Trip to the Farm – Sunday 10/23 & Next Week – Last Delivery of the Season
We did manage to get the garlic beds ready for planting garlic this Sunday. It was too muddy for most of the month, but Farmers Rich, John & Matt were finally able to work in that field and get the beds tilled, fertilized & wrapped and the beds are now ready for planting. We hope that many of you will be able to join us in planting on Sunday. Please see Trip to the Farm below.
Garlic Beds being wrapped for planting
We are making it to the end of the season & what a season it has been! Never have we never had as much rain in one season as this year. We even had an additional ¾” this past week. We appreciate all the support and feedback we have received during this difficult year. The crew has worked very hard the past several weeks to ensure we have deliveries for this week and next and are sure that you all appreciate their efforts.
From the Fields: The season is winding down with just 1 more delivery. The lettuces, sorrel, microgreens, sunchokes, squash, rosemary are all slated for harvest for the final week. This of course is all subject to a heavy frost, snow, hail storm or 4-legged intruders!
Weather Report: It has been unusually warm for this time of year, aside for a few mornings where we had to turn the heat on the greenhouse to warm up before harvesting.
Fruit Report –The pears are from Soons Orchard in Middletown, NY. The Seckel is thought to be a hybrid of Asian and European pears. It is believed to be a truly American pear and named in honor of a Pennsylvania farmer who discovered it around 1820. It is quite different from any European variety, and it happens to be the smallest of all commercially grown pears and sometimes called a sugar pear.
Animal Report – The Annual Wooly Bear Caterpillar is in! This has become an annual part of the newsletter 
for the past 16 years and for the most part has been pretty accurate. Weather folklore enthusiasts have long assessed that the woolly bear caterpillar is one insect that is supposed to give us some insight as to how severe the winter will be.
It is said that if the middle stripe is narrower than either of the black stripes, the winter will be severe. Conversely, if the center stripe is wide, we’ll have a mild winter. If all the stripes are the same size, we’ll have an average winter. This year, we have observed very thick center stripes on the Wooly Bear caterpillars seen, so perhaps a mild winter is on the horizon. We can only image is all the rain we received this year was snow – we would be buried right now and not able to compose any newsletters.
Trip to the Farm – SCHEDULED for October 23rd
Help Plant Garlic
· All CSA members are invited to help out planting garlic for the final trip to the farm this year
· Start Time: 11:00 am on October 23rd
· Planting Garlic is a great family activity & very easy!!
· We’ll starting popping the garlic then proceed to the field to plant followed by mulching
· We’ll break for a late lunch (around 2:30 pm) with Farmer Sue’s famous campfire recipes Please RSVP so that we may plan lunch & refreshments
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End of Season Potluck Dinner Is being planned for November 19th @ the Hoboken Historical Museum
More details will follow next week – Save the Date!!
Week of October 17th - 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 at anytime during the season. 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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