Farm Happenings This was a whirlwind of a week in the best possible way. We had a great clean-up day in Irene’s field while hosting St. Lawrence students, picking down the pepper plants, lopping the spent sunflowers, harvesting beets and feeding lots of plant material to the chickens. The earlier parts of the season are Continue reading

Farm Happenings October has arrived and there is 4 weeks left in the farm share, which ends on Halloween. The foods available during the season is an arc of different items. As the final weeks unfurl, you will see less items on the board. There won’t be the sheer glut of high season with the Continue reading

Looks like the forecast is calling for around 40 degrees nights this week. Enjoy the tender basil now, before it’s only a memory. Ditto for the lemon verbena, it’s excellent steeped in hot water. Drink as a tea with a stir of honey or chill to enjoy. Come bury a seed vessel with us! littleGrasse Continue reading

We started to harvest the leeks this month and they are stocked in the shareholder fridge. You might notice the leeks have been cut shorter than in years past. For the first time in our 12 years growing here, there’s widespread infestation of an insect pest that burrows in the upper greens. It’s unfortunate, but Continue reading

Farm Happenings The average last frost date in Canton is September 20th. Until there is a hard freeze, we will have beans, tomatoes, eggplants, hot peppers, basil and a couple other sensitive crops. While the hard frost marks a change, there’s still much to look forward to in October including an incredible crop of carrots Continue reading

Farm Happenings The new Free choice shareholders had orientations this week and are out enjoying the fields already. There’s a few summer shares that have wrapped up for the season. A note on peppers: This hasn’t been the easiest pepper year for us. As summer shares will recall, we lost most of our plants to late Continue reading

Farm Happenings The Free Choice, Fall only share starts this week. If you see any new faces around the farm, give them a warm hello! On Friday it was noticeable when there was finally a break in the heat. We started to dig the potatoes, and there’s fresh ones in the washstand. We had 7 weeks Continue reading

Farm Happenings There’s been lots to harvest these days as I am sure you have seen the bounty in the washstand. We keep on a schedule, restocking the fridge and table items three times a week, and as needed. You’ve seen the abundance in the cabbage, summer squash, onion and cucumber crop. Now we add Continue reading