final csa of the year

this is it. we are hoping to go out with a bang. pumpkins. these are cooking pumpkins and dont forget to bake the seeds. small cabbages tomorrow and sweet potatoes - white variety, they are a little dirty as i had to dig them in the mud. sidenote - these sweet potatoes were grown in a third year hugelkultur bed and were NEVER watered. it was incredible. they looked shiny and green even through the five week dry spell in august. hugelkultur is the stuff. augo is making a documentary about it. now its time for the five disappointments of the season. coincidentally they all start with C.

carrots - supposedly they are great companions to tomatoes.  tomatoes overgrew them.

cantaloupes - virus

cukes - virus

collards  -  chowed by the looper. thought i had beat the cycle.

corn  -  raccoons

thanks to everyone for participating in CSA.  we will have broccolli and green tomatoes and other things but you have to come to the STICKY WICKET - October 26th, saturday all day to get those. it is a croquet tournament - potuluck. hope to see everyone there but see you tomorrow.

CSA 10.10

I first got interested in farming my senior year of college after reading Wendell Berry's "The decline of american culture and agriculture". i have read many other things from wendell over the years but hadn't heard much from him for a while until yesterday i read "wendell berry, poet and prophet calls for revolution". he is calling for an immediate end to industrial farming and a return to the sustainable farming methods of the past.  I'm taking him for his word here. tomorrow - the sweet potato rebellion.
(more sweet potatoes next week if we don't pull it off)

csa thurs

due to the gummint shutdown we will not be cutting the chard tomorrow. we are going to be bringing in more watermelons which have had mixed reviews. the last one i cut wasnt ripe.  some said theirs was good. if yours wasnt  - tell barb and get another one.  maybe let it sit around for a few days. there will be more next week for the bad melon hat trick. i have had some good ones. me and augo ate one last week that was the best ever.  csa was going to end next week but we are going in to "postseason" so at least 2 more after tomorrow. great brocs and cabbages forming slowly. good recipe for zucchini - fry in garlic and olive oil, slightly brown it, throw zuke away and eat the pan.