Hi Everyone!

You should all have received my general email list email on Friday, so I'm going to call that my blog for this week since I spent my extra time this morning organizing CSA pick up swtiches, following up with the NRCS to try and get an agent out to the farm before the end of the season (National Resource Conservation Services - agents can help create farm management plans that protect soil/air/water/habitat and provide access to grant funding to make those things happen) and I ordered predatory nematodes in a pre-emptive attempt to control cabbage root maggot on our fall brassicas. You need to apply Nematodes when the soil is moist, and with the rain coming up, and this being about the time that the moths lay their eggs, I'm pretty confident it's the right time to apply . . . and they happened to be on sale . . . so maybe I'm a little late? I hope not!

We grew this variety of green cherry tomato hoping it would add color to our cherry tomato mix . . . well, I guess I should have read the description more carefully . . . they are "crunchy" tomatoes. At first we were all like, weird! But then we skewered them and grilled them, like it says to do on the seed company website and they are actually really good! So if you are looking for a little tomato great for grilling or sautéing that will hold it's structure, we hope you will give this one a try this week!

The name is "GREEN BEE".

These hot peppers are called sugar rush peach. They are fairly mild and most of their heat is in the seeds and pith (that white part inside that the seeds are attached to). I'm not into very much heat but I put a whole one into a salsa I made last night and I thought it was great.

Also in the hot pepper mixed pack this week we have green and red serano and cayenne chiles.

Beautiful sunrise on Saturday morning before market.

Harvey doesn't have school this week (and was supposed to stay with his grandmother but decided he didn't want to!) so he came to work yesterday morning! The flowers are a bouquet I made for my mother-in-law. The last picture is Jess and Morgan picking those delicious sweet peppers that have been in your shares these past few weeks. Jess found one that was so perfect she had to hold it up for all of us to see. I was in the heirloom tomatoes when I snapped this pic.

2 pounds tomatoes: not quite so many, but still amazing. Lots of heirlooms this week!

Choose 3 (no repeats on bunches/heads): kale, chard, arugula, micros, peas tendrils, head lettuce, bunch of onions, radishes, beets, one pound: eggplant/green peppers/onion/cucumber (mix and match)

1 pint: cherry tomatoes, shishito peppers, hot peppers, mini sweet peppers

Sweet Peppers: two peppers

Choose 1: 6 ears sweet corn (these ears are what I was talking about the first time - far from perfect, but still delicious - we ate some on Sunday and my mother in law loved them) OR 1 quart mini-sweet peppers

Choose 1 bunch: cilantro, scallions, basil

If you can't make it, please feel free to send someone else to pick up your share, or reach out to us and we can coordinate an alternate pick up plan.

CSA Pick Up Hours:

34 Rogers Rd, Holliston

Tuesday, 1pm-6pm

93 East Main St (but don't use the main entrance. At the light in front of the Nursery, turn uphill on Legacy Farm road and make your first right. It's a back entrance and you'll see the box truck!)

Thursday, 12pm-5pm

65 Brookline St, Pepperell (but really it's more like 60 Brookline st, just east of where the GPS will take you. There's a big sign and a parking lot.)

Thursday 4pm-7pm

Remember to change the water for your flowers daily, if possible, trim the stems after 3-4 days. Keep the bouquet out of the sun and in a cooler part of the house for longer vase life.