7th Inning Stretch

This time of the CSA season sort of feels like that inning during a baseball game when everyone stands up, stretches out, looks around, does the wave, sort of takes it all in for a minute.  Most of the game has been played, but there are still a couple of promising...

Let’s Sweeten It Up A Bit

We have a pretty sweet share this week.  Our Watermelon are the best we have ever grown.  We have two varieties, Sunsweet and White Wonder.  The Sunsweet are the big, oval type and the White Wonder are round, more like a basketball.  They have white, incredibly juicy...

One More Round Please

The second round of sweet corn is finally ready!  Seems like a long wait, but I think it was only three weeks ago when we harvested the first planting.  Maybe this weather pattern makes it seem so long ago.  What happened to the “dog days” of summer?  We...
Dutch Country

Dutch Country

Welkum!  Heather and Jonas went to the Goschenhoppen folk festival this weekend.  They had the opportunity to take part in some chores of daily living from the 18th and 19th centuries.  Heather came away from it with an appreciation for how everything was used and...
Avalanche!

Avalanche!

I saw it coming a mile away and there was nothing I could do to stop it.  We are going to experience an avalanche of tomatoes!  Despite the fact that we ordered tomatoes that have a spaced out “days to maturity” number, they are all ripening at once.  We...