I for one am more than happy to see spinach season back!
Early Autumn is a favorite time of year and we can't seem to get enough of the cooler season crops like spinach, leeks, and brussel's sprouts!.
Every Fall, it takes some time to grasp once again just how much slower things grow as the daylight hours dwindle and temperatures get cooler.
The water hauling, weed-killing, grass mowing battle can be stepped down a bit now. Whew!
The water hauling, weed-killing, grass mowing battle can be stepped down a bit now. Whew!
This is a ALL SHARES week...FULL and HALF Vegetable and Fruit Shares!
Pick up is Thursday, September 19th.
4-7 pm at your respective site.
You Vegetable Harvest for this Week...
Spinach
Brussels Sprouts (removed from the stalk) (4 recipes)
Arugula
Green Savoy Cabbage
Sweet Peppers
French Fingerling Potatoes
Leeks
Broccoli
Daikon Radishes (Pickled or Kimchi or Salad)
Red Storage Onions (for On-Farm ONLY. Two weeks ago we mistakenly left these out of our On-Farm Shares...oops.)
Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...
Arava Melon (Grown here at TFO! Sweet, tropical green flesh)
D'Anjou Pears (Mick Klug Farm)
Mars Grapes (Mick Klug Farm)
Empire Apples (Mick Klug Farm)
Early Autumn look around the farm.
Our Allis Chalmers G cultivating tractor waking.
No it's not an alien ship landing at midnight to abduct an innocent farmer.
It's once again, the sun rising in the east to warm and feed our world!
The sun and Kyle.
L-O-W Clouds.
We gave in this year and grew a vegetable rarely eaten. You know, those round,
orange things you see so much of starting about this time every year...
Yep, those. We grew a bunch of those!
We had quite a few extra hands quickly working this Saturday
in the first of 2 or 3 mass potato harvests.
Come see us soon and look how beautifully
the flower bouquets
have changed
for the Fall!
the flower bouquets
have changed
for the Fall!
Go TFO Flower Team
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
