Week 11 Newsletter

Week # 11 - Week of August 10th

SL-august.  It’s a word makes more sense being heard than read.  Perhaps if I spelled it Slog-ust it would be better in written form.  Regardless of how you spell it, it’s a term my farm friend, Ryan, came up with that best explains this moment.  Production is peaking across the field as now the long season crops that need 2-3x/week maintenance harvest are crushing (think tomatoes – heirloom and cherry, cucumbers, summer squash, beginning of peppers) as well as the normal crops that we have been doing all season – lettuce, fennel, herbs, beets, cabbage, etc.   AND the final crops of the year go in these next couple weeks (CRAZY RIGHT!!!).  The broccolis, cabbages and radicchios of fall all go in now, catch the end of the heat – through mid September let’s say – and then do their finishing growth in late Sept-mid October.   We have A LOT of tomatoes and peppers (and hopefully corn and melons) to get through before then, so don’t think I am hastening fall to arrive.  It’s just the crux of the workload.  We have about 140 beds in our back fields.  Franklin told me we were meant to flip 67 of them this week and next – almost half of the farm!!!   I modified it a little as I thought we had too much gusto when we came up with the crop plan in spring, but nonetheless we are planting out about 45-50.   Yummy!  Enjoy this weeks box, most from our farm, some from the neighbor farms (i.e. beans).  I hope you have a great week and enjoy the beauty and bounty that is a fall in August. 

We have A LOT of tomatoes.  If you would like to do some preservation for winter, now is the time!  Get 20% off of 10# or more in the store!

*As a reminder we have “turned off” the chard and kale this week to let it rest and get fertigated (putting organic fertilizer/amendments through the irrigation to get the plants nutrients).  This week we put some on the leaves and soil.