Your 2026 vegetable farmers! (Not pictured but equally important: Alex on livestock and Willy in the tree nursery!)

This Week’s Share:

Sweet Potatoes
Kale or Collards or Chard
Hakurei Turnips or Broccoli
Carrots or Beets
Root Medley
Cabbage
Fennel
Garlic

LAST Pick-Up of the Year

Final pick-ups this week, get your last share or double share if needed! Thank you to the 10 people who filled out the end of year survey already. The other 200+ of you: please take a quick minute to write us a note and tell us what you loved or hated! We will comb through these responses in our end of season planning and take them into consideration for changes to next year’s crop plan and share logistics.

End of season survey

What’s on U-Pick?

In field G: large marigolds, dill, some cilantro, and lots of parsley continue!

In the raised brick beds, also known as the Cleeland Garden:

Marigolds, Mint, Parsley, Cilantro, Sorrel
Sage and Lemon Balm (to allow for healthy growback for these plants, pick the largest leaves from the outside, do not cut from the stem of the plant!)

We have a limited restock on beef! The incredible chuck roast is back and works really well for a crock pot meal. T-bones, porterhouses, ribsteaks, and sirloin tip steaks are all back in stock too, so load up before the main season ends!

Farm Store

Final Notes from the Field:

Well here we are folks, the final CSA pick-up of 2026! In some ways it has flown by, as the pace of farmwork keeps us perpetually hustling and thinking 3 months in advance. All in all, we have had a truly stellar season. Mountains of gorgeous produce were pulled from the field week after week and the weather did always not squash our plans. Early in the season, if you can remember back to May, we had a lot of wild temperature swings up and back down, which contribute to early bolting and pest/disease issues. Despite that, we had big successes this year, so let’s recap a few!

Early season cucumbers, grean beans, and squash. They came early, took a break, came back, and were delicious and varied all the while. Heirloom striped zucchini was a fun one, and we are happy with cutting 8-ball zucchini off the list.
ABUNDANT tomatoes. We had tomatoes in every share for 14 straight weeks, almost 2/3 of our viable outdoor growing season, with many weeks producing 5 pounds of tomatoes per person! This is what we dream of.
Broccoli, kale, and winter squash have all been really strong this fall!
U-pick herbs and flowers had an awesome succession line: give it up for Kayla and Elizabeth seeding row after row of sunflowers and zinnias, and bed after bed of basil, dill, cilantro, parsley, marigolds, and more. (We promise not to grow those 12-feet tall sunflowers ever again, those were useless.)

Areas we already have plans to improve on next year:

Perfecting the living pathways in spring brassicas, tweaking our cabbage/broccoli quantities, improved weed control and soil prep for carrots, narrowing down our varieties of sweet potatoes to those that produce most abundantly, and investing in perennial herbs like rosemary and sage that will feed us all for years to come.

Phew. Thank you all again for being members of this scrappy and industrious farm community. Soil health is our lodestone, quality vegetables are the vehicle, and a sense of community backing is what keeps us driving. We hope you eat another delicious meal from this final share, and if you aren’t joining for the winter CSA, we look forward to growing your crops for you again in May of 2027!