We hope you enjoyed the tomato overwhelm the past few weeks because those days are behind us. It's amazing how quickly feast can turn into famine. Those main outdoor tomato plants have mostly succumb to inevitable disease. You ask why we plant as much as we can inside high tunnels? It's because the tomatoes in the tunnels were planted months before the outdoor tomatoes and are still healthy and productive. The shield from rain and dew is the difference. Our lowland farm is prone to heavy dew and wet foliage breeds disease (especially when we don't use chemical fungicide to kill the disease). So we get what we can from outdoors but wish for more covered space.
Have no fear because reduced tomato production will be made up by more okra, pole beans, peppers, greens, new potatoes from Pearl Farms and the beginning of the ginger harvest!
Also, we have some Asian Pears available as an add-on from Lile Merrill at Trails West Farm, a farmer at the Overland Park Farmers market, who grows using all-natural practices.
The farm is undergoing a transformation as we prepare for fall and winter. The fields are filling up with fall carrots, watermelon radishes, purple diakon radishes, beets, turnips, broccoli and cabbages. Its looking like we are going to have a very VERY productive fall and early winter. Some of these crops will make it into the end of the summer CSA (ends October 9), and many will take us into the first half of the winter CSA. We're still making plans for the winter CSA and we're still needing a Lee's Summit location, so if you live in Lee's Summit especially (or elsewhere around town), and would be interested in hosting, please email us.
Bread and Cheese
Cheese: Hemme Brothers Fresh Mozzerella, 8 oz ball (7 day shelf life)
Bread: Farm to Market French Farm Artisan Loaf
We're so grateful for your membership in supporting our farm. It's fantastic to sow seeds knowing they will help to feed our little community. Thanks for being part of the local food revolution. We couldn't do it without you!
Your farmers,
Dave and Sheri
