November 06, 2007
Here is the last share of the season: potatoes, beets, cabbage, brussel sprouts, squash, onions, kale, celeriac.
It was great to catch up with the folks who came up this past weekend & braved the chilly cold to help us get the last of the garlic in. It is always nice to connect with NYC members - to put a face to the consumer. Just as being a CSA member connects you to the farmland and farmers, as CSA farmers we get to actually know the people who eat our food. This can all feel a little theoretical when we don't see each other, so visits are a great way to connect.
It is finally time for us to slow way down and boy, are we really looking forward to it. Even though the end of the CSA is here there are still quite a few things going on at the farm.
One of Dan's winter projects is to take down a greenhouse and move it to our farm. Our colleague, Irving Wasley of blueberry fame has generously offered his small greenhouse to us. Dan's going tomorrow to take it down and bring it back to our place. Later on he'll put it up, attaching it to our small greenhouse to make it bigger. Our little greenhouse gets crowded pretty early on in the season so this is just the right solution for us. We'll move our seeding area and our propagation mats (heat box for starting tomato seedlings) into the addition, leaving more room for flats of seedlings in by the heater.
Dan is also itching to build some pastured poultry pens so we can have a few batches of chickens for us next year. And sorry, by "us" I mean just the family. But it is great to hear that Stonewall is doing chicken shares now. It is so great to have our own pork and lamb and Cockerline's beef, but we do eat a lot of chicken, too. Our neighbor Chris just got a chicken plucker. It is staying in our barn, so we'll get to use it, too. It seems like the obvious next step for us - to raise our own meat birds. Mmmm.... Looking forward to it already.
So that is a little bit about what we'll be doing this winter as well as seeing family, enjoying the holidays and hopefully doing some snow shoeing or hiking.
Hope everyone enjoyed the season of veggies and hope you'll be back for another great year!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Dan & Tracy
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