October is here, and that means that the annual Harvest Dinner is coming up! Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 19th from 4 to 7pm. Bluegrass music, games and activities start at 4 and dinner starts at 5. This is a potluck dinner, so please bring a dish to share and help us reduce waste by bringing plates and utensils from home. We'll also be offering a door prize this year to one lucky attendee - a 5 1/2 quart French Oven pot from our friends at Le Creuset! Look for more details on the blog next week about this fun family event. If you would like to volunteer to help with set-up or with running a children's craft activity, please email Lise at lholdorf@ttor.org.
Appleton Cooks will be offering a Fresh Fall Cooking Class this Wednesday, October 9th from 5:15 to 7pm. These workshops focus specifically on what's growing at the farm. Participants take a walk through the fields, harvest some veggies and prepare a dish featuring farm ingredients. The cost is $35 for TTOR members and $45 for non-members. To sign up, please visit the Appleton Cooks website. Questions? Call the farm office at 978-356-5728.
Also, be sure to get in your Thanksgiving share order forms by the end of October. We have to place cranberry and pie orders by the first week of November, so we will not be accepting those orders after November 1st. We will have a total of 100 vegetable shares available, and these are first-come first-served, so get your form in early in order to guarantee you get a share!
The weather has been beautiful the past two weeks, but it was really nice to get a little rain on Friday! Not only does it help keep down all the dust in our roads, but it makes our newly seeded cover crops very happy. The crew hit a couple of milestones this past week as we finished harvesting both our sweet potatoes and shallots. These were the last of the fall storage crops left to harvest for curing in the greenhouse, so we're pretty pleased! On the agenda for the coming week (aside from harvesting for the CSA share) is cleaning off the rest of our onions, pulling out the rest of the landscape fabric, separating out garlic cloves for seed, and transplanting an experimental crop of over-wintered onions.
What's in the share: Lettuce, Greens, Spinach, Celery, Carrots, Beets, Broccoli, Savoy Cabbage, Hakurei Turnips, Eggplant, Peppers, Tomatoes, Garlic, Yellow Onions, Purple Potatoes, Acorn Squash, PYO Cherry Tomatoes, PYO Husk Cherries, PYO Hot Peppers, PYO Green Beans, PYO Corn Stalks, PYO Herbs.
New this week: Romanesco Cauliflower, Delicata Squash, Pie Pumpkins, Bok Choi, Easter Egg Radishes.
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| Romanesco cauliflower is a new variety of cauliflower for us this season! |
