and you can cook them in the same way. Carnival is actually a hybrid of acorn and sweet dumpling squash. We love the way it looks - speckled with green, orange, and white, it's quite beautiful. Here's an article about the carnival squash https://www.thekitchn.com/why-im-loving-carnival-squash-right-now-ingredient-intelligence-214544
You don't have to use your winter squash up right away. Usually it'll keep on your kitchen table for 2-4 weeks. It stores best somewhere dry and dark around 10 degrees. Try a shelf or drawer in your kitchen cupboard, pantry, or closet. Your garage might work too!
Our tomatoes continue to produce in the hoophouses! They can keep going for quite awhile. We hope you're enjoying them! This is the longest season we've had for tomatoes yet. Many growers will remove them at this point to plant fall greens. That's a future goal for us - by planting our hoophouses with greens and growing larger amounts of root crops, we could add a fall farm share that would last up until December. We definitely want to extend the availability of local food for as long as possible! But this year, we want to focus on getting our soil ready for next year and finishing up infrastructure building and other systems-organization that we didn't get to complete this spring. This season was pretty great, but we want next season to be even better. Also, we expect the upcoming baby will be keeping us a bit busy. So, we'll let our tomatoes continue to grow.
Beans are still happening too! We're moving on to our final planting now, so they'll be around for another couple weeks as long as the weather stays good.
Just a reminder that there are 5 weeks left of our Farm Share after this week - the last pick up is October 22nd.
Hope you enjoy your veggies this week!
Your farmers,
Kim and Alex
