Week 7: October 23 - October 26 We are well and truly frosted now - a solid frost last night and a harder freeze tonight will send the farm packing into its winter mode. We’re ready. Thanks to hard work from our tireless crew of farmers we got the last of the fall roots harvested and cleaned before the cold weather hit this week.  As we’ve been harvesting these fall roots - celeriac, turnips, rutabaga, watermelon radishes, purple daikon, beets, and endless carrots - we have b

Week 6: October 16 - October 19 Author John Green once wrote that he fell in love the way one falls asleep: slowly, and then all at once. For me, that’s how the transition from summer to fall happens. The days get a little bit shorter, the pace of planting slows a bit, and then boom! All of a sudden it’s fall. That’s how I feel this week. We turned down the temperature on our summer tomato storage space to make cooler space for the fall roots coming in from the fields. We’ve

Week 5: October 9 - October 12 We have a long list of tasks to get done before the winter sets in. October is the time to winterize...