Last delivery next week
As the season winds down (just 1 more delivery) we are harvesting aggressively. Looking forward to next season as we actually starting working towards next season just as this season ends. This includes cleaning up the fields, re-arranging our perennial crops, take down the trellises for the tomatoes & cucumbers and replace about 150’ of fence. Farmer Rich also has to repair all the greenhouses, from recovering the greenhouse plastic to reframing the heated greenhouse. As we don’t use any treated lumbar the base of the heated greenhouse is in a state of desperate repair. We still have potatoes in the ground as we did not get enough help to pick them, despite reaching out to all the members to assist. If we can’t get them out by next week, they will be used for seed for next year. A Garlic planting trip to the farm is scheduled for November 3rd and we hope that many of your will come up to help!
From the Fields: The bugs are on a rampage in the fields, probably due to the warmer weather this past week. We usually don’t have a problem this time of year. They wiped out most of the shanghai cabbage, most of the collards and they are producing most of the wholly greens you are seeing tonight.
Animal Report: Another quiet week at the farm. No action other than sparrows chasing the blue birds again.
Fruit Report – Empire Apples –Freshly picked from Windy Brow Farm.
Work Day @ the Farm: It Garlic Time! Come out for a stinkin’ day of fun at the farm:
· Work Day at the Farm – Saturday NOVEMBER 3rd 11 am to ??– Garlic planting day
· (this also happens to be Farmer Rich’s birthday – so we’ll have a birthday cake)
· Please RSVP so we can plan a nice seasonal lunch
· Dress in layers – you never know what the weather will be
· Projects include garlic popping (preparing the bulbs into individual cloves
· Garlic planting
· Mulching
· In just a few hours we can plant hundreds of cloves
· A great family fun day!
Prepared Garlic Treats!
We can offer members some prepared garlic products from August’s Harvest:
Pickled Garlic Crunch
Pickled Garlic Flowers
Red Pepper Garlic Dipping Sauce
More info on www.jerseygrown.com – they make nice gifts for the holiday season.
Just e-mail us your order & we’ll e-mail you an invoice to pay via credit card!
LAST DELIVERY of the SEASON– NEXT WEEK
Pick of the Week: Click on the link below (or on the right) for your drop-off location. This time of year the deliveries will be the same in pounds & variety but may include different items at each location.
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