Acorn squash, and your first taste of fall salad greens

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This week's share

Garlic - 2 heads
Acorn Squash - 2
Sweet Peppers - 4
Tomatoes - 1 ripening, several green
Salad mix - 1 small bag
Basil - 1 large bag

Optional:
Okra - 1.5 pounds
Hot or mild chili medley -  6 ounces
Eggplant - 2.5 pounds

*numbers vary depending on the size of the vegetables,
 everyone gets about the same weights 


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The varieties in your salad mix, clockwise from bottom left: Red Russian Kale, Tokyo Bekana Mustard, Astro Arugula, Mizuna Mustard, Red Mustard, Tat soi.  Later, you might have a choice of some of these varieties alone, so this is your chance to try them all.
 

Next coming weeks... 

While things like the tomatoes have faded away, this weather has made room for the fall crops.  You'll get a tiny amount of salad greens this week just as a start.  Soon we'll also have kale and collards.  We expect to keep harvesting eggplant, sweet peppers, and okra until October.  And of course, you'll get garlic until the end!

As mentioned last week in the email we will be starting our sweet potato harvest in about a month and right now the field looks great!  In the meantime, we're giving out winter squash--you'll see us cycle through a number of different delicious varieties over the weeks to come.  
 

Reminders... 

Garlic for sale in bulk

Only $8 per pound for CSA members

(We'll be charging $12 per pound to non-CSA members once we know our CSA members have had their fill.)  

*Cash or check (made out to CBF), or purchase on-line HERE. This link is for CSA members only.

Note that streaks and spots of purple, black and brown are normal, natural colors to see on our garlic.  

Curious what the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is up to? 

There's a lot!  Here's just a few highlights:

  • We just sued the EPA for failing to hold Pennsylvania accountable.

  • Your farm just got a cameo in a snazzy video

  • The education program has begun live on-line classes for students that are incredibly engaging, in spite of being confined to your computer screen.

U-pick 

Continue to sign up for u-picking through the link here: U-PICK SIGN UP

The following are available for u-pick:

  • Okra (field B2)- This field is way out there, and you will need to walk a long way on foot to reach it. When you enter the farm you will keep right at the first fork to go towards the main office. You may park near the garage area and from here continue on foot up the road that leads behind the garage. As you are going up the hill you will be turning left once you see a covered firewood pile. The gate you come to is for the field B4, but B2 will be the small field connected to it in the far left corner. (Okra is an itchy plant. Please wear long sleeves and gloves, and bring pruners!)

  • Flowers - You can pick any flowers you see on the farm. There are still zinnias in field D in the middle. The sunflowers in field G2 have matured into seed, which you can feed your wild birds or save to plant next year.

  • Herbs - Everything on this list is behind the washing station. If you desire more Genovese Basil (the one traditionally used for pesto), it will be located down near the zinnias in field D (the big field you pass on your right as you're driving into the farm).

    • Basils (Genovese, Thai, Kapoor Tulsi, Aromatto, Round Midnight, Greek, Lemon)

    • Cutting celery

    • Garlic Chives (with edible flowers)

    • Lemon Balm (looking especially lush right now

    • Lemongrass

    • Lemon Verbena

    • Marjoram

    • Onion Chives

    • Oregano

    • Sage

    • Shiso

    • Sorrel

    • Spearmint

    • Sweet potato greens

    • Thyme