A Note from Layton | Cold Season Seeding
August 22, 2024
We’re nearly finished with our seeding and planting for the 2024 season. Fall greens like tatsoi, mizuna and other mustards; herbs like cilantro, dill and chervil that grow stout and piquant with the cooling nights; roots that will sweeten in cold snaps of October and November. Late August is such a bittersweet time. While we begin to taste-test from our melon patch, we’re also transplanting storage cabbages, cauliflower and other crops that will accompany us into the winter.
While our Summer Shareholders (read: you!) will enjoy many of these crops this autumn, most of these crops are for our Winter CSA– one of the best-kept secrets of our community farm. The Winter CSA, which begins just before Thanksgiving, offers a wide array of fresh veggies (greens, herbs and the like), storage crops (sweet potatoes, winter squash, beets et al), and other value-added and otherwise unusual items to bolster your pantry through the winter (smoked and dried peppers, popcorn, dry beans, roasted tomatoes etc).Read more and sign up here!
Many of you have pulled me aside to offer feedback, largely positive and some constructive, on the farm so far this season. Beautiful flowers (great)! Tiny potatoes (kind of a drag)! Abundant tomatoes (we love)! Just as our work calls us to foster a deeper relationship between you, the eater, and the food that nourishes you and your family, we also believe strongly in making visible the work that enables such a bounty and, in particular, the farmers who work tirelessly to sow, plant, weed, and care for nearly 30 acres of farmland to feed you and 350+ other families each year. So if you can, please thank your farmers, without whom none of this would be possible.
Take care, and see you in the fields,
Layton