foxlinecityfarm

Last Box Pick up today!  What an amazing season for all of us.  We are thrilled, a little bit proud and greatly relieved we survived and flourished through the difficult drought of 2012.  Scott and I both feel it is the best CSA season yet for us.  We hope you feel the same.  Thank you all for sharing.  We had our goal check off list for the year and were able to succeed in reaching most.  We wanted a steady bounty of green beans and we were able to provide this.  I really wanted to grow a killer watermelon patch this year.  We harvested over 200 of these beauties throughout the season and we just ate the last one this week.  We have never grown cauliflower well in the past and even in the extreme heat of the summer were able to get a small crop that was tasty this year.  Our pepper harvest was one of the best ever and the leeks were large and flavorful.  It was a fabulous tomato year and we are happy with the varieties we choose to grow.  The reflections on our disappointments seem to be heat and drought related.  We had a terrible time with carrot germination.  Our Number 1 disappointment was that we had such a small offering of carrots this year.  We had several failed plantings as carrot seed will not germinate over 90 degrees.  We tried and 1000 of seeds were planted.  So, watch out next year!  We have the carrot beds ready and we are starting early to ensure a bountiful crop.  The peas were pretty wimpy due to the early Spring heat too.  Our vines usually tower over our heads when harvesting and this year most only grew to knee or waist height.  Again a heat problem we have no control over.  Peas like it cool and wet.  We always try to have lettuce every week and we missed a few this year due to bolting in the heat.  100’s of heads were composted weekly in the worst of the drought and heat and we are grateful for the delicious harvest we did have.  Every season has unique challenges and I feel we did well rolling with what was given to us.  The water consumption was pretty worrisome and at times overwhelming but we took it day by day.  And finally I am going to spend this winter figuring out how to properly post recipes on the blog so we will have weekly recipes with each box next season.

Here is the best part…..We keep notes on all the produce in our boxes and have weekly weigh ins.  Final weight is 226.87 pounds of food for the season not including the weight of the tomatoes, melons, flowers  or any of the extras.  This averages out to $1.49 a pound for the contents in the box.  I am sure if we included the melons and tomatoes we would be well under $1 pound for quality fresh fun produce.  Pretty amazing!

Thank You!

The last box folks is a huge one!!!!  Enjoy all of the goodies and see you next season.

what is in your super jumbo heavy amazingly full last box.

Squash-2 tasty butternuts

Potatoes-2+ pounds for everyone

Leeks-A favorite of the season in our family!

Fennel-Beautiful Bulbs.

Turnips-A combo bunch of reds and whites.

Onion-3 nice sized white beauties.

Garlic-Several heads of German hard neck.

Pac Choi-Beautiful and juicy.

Lettuce/Spinach Mix-Very sweet.

Arugula-This crop has had an amazing run this Fall.  We bagged it separately from the lettuce/spinach just in case it is a bit spicy for some of you.

Brussels Sprouts-Another great crop this Fall with nice firm sweet heads.

Collard Greens-My favorite green this year!  Love it in stir fries and as my bread “replacement” with sandwiches.  I just make a wrap like a burrito.

Rosemary-Remember to dry some for winter meals..