This Week’s Harvest
Potatoes
Garlic
Sweet Onions
Carrots
Tomatoes (last of the year!)
Purple Cauliflower
Salad Mix OR Head Lettuce
Apple Share
Winesap and Gold Rush
Farm News
In addition to our CSA and 2nd Street Market stand we have a third outlet for our produce- wholesale through our Co-Op, Great River Organics. I’ve mentioned our Co-op here before but now I’ll talk about our main contribution to the Co-op. Each of the farms that makes up the Co-op has agreed to grow certain crops so individual farms can grow a lot of just a few vegetables but as a collective we can pull all the different vegetables we grow together and send a nice lengthy list of available produce to grocery stores, restaurants, institutions, etc. Our main crop for the co-op was summer squash. We grew over 20,000 lbs of it for the Co-op!
To do this we planted 4 rounds of around 2,500 plants each and picked daily from the end of June to end of September!
Lots of squash to pick!
weeding the plastic edges with the cultivating tractor
Looking at the fields today you wouldn’t know they produced thousands upon thousands of pounds of squash. We were diligent about mowing the old plants as soon as we were done harvesting to help keep the cucumber beetle and squash bug populations down. We also managed to stay on top of lifting the plastic out. On Friday we chisel plowed the fields and on Sunday Ben spent all day seeding cover crop and discing to cover the seed, finishing just in time for Monday’s light rain!
Recipes
Cantonese Chicken and Bok Choi Fried Rice
Coming Up Next Week (Our Best Guess….) cabbage, sweet potatoes, carrots, acorn squash, potatoes, black Spanish radish, rutabaga, spinach, purple cauliflower and more!