Week #9 Saturday, 16th – Tuesday, Aug. 19th Downloadable Word .doc for printing

In your bag
Swiss Chard
Onions – superstar, red tropea
Carrots, Fennel
Peppers – bell & jalapeno
Cucumbers
Zucchini & Summer squash
Filet Beans
Broccoli or Eggplant
Potatoes – Purple Viking
Tomatoes (sungold cherry, early girl & celebrity and a couple of heirlooms)
Cilantro & Parsley

Coming Soon
I’m guessing melons next week, maybe some lettuce and probably broccoli and eggplant.

Farm News
We got a little bit of rain this past week – not nearly enough to stop irrigating – just enough to settle a little dust. The real (and scary) news of the week is that last Sunday, August 10th, Mike and I went out to harvest zucchini and there was FROST on the ground – in August. YIKES!

We planted some fall spinach, turnips and arugula this week. We’re working on increasing the variety in the fall bags. We’ll need to hold off on the frost though ….

Second Payments Due
Many of you chose to divide your pledge into two payments. The second payment is now due. If you are unsure if you owe or how much, please let me know.

Tuesday Help Needed
We need harvest/delivery help for Tuesday, August 26th and each Tuesday for the rest of the season. If you can help, please call Michele Gersich at 612-378-0380 or e-mail her. Thanks!

A Tribute to Nuala Kernan
A very dear friend, ardent farm supporter, and person extraordinaire, Nuala Kernan, died this past Wednesday, August 13th. For the past three years Nuala fought the ovarian cancer that eventually took her life. She fought with bravery, humor, some tears and loads of grace.

Our families met 22 years ago when Katie was a baby and their daughter Caoilfhionn was a year old. We became fast friends. When we moved from the city to the farm, they helped with the move and when we proposed starting a community supported farm Nuala and John and Caoilfhionn were right there with us. Nuala served on our core group for many years, worked on the newsletter we put out in the early days, hosted a pick-up site and coordinated harvest days. When friends and family visited from Ireland, she would often bring them out here for a visit and so we had the good fortune of meeting her sisters and brother and had a couple of good visits with her charming father. When she went back to Ireland, she always brought maple syrup from the farm, a treat her father liked on his oatmeal.

Nuala was all about community. It was the piece of the farm that she felt so strongly about. For Nuala, in fact, the vegetables were just a side-line. While she was an active committee member and site host, for many years she chose to get a bag of vegetables just once a month!

She was one of the firm voices in the creation of our member-based delivery system, a system she believed would help foster the connections she felt were so important.
Wherever Nuala went (and this is true right up to the end) she reached out, met new people, took them under her wing and brought them into her large circle of friends. She will be sorely missed.

Next Week’s Harvesters
Saturday, August 23 - Jacki Betsworth & George Hunt, Angela & Brian Gustafson,
Julie & Mike Drysdale, Kate Kysar & Scotto Velders, Tom & Darlene White
Tuesday, August 26 – Ann Kragenbring & Phil Bode, Meredith & Dick Poppele,
Brenda Beyer & Barry Schade, Hermann Weinlick