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csa week12 aug 27-30

8/26/2013

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this weeks share consists of mesclun lettuce, tatsoi, eggplant, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, beans, carrots, patty pan summer squash,  watermelon!, and broccoli. 
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the presence of this this well camouflaged salamander offers us a clue that we are actually farming in nature's image.
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we try to pick our squash before these disgusting squash bugs take over.
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CSA week11, Aug 20-23

8/20/2013

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This week's share consists of carrots, salad turnips, kale, garlic, cilantro, tomatoes, cucumbers, patty pan summer squash, peppers, and another little sunflower.   The peppers come in several shapes, but none of them are hot.  the cilantro is the small bunch; it looks similar to parsley.  it is best uncooked, and is a key ingredient in fresh salsa.   
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the watering never stopped. we use little sprinklers for the young crops,
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and a big gun for the more established crops
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Rockport farmers market on Saturday mornings
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disease settling into some of our field tomatoes
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fortunately, the hoophouse creates a micro-climate that discourages many of the diseases common in field tomatoes
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as a friend put it, "the crows gored out ugly wells through skin and flesh, which rotted to hell in the heat and stunk of failed sweetness....juice leaking into dust."
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but the crows didn't get all the melons. there will be watermelons in next weeks share.
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washup
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she's helping to prevent the bad bugs from eating our basil. we encourage such things.
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teeming with life! (in case the picture isn't clear, 4 of the flowers have bees on them)
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csa week 10, aug 12-15

8/12/2013

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This week's share consists of tomatoes!, carrots, beans, onions, lettuce, peppers, eggplant, collard greens, zucchini, cucumbers, dill, and a sunflower.
 
Here are pictures of how these crops look before we pick them. I've labeled them all, even the obvious, because some of the pics had too much sunlight.

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so much love in a mist
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tomatoes
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mature carrots
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young carrots
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beans
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lettuce
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peppers
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eggplant
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more eggplant
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collard greens
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zuchinni
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cucumbers
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dill
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sunflowers, just beginning to bloom
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a few hours ago...
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csa wk9 Aug6-9

8/6/2013

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this weeks share, clockwise from bottom left: green beans, yellow summer squash, beets, kale, various sizes and colors of eggplant, white salad turnips, bok choi, garlic, more eggplant. not shown, but also in the share: carrots, lettuce, and basil.
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the future: baby arugula, chard, tatsoi, cilantro dill, mesclun lettuce, beets, carrots and beans. we expect to harvest these in september and october
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baby flying saucer shaped 'pattty pan" summer squash- bottom left of center.
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curing onions and garlic in our greenhouse/workshop/crop storage facility
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happy to be done with one of this morning's weeding and irrigating projects. drip irrigation lines on baby scallions on left
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in bloom!
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