With summer like weather lasting into the first week of October, we are excitedly harvesting a late planting of green beans and bell peppers.
Animals and Eggs
The chickens have laid well this year which is always great. We have decided to expand their housing next season instead of this winter given how many of the neighbors chickens have been taken by coyotes over the summer. As for the trials of the pigs, we now have the pickup running again. We will know next week what butchering date we can get for late October or early November. Sorry for the delay!
Fruit
We have a nice second harvest of interlocken grape. This bodes very well for our future plans to add wine grapes to the farm. We love the interlocken, they have such interesting flavors and are just perfectly spicy.
Greens
Salad mix is now back in the share. We will have it for the majority of the winter harvest with only a few exceptions. These greens are a little less tender than we had hoped due to the wide temperature swings we have had the last few weeks. But the new crop should be just great. We will begin to harvest that in mid November.
Herbs
Herbs are a plenty on the farm right now. With garlic, shallot, and rosemary in the share. Recently we reviewed our herb inventory and we will be adding to it over the winter. In the coming weeks we will harvest horse radish and lemon grass. Both of which we have had before but we are planning on adding some special basil varieties back to the share in 2010 as well as some new herbs such as lovage. Stay tuned!
Vegetables
Tomatoes continue to hang in there on the vines (check out our fried red tomatoes recipe). With no soft frost killing them in late September. We anticipate a hard frost any time soon but the cold green house has continued to protect them. Cucumbers have started to reduce their prolific production and we are sure you are happy about that. It was great to get a green bean harvest this week. We planted them so late we thought they would never be ready. Storage onions are still with us and we are moving toward the end of that crop. A new crop of green onions is just a few weeks away and will likely be ready as soon as we begin the monthly harvests of the winter season. We have also been fortunate to have a small green pepper harvest this year. We have been waiting for our hot peppers to come to full maturity but not so yet. Just a few more week.
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