Wednesday, September 22, 2010

CSA - Week 15

Posted by: Kristie

CSA - Week 15

Happy First Day of Fall! Are you ready for the summer to be over? With tomatoes and sweet peppers in full swing, it's hard to feel that the summer is actually over.

But it does feel like the season at Camp Joy is shifting. We've lost two of our apprentices from the summer (Mika and Whitney), and we've gained a new person for the remainder of the season: Robert. The nights are getting cooler and the sun is disappearing over the hills earlier and earlier each evening. We're deep in canning, drying, freezing, and other preserving projects. (Hint: take advantage of the abundance table at CSA pick-up and experiment with your own preserving projects!) We've been juicing our apples and pears on a weekly basis. And I'm sure the days of firing up the woodstove are just around the corner.

One cannot live and work on the farm without tangibly feeling the shifting of the seasons. The rise and setting of the sun affect the hours we spend in the garden. Scorching hot sun mid-day sends us inside for siestas, extending our work day into the cooler evening hours. The temperature of the air governs the amount of time we spend chopping wood, creating kindling, and building fires in the woodstove. The first fruits of the season bring greater variety to our meals, and later, the abundance draws us to long hours in the kitchen, preserving. When the rains begin in the fall, our time spent irrigating the garden is freed up, as we attempt to "flood-proof" the farm, bringing the curing garlic and onions indoors...When will the rains begin this year? Time will tell.

What's in your box this week? onions, potatoes, garlic, leeks, sweet peppers, pears, apples, hot peppers, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, summer squash, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, dill, frisee, rosemary, kale, and basil.

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