Working outside on a autumn morning.
We often feel lucky to be able to call this our office within the season.
The work is very hard and the hours are very long but the satisfaction we get from growing
food and flowers is very...well, satisfying.
This is a FULL SHARES ONLY week...Full Vegetable and Fruit Shares!
That means only those with Fruit and FULL Vegetable shares will pick up.
Pick up is Thursday, October 10th. 4-7 pm at your respective site.
Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...
- Orange Carrots with Tops (Don't be afraid of any oddball carrots that you may receive such as the one Peter is holding. They taste great and look funny! What more could you want?!)
- Savoy Cabbage
- Purple Top Turnips
- Sweet Peppers (Yes these are still hanging on and are super fantastic roasted/charred for tonight or frozen for a cold night in January.)
- Baby Arugula
- Purple Kohlrabi
- Cauliflower
- Frisee (A slightly bitter green from the chicory family)
- Buttercup Winter Squash (The flavor and texture are quite a bit like sweet potatoes.)
- Lettuce Heads (1 large green romaine and 1 mini red romaine.)
Your (last of the season) Fruit Harvest for this Week...
- Concord Grapes (eat them immediately or juice them for their distinct, explosive flavor!) (Mick Klug Farm)
- Asian Pears (Local farmer, Gail Cox from Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin brings us these unsprayed, crisp and sweet fruits.)
- Ida Red Apples (Mick Klug Farm)
- Honeycrisp Apples (Mick Klug Farm)
**Yes, it's true. This is the last week of the fruit share.
The good news is that we have fruit for sale at the farm stand for the next few Thursdays and Saturdays.
Your (last of the season) Fruit Harvest for this Week...
**Yes, it's true. This is the last week of the fruit share.
The good news is that we have fruit for sale at the farm stand for the next few Thursdays and Saturdays.
Joe O'Meara has been with us for four years now and has been instrumental in establishing our apple orchard. The eventual goal is to have only our apples for sale on the farm. For now though, there are quite a few varieties for sale at the farm stand grown here at TFO and overseen by Joe.
Varieties available now:
Courtland
Empire
Red Rubinstar
Cox's Orange Pippin
Gold Rush
Liberty
Scarlet O'Hara
Enterprise
and many more as the years go on.
The trees are beginning to bare all.
Eddie claims the last pumpkin in the field.
There are plenty more at the farm stand for everybody!
You can't have this one though.
We are busy planting cover crops such as winter rye, hairy vetch and oats.
Also, hard, red winter wheat for harvest in early summer. We will use that wheat
Eddie claims the last pumpkin in the field.
There are plenty more at the farm stand for everybody!
You can't have this one though.
We are busy planting cover crops such as winter rye, hairy vetch and oats.
Also, hard, red winter wheat for harvest in early summer. We will use that wheat
for milling into bread flour and the stalks for straw bedding for our livestock.
Hey! Great News!
They finally reduced the speed limit on our little Milburn Road.
Come on everybody, slow down and enjoy the scenery.
Please stop by and see us to purchase farm grown products...
Hey! Great News!
They finally reduced the speed limit on our little Milburn Road.
Come on everybody, slow down and enjoy the scenery.
Please stop by and see us to purchase farm grown products...
*Every Thursday 4 - 7 pm on the farm
*Every Saturday 8 am - 2 pm on the farm
*Every first and third Sunday of the month
May 5 through October 20, 2013 9 am - 3 pm at Chicago Botanic Garden
Eat Well, Eat Local and Thank You!
Chris and Tania Cubberly, Larry, Joe, Michelle, Tomas,
Eat Well, Eat Local and Thank You!
