foxlinecityfarm

Best season ever for us!  Thanks to all for sharing and making this “stay at home/urban farm” life possible for our family.  We are grateful.  The season zipped by and stayed strong all summer long. Thanks for the survey returns from our members.  The feedback on these surveys shape future seasons.  Our thoughts….. We are pleased with our crops and rotations this year.  Broccoli was abundant!, summer onions had a great harvest this season.  The peas-just amazing to us what we pulled from the vines.  We were thrilled that we were able to provide lettuce every week all season long with great variety.  We loved our baby cabbages and the high volume of kohlrabi.  Longest harvest window in a long time with the tomatoes this year.  Pepper harvest was almost too much this season and we think we may scale back a tiny bit next season.  Potatoes were almost too abundant but wonderful.  We are bringing back purple potatoes next year too-I finally convinced Scott.  A huge Thank you to Scott’s relatives the Raupp Family for the “Squash runway” and allowing us to plant our potatoes and sweet potatoes at your beautiful farm-we could not do this without their wonderful sandy soil.  The beans never overwhelmed us and we think we hit just about the right amount.  The watermelon vines tanked for some reason with many under ripe melons on the vines that we opted not to harvest.  We hoped for more melons but what we did harvest was delicious.  A bit of a disappointment.  Sweet potatoes also had a lower yield.  Again, what we harvested was good but we wanted more.  We are going to attempt to lengthen our cucumber rotation a bit this year.  We had tons! but they shut down too quickly in our opinion.  Our second big rotation of cucumbers never really did much-same as last year.  So, we have a better idea to attempt next season.  We always want more carrots!-and colorful carrots….the new hoop house will be dedicated to carrots, beets and a few other speciality root crops that we want to pamper and keep our eye on…We are already talking about next season!

COOL FACT-12,133 pounds of produce went home with our CSA members this season.

SUMMER SHARE #20 FINAL SHARE OF 2019

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE-honey, ginger, potatoes, garlic, spinach, butterhead lettuce, sweet potatoes, radishes, ornamental pumpkin on a stick bouquet, winter squash, broccoli side shoots(full only) and sprouted legumes (full only)

Full Share.

Snack Pack Share.

Honey-Backyard honey from our hives.  Enjoy!

Ginger-Just dug.  Great in stir fry, bakery and teas.  Short storage life in fridge.  Best to freeze.

Just dug ginger.

Potatoes-Red norland and the last to come from the field.

Potato digger just went through…

and we scurried to pick them up before dark.

Maeve kept bringing us crates….

Garlic- The last of the garlic.  We replant next week.

Spinach-Another great harvest from the hoop house….We love it steamed this time of year.

Lettuce-A butterhead.  Sweet and juicy.

Mini butterhead ready to harvest.

Sweet potatoes- A bounty in this share.  2 varieties.  Looooooong storage life.

Harvesting the last of the sweet potatoes and chatting on the phone…

Radishes-A huge bag of snappy gems….

Ready to wash.

Pumpkin on a stick bouquet-An eggplant that looks like baby pumpkins…Snip the stems and enjoy a seasonal bouquet.  Careful stems are picky like roses.

Squash-  Snack Pack 1 Full share 2.  Members select their choice from the washed collection.

Thanks for the season….Enrollment for 2020 opens January 1st to past members and general public February 1st.