This week's share contains tomatoes, potatoes,  peppers, eggplant, onions, arugula, fennel (smells like black licorice), radish, cucumbers, and collards.  The collards are the big flat green leaves.   They are good sautéed and in stews.   You can also use them as a wrap, filled with rice or whatever.   

After 3 seasons without much deer damage, they have caught up with us this year.  We've lost a bunch of melons and lettuce and sweet potatoes.  Most significantly, the deer have obliterated 3 of our carrot plantings-  a total of over 4000 row feet.   This is why you haven't seen carrots in your shares.  As you can see in the pictures below, we have not given up!  We seeded a 5th planting of carrots and put up a few solar powered electric fences.   So you should be seeing carrots again towards the end of the season.
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baby carrots inside the deer fence
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sweet potatoes in another deer fence
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fighting through the tomato vines
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the future
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killing weeds
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weeds killed
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aging gracefully
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our kind of chaos
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