This is the last week of your summer shares! If you have joined the autumn season, it starts next week without pause. If you are ending your season with us now, THANK YOU! We are so pleased with how smoothly the season went and hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did! If you are not sure if you signed up or not, you can sign into Harvie and check or email Becky to find out your status.
It is also worth it to note that your subscription will auto-renew (with ample notice) for the 2022 season on February 1 next year. If you do not wish to auto-renew:
Log into your Harvie account
Click on your name in the upper right corner
Select My Account in the drop down menu
Click on Subscription
Toggle Auto-Renew to off
This year the season changed right when we got to September, so it actually does feel like fall. Some people are sad to say goodbye to summer, but September is the great confluence of all that we grow--we are still picking tomatoes and peppers and beans and we will also start picking kale and choi and arugula and lettuce again. In about a week we will start digging sweet potatoes, and right now we are about halfway through the winter squash harvest. The coolers have some onions and potatoes stored up (but never enough). We do have an unusually robust supply of garlic.
The students have gone back to school and we have a small new crop of workers to train up. This is a great time of year to start this job--the weather will be glorious, probably, and we are through with the interminable stretches of soggy heat.The downside is that all this food is so heavy! We are lugging baskets of Delicata and butternut squash out of the field, and we have not quite finished digging the last potatoes. When we fill the CSA bags lately, it seems like we are just piling in heavy round things.
What can you expect in the fall? About half of your share will be heavy stuff and the other half will be leafy. It is truly the season of delicious diversity. We will miss the tomatoes but we sure ate a lot of them, and they were really good. We have a lot to look forward to. The best is yet to come!
