FARM SHARE CELEBRATION:
Please join us on Sunday, September 22nd for a small celebration of our season and an opportunity for us to say THANK YOU for committing to our farm and to supporting local, organic agriculture this season. We really wouldn't be here without folks like yourselves. We'll have a farm tour, a bonfire, and some farm-made treats and refreshments. Please follow this link https://paperless.ly/2PYZUff to RSVP. We'll also be sending out this information in an email soon. Hope to see you there!
Zucchini and cucumber mowed down and covered with a tarp to kill the weeds. Beside the tarp are some fall veggies in the brassica family (radish, turnip, and bok choy), covered in insect netting.
So, what is September like on the farm? Well, we had our first sweater-weather a few crisp mornings last week. The change in the air is refreshing, and, somehow, invigorating. We're planting less (last plantings to go in this week!), and doing a lot of bed prep now (Alex's job), which involves a lot of mowing, bed-shaping, broadforking, and compost-spreading. In fact, Alex is spending this morning picking up two loads of organic turkey-litter compost. We've learned this summer that our soil can only benefit from more and more of this rich stuff. After we spread it on our beds, we're hoping to get an oats and peas cover crop in. This cover crop will help incorporate the compost into the soil, add nutrients to the soil, reduce erosion, and keep feeding the multitude of microorganisms living in the soil throughout the winter.
Beyond cover cropping and bed prepping and meeting and planning and turkey-watching, we are cleaning onions and garlic, picking lots of beans, eagerly watching our fall crops grow (lets go, potatoes, radish, and cabbage!), and enjoying wild apples and hawthorne berries with Rosemary in the woods.
Cabbages getting bigger!
