October 8th, 2025
What’s in your share?
Radishes
Bok Choy (or broccoli)
Summer Crisp Head Lettuce
Salad Mix
Leeks
Oneida Gold Potatoes
Pasture update: In Spring 2024 we planted our “backfield”, the 9-acres of arable land behind the veggie field, to a perennial pasture mix. Previously in conventional corn and soy for decades, this land needed serious remediation. We’ve been hiring a friend to mow the grass twice each season, so that noxious weeds (thistle!!! does it ever end?!?! ahhhh!!!) don’t go to seed and continue to spread. We aren’t in the market to buy a big tractor, because we don’t need one for cultivating our veggies, so hiring someone with a commercial mower was the right option for us. The swath (as the pros call it, apparently) after mowing, is still a bit patchy, but everything we planted is there and filling in the gaps. We’re in a position to now keep it mowed on our own, mowing every other week to keep the grass healthy.
We’re working with several organizations to get trees planted in the field (hopefully in Spring 2026), in tidy rows that will provide a shady canopy for the inevitable rotational grazing that we’re planning for once the pasture is healthy enough to feed small livestock. Stay tuned! Growing pasture and trees are lifelong projects - ones that we can only hope to see the fruits of - but we are planting in good faith that someone will carry out our love for the land long after we’re no longer here to tend it.
Eatin’ Good! We’re ramping up our dinner parties over here and hope to next year have a cute little dining area to invite you over to dinner.