Our main season shares are winding down-- we only have four deliveries left! This year we offered a fall season extension, our first time being able to offer memberships into November, which continues four more weeks past main season. If you can't remember if you signed up or not, you can check your scheduled deliveries here.
This week is the last true week of 'summer' on the farm. We are celebrating the last week of many heirloom tomatoes and strawberries, and welcoming the first spinach and salad turnips back onto our harvest lists.
As the cool days (and nights) set in, our warm loving crops slow down production, which is good because now is the time to plant for winter in our hoophouses. We harvest hardy greens well into the winter for our restaurants and grocers (check Central Oregon Locavore out this winter if you're missing our greens!), and these plants need the remaining days with adequate light and warmth to get growing. It can be sad to see summer crops go, but they're tired at this point and we welcome a new beginning.
We have some last summer goodies for you this week, savor them up! Next week you will see many more fall-ish crops in boxes: roots and squash that took advantage of growing in long summer days but are dense enough to keep into the fall and winter. Most of these are currently mature in our field, not doing much growing anymore, but waiting for their harvest moment.
Today we are finishing up our winter squash harvest, bringing in the fruits of fall to be enjoyed over the next several months. They're here just in time for cooler days and cozy meals, look forward to them in the coming weeks!
Your farmers (making soup tonight),
Ashley, Caleb and the Sungrounded Crew
