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Extended Season Week 4

This Week’s Harvest

Farm News

This box concludes our CSA season that started way back in June! Thank you so much for joining our CSA this season! From reading the blog to making fresh salsa to cutting open a juicy sweet watermelon, we hope the past 6 months have been full of great experiences with the CSA! We’ll take a little time off and then get back to it planning for the 2025 season- ordering seeds and setting up the CSA sign ups, attending conferences to learn and grown and share, deep cleaning buildings and machinery, deciding if we are in need of equipment upgrades and more! Before we know it it’ll be March and we’ll be starting our first seeds for next season! I plan to update the blog from time to time and of course be in touch about CSA signups sometime in the bringing of January! I’ll also be posting an announcement soon about our long time employee, Audrey’s, up coming art show in Yellow Springs so stay tuned for that! I’ll leave you with some pictures from the year! Have a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!

We had a terrific cauliflower year. It would be great if we could bring it back to the spring rotation but something tells me our plantings were so good because of the dry fall with cool nights- a weather pattern we rarely see in the humid spring.
A few more pictures of our awesome fall brassica block
Fall clean up action shot. Taking down the posts that held up our tomatillos
We love growing unique vegetables that you can’t find in the grocery store- like these scarlet and purple top turnips bunches
One of the last plantings of the year- another round of salad mix
One of the first plantings of the year – spring cabbages
The sweet corn is always photogentic
Our first CSA share of the season!
This picture doesn’t seem like it should have come from this season, which was so dry that there was a county wide burn ban in place and we had to run water 24/7!
Moo Deng Mania even hit the farm this summer!
My highlights from the year didn’t involve crops at all. We had a couple treats in the skies. I didn’t think Aurora Borealis viewing was possible in Southern Ohio!
We kicked off the season with a total solar eclipse that gave us quite the experience! This looked at felt like a sunset in the middle of the afternoon!
Like this sweet Italian pepper, we are ready to curl up for a long winters nap!

Recipes

Two Potato Gratin

Shepard’s Pie

Butternut Squash Soup

Cabbage Pad Thai (I would add sautéed daikon radish and Kohlrabi)

Tuna Salad with sesame ginger dressing (I would add thinly sliced kohlrabi to the salad)

3 thoughts on “Extended Season Week 4”

  1. This has been great. Thank you for providing healthy foods for my family. See you next year. 🩷

  3. We are so grateful for the delicious, beautiful and organic food you and your team grow and provide to the Dayton area!!! Thank you to all of you !!!

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