Farmer Mike and Grammy Raymond
 Early winter seedings beginning to size up  With a few blankets for these cool evenings.  from bottom, clockwise: butternut winter squash, carrots, onions, bok choi, radish, red and greenleaf lettuces, spinach, and white salad turnips The Fall Share will have 4 distributions, all on Tuesdays- November 7th and 21st, and December 5th and 19th. 3-5pm Beverly, Topsfield, Reading, and Hamilton. Crops will include lettuce, spinach, arugula, tatsoi, carrots, beets, salad turnips, cilantro, dill, cabbage, kale, chard, garlic, onions, fennel and butternut squash. $150  This week's share, clockwise from bottom: tomatoes, zuchinni, onions, cilantro, eggplant (buried under greens), lettuce, carrots, celery, and cucumbers  This week's share, clockwise from bottom: carrots, "green" onions, zucchini and summer squash, small green garlic, mild red asian greens, red leaf lettuce, beets, white salad turnips, and upright tatsoi This week's share: broccoli, arugula, radish, salad turnips, tatsoi, basil, garlic scapes, lettuce and fennel. The broccoli has a distinctive yellowish tint and is full flavored. Be certain to get it into the refrigerator ASAP. We have loads of beautiful basil now, but it most likely will become diseased soon. (The "basil downy mildew" pathogen is airborne and moves up from the south every summer.) The date of its arrival for any given season is a function of wind patterns. It's often feast or famine with these veggies. This week's share has plenty of basil and garlic scapes; so......make pesto now, or you may have to wait until next year. Happy Independence Day!  The "scapes" of the garlic plant are actually it's flower stalk and (unopened) flower.  our nice basil crop with a not so nice living grass mulch  We only see the sun rise on the North side of the greenhouse for about 2 months of the year  Colorado Potato Bastards!  Black Swallowtail on our watermelon vine. |
