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Happy Back to School to all the kid’s in our CSA Family.  Hope it was a great first week.

Maeve getting off the bus on the 1st day of school.

Hope everyone enjoyed the long holiday weekend.  It always seems to me that Labor Day is the good-bye send off to Summer and the door cracking  open to Autumn.  My favorite time of the year.

A wonderful rain here this morning after the hot dry week we had.  Perfect for all the new little Autumn seedlings starting in the garden.

We chugged along last week in the heat.  Keeping the new seedlings moist in the garden and hoop house was a focus everyday.  We weeded around the last cabbbage and broccoli crops, seeding in some late greens on the hoop house, dug and dug potatoes, and started the great pear harvest.  Our duties are shifting with the season and it feels good.

SUMMER SHARE #15

Shares ready to go home today!

Another amazing week of goodies….enjoy!  We just crested the 1000 pound goal.  1026 pounds going home this week.

SNACK PACK

Purple Potatoes-The variety is called Magic Molly and they are delicious!  The prettiest mashed potatoes.  Pale lavender and creamy.  Can be boiled baked or fried too.  A fun surpise at dinner.  I made purple potato salad for a family gathering this past weekend with these beauties and it was a hit.

Magic Molly Potatoes fresh from the field.

Another heart tucked in someone’s share as a surprise.

Pears!-Perfect Pears!!  An amazing pear harvest for us this year.  Best ever.  What a treat for all.  This variety is the second to ripen.  Creamy and sweet.  Unfortunately several years ago I misplaced all the labels and our site planting map so not sure of the variety.

Scott harvesting high in the tree.

Maeve picking the low beauties.

A pear for canning this week.

Mini Pepper Mix-This crop is just starting to come on strong.  A big harvest of these gems for the shares this week.

Mini Sweet Peppers on the plant. It was so muggy that day the camera was fogging up.

Pretty mini sweet peppers at harvest.

Sweet Pepper-1 larger sweet pepper. We harvested Carmens, Biscayne, colorful Bells, and thick walled Pizza peppers this week.  1 will appear in your share.

Ground Cherries-A pint of these tasty sweet treats.

Cherry Tomato Mix-A 1/2 pint mix this week.

Packing the Cherry Tomatoes for the shares.

Heirloom Slice Tomato-1 for all this week.  Our heirloom slicers have peaked for the season.

Celery-Great celery flavor.  Use for soups and stews.  Add to stir frys or the leaves are wonderful added to mix salads.

Salsa Kits-Now this is fun!  Everything you need to make a batch of homemade salsa.  Kit included…..tomatoes, jalapeno, storage onion, garlic, and cilantro.  Enjoy!

Cilantro at harvest.

Jalapeno plants were loaded this week.

Sunflower Bouquet-A beautiful Mixed bouquet to welcome Autumn into your home.

Cutting the sunflowers in the field.

Cantaloupe or Watermelon-1 or the other will appear in your share.  This is the end of our melon season.

Maeve’s usual mode of heading to the melon patch.

Taste test.

FULL SHARE

Purple Potatoes-The variety is called Magic Molly and they are delicious!  The prettiest mashed potatoes.  Pale lavender and creamy.  Can be boiled baked or fried too.  A fun surpise a meal time.  I made purple potato salad for a family gathering this past weekend with these beauties and it was a hit.

Purple potatoes drying after washing.

Purple Potato Salad preperations.

Pears!-Perfect Pears!!  An amazing pear harvest for us this year.  Best ever.  What a treat for all.  This variety is the second to ripen.  Creamy and sweet.  Unfortunately several years ago I misplaced all the labels and our site planting map so not sure of the variety.

Pear Harvest.

Maeve taking a snack break.

Sweet Pepper-We harvested Carmens, Biscayne, colorful Bells, and thick walled Pizza peppers this week.  2 will appear in your share.

Sweet Pepper harvest.

Ground Cherries-A pint of these tasty sweet treats.

Cherry Tomato Mix-A 1/2 pint mix this week.

Heirloom Slice Tomato-1 for all this week.  Our heirloom slicers have peaked for the season.

Celery-Great celery flavor.  Use for soups and stews.  Add to stir frys or the leaves are wonderful added to mix salads.

Salsa Kits-Now this is fun!  Everything you need to make a batch of homemade salsa.  Kit included…..tomatoes, jalapeno, storage onion, garlic, and cilantro.  Enjoy!

Jalapenos in the garden.

Cilantro “harvest” in the green house.

Sunflower Bouquet-A beautiful Mixed bouquet to welcome Autumn into your home.

Ready to make bouquets.

Eggplant-1-2 in each share this week.  They loved the heat last week and we had a great harvest.

What a beauty.

Cantaloupe or Watermelon.  1 or the other will appear in your share.  This is the end of our melon season.

Field Check.  Pretty!

Scott and Maeve hauling up the last melon harvest at dusk.

Zucchini-The new crop is just starting to really produce.  Nice to have these back in the shares again.

Arugula-A nice sized bag to spice up the week.  Snappy in salads and great on pizza.

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-peppers, edamame, pac choi, spaghetti squash, summer squash, tomatoes, brussels sprouts (really!), lettuce, radish, broccoli and more…..

The early Brusslels Sprouts are almost ready.

ALL! Brussels Sprouts. 4 varieties are out there.