Abbe Hills Farm CSA

Greetings shareholders,

This Saturday, we will have every kind of green you might need - lettuce, arugula, bok choi, Chinese cabbage, other Asian stir fry greens, mustards, collards, kale, and maybe some more I've forgotten.  We also have turnips, a few zukes, 1 more eggplant, few tomatoes and peppers, onions, radishes, lots of wonderful winter squash, and  herbs.  There are a few watermelons left so you can also have one of those if you didn't get one last week, or if the one you had was a stinker and you need a replacement.  The squash will be butternut, acorns, and spaghettis.  The spaghettis are a new kind and they look like they might not be ripe, but they are.  Actually, they taste kind of good, which is an unlikely compliment from me to a spaghetti squash!

Pick up is from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm.  Come by 2:00 if you can.  The greens as nicer before the sun comes around in the afternoon and shines inside the building.  Parking went wonderfully last Saturday.  Please do the same thing this weekend.

We're going to combine the field corn tomorrow, so that will be one more thing to check off the list for fall.  This afternoon, I tilled the spot where we will plant garlic as soon as I make sure that the alfalfa that is there is really dead.    I also broke out next year's potato patch this afternoon, which frankly, felt a little weird since we're still digging this year's potatoes.  A big group of students from Cornell came last Saturday and picked up over 2500 squash in about 2 hours.  Amazing.  And all they needed in return was some watermelon and to pet some kitties.  This Sunday, they are going to dig the rest of the potatoes and I'm paying them with s'mores and kittens to pet.  Isn't that a great deal!!!  I am really grateful for their help.  It would take me 4 weeks to do what they can do in an afternoon.

It's been great to have nice, clear, warm days to get so many of the fall tasks accomplished.  After tomorrow afternoon when the corn is out of the field, I'll be ready for a little bit of rain to clean off the top of the hoophouse and my sinuses, and to give everything in the fall garden a little drink.  Got to keep that spinach growing so we can get at least one good harvest out of it by the end of the month.

See you Saturday.

Laura