Catalpa Ridge News–Volume 19–No 9–August 18, 2014

Heirloom Tomato Tasting Sunday

We hope you join us on Sunday for the Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting at the Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street August 24^th 1-5 pm. We will have a great selection this year of heirloom tomatoes and farm fresh seasonal produce will be for sale as well. It is always great to meet our CSA members so if you are in town on Sunday stop by.
Franklin Greenhouse Report:  The crops continue to do well in our Franklin greenhouse and the newly planted crops are coming along nicely. We should have two beds to transplant this week and the seeded beets are already up. Our hot pepper plants continue to produce.

From the Fields:  On Monday the crew cleaned up beds for transplanting but it did get too hot to actually transplant. We didn’t want to chance transplanting in to the plastic mulch as the plants would “fry”. We  finally tilled up one section in the main field only to find it was too dry to put the beds in so that project is on hold momentarily. We did find a nice rock the size of a small car which was a surprise as we have been working these fields for the past 20 years. Apparently, it was located just to the side of the old greenhouse which was destroyed
during Hurricane Sandy and never was noticed before. I guess it just worked its way to the surface.

Weather Report: Cooler temps have moved in and the crew is finding that they need flannel shirts and gloves to work in the early mornings. It is almost like October weather. The dry conditions continue and it is taking its toll on the back field. We just can’t get enough water back there so we are concentrating on saving the crops in the main & round fields. While it did rain in the area, such a Montague 2”; we didn’t receive any.

 Animal report: The only issue this week is one of the rabbits is enjoying a few tastes of kale. The groundhog has stayed outside the fence and that is a good thing.  It seems that there is a “crop” of late baby animals this year. Since it was a rough spring perhaps they all got a late start. This week we sighted some examples, such as a mama bear with two very tiny cubs as well as very small polts (turkey) and a baby-baby deer. Of course the latest crop of rabbits went from 6 to 12!

 Upcoming Events
Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting – Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street August 24^th 1-5 pm
Farm Fresh Seasonal Produce for sale as well.
Sussex County Harvest, Honey & Garlic FestivalCelebrating the best in Sussex County and Northern NJ Agritourism, Ecotourism and Heritage Tourism - October 11^th Sussex County Fairgrounds 10am-4pm
Annual Heirloom Garlic Festival – Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street - October 12^th 1-5 pm Farm Fresh Seasonal Produce for sale as well.

• August 18th  - 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.
•  Recipe Links
  Beth Haverim Shir Shalom Delivery
  Hoboken Midtown Delivery
  Hoboken West Delivery
  United Synagogue of Hoboken