Wednesday, August 28, 2013
End of Summer CSA Boxes
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Since I have not had a chance to post for a couple weeks, I decided to write a bunch of short catch-up stories rather than one interminable post. Today is CSA day, so Cadence came down from the cities last night to harvest and pack the boxes this morning. I went out to take a few photos of this process, and caught a few turkeys relaxing on the bench. They are such fun characters, although I prefer they not sit on the lawn furniture.
Cadence pulled the last of the tatsoi.
She finally got to harvest the Golden Bantam sweet corn - sweet corn is really late around here this year.
Every squash blossom has its honeybee. (That's my new motto.)
Cadence picked 6.5 bushels of tomatoes this morning! (and that's after I picked a bushel last night.) We mostly grew Cherokee Purple, Gold Medal and Federle this year, and they have been huge, abundant and delicious.
Packing the boxes...
Stacking the boxes...
Today's boxes have sweet corn, tomatoes, tatsoi, cucumbers, and either broccoli, cabbage or one of these spectacular rosa bianca eggplants.
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2 comments:
I'm wishing I had a CSA to send all my produce off to... especially the CUCUMBERS! Or perhaps a couple of turkeys to gobble them up. Next year, I swear, I'm only planting ONE.
Luckily, I happen to know you have an ace pickle maker right there!! We thought we would have a mountain of cukes, , based on our 12-foot tall vines in the greenhouse smothered in blossoms and baby cukes, but some critter has devoured all but a few. This morning Frank invited me to harvest some of his bumper crop of cukes so I am going to try making my first-ever pickles momentarily.
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