Farm Notes

Popping in for a quick farm update after a busy, but good week here at the farm! We’re in Week 2 of our fall CSA, and we’re grateful to have a colorful variety of late summer and early fall veggies filling our CSA member boxes. Our summer peppers, eggplant, and okra are still going strong, and tomatoes are making their final swan song of the season. Coming in hot are lots of fall root veggies like radishes and turnips, along with leafy greens like arugula, kale, and collards.

This week we started to pull out tomatoes from our caterpillar tunnel, which is a big, messy job (see photo below)! Our tomatoes have been growing in our tunnels since April (so for 6 months!) and it’s finally time to say goodbye and make room for the next season’s fall greens.

Yesterday we checked our sweet potatoes to see how the tubers were shaping up, and I’ll be honest… we weren’t thrilled! I’m noticing that the soil where the sweet potatoes are growing is pretty tough and clay-heavy, which has probably kept the tubers from growing as nicely as they would in a more sandy/compost-rich environment. We’ve decided to give them a few more weeks to size up, and will check them again in early October to see how they are doing. This is my first time growing sweet potatoes, so I’m learning lots as we go, and fingers crossed we get a nice harvest soon…!

Kitchen Notes

Even though our sweet potatoes aren’t ready quiiiite yet, now I’ve got sweet potatoes on the brain, and want to share a few favorite sweet potato recipes today!

Here’s a round up of some delish sweet potato dishes to get you inspired:

Today’s Stats

Low temp: 65F
High temp: 82F
Sunrise: 7:01am
Sunset: 7:21pm
Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous
Additional notes: Partly cloudy and lovely