Warmer Weather
The weather has warmed up at the farm and we did have some rain to help the newly planted crops. The crops in the back field are doing well and we are ready to till up some of the beds in the front for garlic planting which we have tentatively set up for September 21st and probably another day will be scheduled in October (see Trip to the Farm info at the end of the newsletter). We are about ready to take down another row of tomatoes because they are at the end of their production. We are presently surprised that they have lasted this long with reports of late tomato blight all around us.
Michael’s last day was Friday the 30th as he heads off to his first year of college. He will be attending Ramapo College so he probably will be able to work some weekends over the course of the remaining weeks for the deliveries once he gets settled in. Already to crew is missing him!
The arugula in tonight’s delivery is from the on-farm greenhouse. The variety name is Rocket.
Franklin Greenhouse Report: We are planning on rolling over one bed in Franklin but haven’t been able to get to it this week. The broccoli raab is doing well and the celery should be harvested next week. The hot peppers are doing well with a few different varieties slated to be harvested.
From the Fields: All the seeded greens are up and doing well in the back field. The lettuce and spinach did not germinate so we replaced them with transplanted lettuce. Perhaps close to 1000 lettuces were transplanted. The newly transplanted squash and cucumbers are doing well though on a condensed timeline. We transplanted escarole into a few of the empty beds. The crew cleaned up the cabbage and broccoli patches to hopefully promote more production, as both of these crops did not do well.
The crew has been working on cleaning up the beds and weeding them following all the rain that we have had.
Fruit Report: The grapes from Marjorie View Vineyard will be mixed between Concord & Vanessa. The peaches are from Soones Orchards.
Animal report: The groundhog that had set up shop under the fava beans decide to come back to eat the tomatoes. Farmer Rich did talk it into leaving the premises. Apparently we have a “barn” cat that comes into the fields to clean up the smaller animals such as the voles and field mice. A bunch of hummingbirds arrived at the farm and enjoyed the nectar from the bee balm. We haven’t seen that many hummingbirds in quite a while.
Weather report: We always seem to be on the fringe of extensive rain storms. Daily there are severe weather warnings for isolated thunderstorms often with flood warnings. This past week we only had about ½” of rain, but the weather warnings were all around us. Just ¼ mile away there was no rain but we got poured on during an early afternoon Sunday rain storm. The rain is making the fall greens really happy in the back field.
Trip to the Farm – September 21st
Help Plant Garlic
- All CSA members are invited to help out early this year with planting garlic. We will also have another day scheduled in late October.
Start Time: 11:00 am on September 21st - 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
Upcoming Events
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| Sussex County Harvest, Honey & Garlic Festival | Annual Heirloom Garlic Festival – |
September 3rd - 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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