CSA Week 8 , take 2

Hmm,  my prediction  of this week's Share Items was way off. We ended up putting eggplant in instead of the daikon and potatoes because the eggplant matured earlier. Classic seasonal eating.  

 Things change quickly on the farm.  Rain, heat, bugs, disease--- you really just never know what's gonna happen.  

For example, the vigorous cucumber vines we had  just 1 week ago are now yellow and crunchy, crawling with insects.  
 (Fortunately, our next planting of cucumbers is doing really well….)

So my share item listing will generally be about 80% accurate.  We are farmers, not  vendors, not middlemen.   Farmers  operate within a biological system, one that we don’t always have control of.   It would be very easy (and probably more profitable) to go to a commercial produce warehouse and buy all the crops that i said would be in your share.

 Sure, eating with the seasons comes with some uncertainty. The occasional inconveniences and crop failures are usually  offset by another crop that does great.  We think that the privilege of growing, of sharing, and of eating fresh local food is well worth it.  

when the lighting is right, you can see the little golden hairs all over their leaves and stems.

a lady bug before it gets it's shiny red wings. it is eating aphids (the little brown bugs in the upper left corner)

a very dead tomatoe hornworm