Dear All,
the end of our CSA summer season is near. Today is Potsdam's last pick up, Tuesday will be Canton's. We made you up a nice last box. Thank you s much for your commitment and support. The CSA accounts for about 40% of our income and is certainly the most fun part of growing and selling. You have been wonderful in your comments and in putting all those veggies to good use. If you have any feed back on how the season went for you, please let us know. We want to know what worked and what not and how we can do better (amounts, times....)
Click here for the Winter Share form. Please fill it out and send it to me soon, so I can plan ahead. It was hard to estimate amounts, since carrots, parsnips and beets are still out growing. Yesterday we harvested all the celeriac and the cooler is starting to fill up until the basement cools down enough for winter storage. The new root washer saves time and the hands don't have to be for hours in cold spray water. At lunch I made the first mid day fire to be warm inside and it is hard to go back outside, even thought the weather is sunny.
Last weekend I was in Boston visiting Seba. He moved to a new house and was still in a bit of chaos because the house was left with stuff and very dirty, stinky by the previous tenants. As a good mamma I brought him a bed to be put on tall legs for storage underneath from the abandoned Birdsfoot Log-house and 40lbs of root vegetables. And since the boy does not have much time to cook I cooked and froze the veggies in the mornings while waiting for him to wake up. I also had brought 10 bags of cellulose insulation for the attic above his room that had no insulation. The walls are another project next time. He is gonna be cold , but the ceiling is insulated now. It is amazing that Boston people don't think about insulation that much. I think he learned his lesson to check the next time he rents a place.
I have to work on getting the barn ready for Carol and Daisy to come home. We will have our own manure to put on the garlic this year! Carol got bred and I hope that she is good to go now. We know in a few weeks if she is mooing our heads off again or not. Next week we will let Daisy back together with her and see if she tries to nurse. I hope not. If she does, I got this spiky nose ring that we can put on, so Carol will not like it. We keep you posted.
The two remaining ducks are still in refuge at neighbor Isis farm. We hop to fix up the fence with electric top wire yo deter racoons. We still don't know what got the last ducks.
I hope you enjoy these beautiful fall days and get to be outside. The first Winter Share pick up is Friday October 24th at the Caamanos house in Potsdam 4.30pm and at the Oey house in Canton 4pm. Hope to see you,
Dulli
the end of our CSA summer season is near. Today is Potsdam's last pick up, Tuesday will be Canton's. We made you up a nice last box. Thank you s much for your commitment and support. The CSA accounts for about 40% of our income and is certainly the most fun part of growing and selling. You have been wonderful in your comments and in putting all those veggies to good use. If you have any feed back on how the season went for you, please let us know. We want to know what worked and what not and how we can do better (amounts, times....)
Click here for the Winter Share form. Please fill it out and send it to me soon, so I can plan ahead. It was hard to estimate amounts, since carrots, parsnips and beets are still out growing. Yesterday we harvested all the celeriac and the cooler is starting to fill up until the basement cools down enough for winter storage. The new root washer saves time and the hands don't have to be for hours in cold spray water. At lunch I made the first mid day fire to be warm inside and it is hard to go back outside, even thought the weather is sunny.
Last weekend I was in Boston visiting Seba. He moved to a new house and was still in a bit of chaos because the house was left with stuff and very dirty, stinky by the previous tenants. As a good mamma I brought him a bed to be put on tall legs for storage underneath from the abandoned Birdsfoot Log-house and 40lbs of root vegetables. And since the boy does not have much time to cook I cooked and froze the veggies in the mornings while waiting for him to wake up. I also had brought 10 bags of cellulose insulation for the attic above his room that had no insulation. The walls are another project next time. He is gonna be cold , but the ceiling is insulated now. It is amazing that Boston people don't think about insulation that much. I think he learned his lesson to check the next time he rents a place.
I have to work on getting the barn ready for Carol and Daisy to come home. We will have our own manure to put on the garlic this year! Carol got bred and I hope that she is good to go now. We know in a few weeks if she is mooing our heads off again or not. Next week we will let Daisy back together with her and see if she tries to nurse. I hope not. If she does, I got this spiky nose ring that we can put on, so Carol will not like it. We keep you posted.
The two remaining ducks are still in refuge at neighbor Isis farm. We hop to fix up the fence with electric top wire yo deter racoons. We still don't know what got the last ducks.
I hope you enjoy these beautiful fall days and get to be outside. The first Winter Share pick up is Friday October 24th at the Caamanos house in Potsdam 4.30pm and at the Oey house in Canton 4pm. Hope to see you,
Dulli
