Season drawing to a close...soon
The last delivery for the season are:
- Mahwah - Beth Haverim November 3/4th (this makes up the week postponed due to Rosh Hashanah)
- Jersey City & Hoboken - October 28th
- Hamburg - October 29th
- On-Farm Pickup - October 31st/November 1st
With the season ending soon, now is a good time for members to let us know if there are any veggies you would like to try for next year, as we plan our seed order over the winter. We always like to receive feedback so let us know if there is anything you would like to receive more of, or less of during the harvest season. Seasonal eating can be a challenge to many. Perhaps most feedback we receive during the year is about the members trying new veggies they would never have thought to buy at the supermarket, or are even available there. Of course there are no guarantees. Our best laid plans sometimes go awry (i.e. cauliflower) due to crop loses, but we do try. The harvest of the all-blue potatoes was a bit disappointing this year. Our yields were not as high as in years past. Red Norland & Yukon Gold potatoes will be coming in the weeks ahead, as these were just recently harvested. They too do not have as high yields as we had hoped. There was a lack of rain during the summer, and the fields that they were in were not on our irrigation system. The potatoes planted up at our fields by Scott’s also did not receive enough water during the time the potatoes start to “potato up”! Fruit – This week we have picked up Ida Red Apples from Windy Brow Farm located in Newton, NJ. Ida Red Apples were developed at the Idaho Experiment Station in Moscow, Idaho from a cross between Jonathan and Wagener.
From the Fields: We are still contemplating where to plant the garlic for next year. Leslie started cleaning up some of the fields, removing the stakes from the tomato plants. This area is where we hope to plant the garlic. We still have to pull up the dead plants, remove the plastic, add compost, till it, then make raised beds. All this before it gets too cold!The autumn leaves are almost at their peak and that probably will happen this week. We notice quite a dramatic change when driving down to Bergen & Hudson counties, where the leaves have hardly changed as of today.
Weather Report: Fortunately, we did not receive a heavy frost at the farm, though many of our neighboring farmers did get it. This gave us a chance to harvest some of the warmer weather crops for tonight’s delivery. The tomatoes were already pulled for last week’s delivery so it looks like the tomato season is over.
Upcoming Events: October is Garlic month!Date to be announced – Garlic Planting at the FarmSometime in early November – help us plant garlic for the 2009 season.
Farming Quote of the Week: Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift
End of Season Potluck Dinner All CSA members are invited to the end of season potluck dinner to be held in Hoboken on November 1st starting @ 7:30 pm Hoboken Historical Museum 1301 Hudson Street – Hoboken more details to follow next week
Pick of the Week: click on the links below or to the right to bring you to the delivery specific to your pick-up location. Deliveries will be of similar variety & poundage, but may contain different items. Occasionally, some crops are ready to harvest but not enough to deliver to all our drop-off locations. What we do is start to filter them in each week to a different drop-off until there is enough to delivery to everyone.
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