Welcome to Week 3 of the Fall Farm Share!
It's time to customize your share! You have til Tuesday at midnight to do so. Don't forget to return your green bag!
On The Farm
With our storage crops harvested, and a week of sunny dry weather, we have time to focus on building. Alex is installing a shed we took down from a family member. We are going to convert it into a kitchen to process our vegetables into value-added goods like ferments and preserves. Once that is done, he'll be working on our two new greenhouses! Even with the dry weather, it is muddy!
We've also been doing lots of thinking and planning. What can we do differently next year? How can we improve our growing practices? What can we grow more or less of? Should we grow squash or keep on buying it in? It is a gift of the seasonal nature of our work to have some time to pause, breathe, and think. Keep an eye on your inboxes for a survey in the next couple weeks, where we'll invite you to take part in this reflecting and planning process with us!
Veggie Highlights
Every year is different on the farm; some crops grow better than others, for a whole host of (sometimes indeterminable) reasons. This fall we've had an excellent harvest on many crops; kohlrabi, leeks, purple top turnips, bok choy, watermelon radish. Our carrots were late but we harvested a good amount of chubby ones. Our fall beets were definitely a crop failure, having barely grown in the wet boggy conditions of their beds. And we've realised we planted our spinach a week or two late, because it is not as abundant as we'd like. Hopefully the sunshine this week will help it bulk up. That note is going in the crop plan! I guess this is part of what eating with the season means; eating what is abundant. That being said, we will definitely plant more carrots than kohlrabi next year!
This Ramen Noodle Bake was my favourite meal this week. I used chow mein noodles and substituted the broccoli for bok choy! So yummy.
We hope you enjoy your veggies!
Please don't hesitate to email at mulberrymoonfarm@gmail.com or text me at 519-719-7253 with any feedback or questions at any time. :)
Your farmer,
Kim
