Week #12 Saturday, Sept 6th - Tuesday Sept 9th

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In your bag
Potatoes - red
Onions –cippolini & red tropea or superstar
Garlic
Cucumbers
Peppers - bell
Wax beans (Saturday) or Carrots (Tuesday)
Eggplant
Broccoli
Tomatoes (roma tomes & early girl & celebrity, maybe an heirloom)
Melon (cantaloupe or honey dew)
Herb Bunch

Coming Soon. 
We’re holding off on the beets but they’ll be coming.  We may have arugula next week and I think some more eggplant.  The zucchini is done for the season.  We’ve got plenty of peppers and we’ll keep the tomatoes coming as long as we can. 

Spring Hill Fall Work Day September 21st
Spring Hill’s Annual Fall Work Day is Sunday, September 21st, 11:00am-4:00pm this year.  Weather and vegetables permitting, we’ll dig potatoes, harvest squash, clean-up the hoop houses, make soup, press apples into cider and generally have a good time.  Bring some food to share, dishes to eat on, and your work gloves!
(We’ll eat at 3:00 so if you may want to bring some snacks.)  If you have thoughts about kids activities and want to help plan and carry them out, let me know.  We’ll also need volunteers to lead work projects, run the cider press, tend the fire and help with clean-up.  Let me know if you’re interested! 

Farm News
What a shift in the weather we’ve had this week.  We went from summer to fall in just one day it seems.  On Monday when I went to watch David’s marching band in the Ridgeland parade and it was hot!  On Tuesday, I don’t think I took my sweatshirt off all day.
The garden is changing as well.  Zucchini and summer squash, steady producers for quite some time, are done for the season. We’re making the switch from cherry tomatoes (good for light salads)  to roma tomatoes which are good for rich tomato sauces.  We’ve now seen the last of the beans as well.  We were pleased with the beans this year, good amounts and again, a nice steady flow.  The cooler summer has been good for that.  Some years you get a hot stretch and everything comes in at once.  This year, it’s been slow and steady.  That has been nice – not to mention the cooler working conditions.  We have one planting of spinach in the field which has germinated well and now has its first true leaves.  Yesterday, Mike spent the day preparing our middle hoop house (which began the season full of beans) for a second fall planting of spinach.  He raked the soil into raised beds, added compost and sustane fertilizer, tamped it down and planted 1300’ of spinach.  We’ve got our old wobbler sprinklers lined up in there so we can keep it watered and hopefully we’ll have some nice spinach for you in October!  One experiment we tried this year which did not work was planting our Jack-o-Lantern and some pie pumpkins into rolled down winter rye and vetch.  I suspect it was some combination of the vigorous vetch and the dry season that kept the pumpkins from ever competing well.  No Jack-o-Lanterns this year.  We are excited about some of our fall crops.  We’ve got some cauliflower coming along, and rutabagas and turnips!  Lots more veggies to come!

Next Week’s Harvesters
Saturday, September 13th  – Kathy Steinberger & Jim Young, Joelle & Carson Hoeft,
   Beth & Pete McAllister, Kim & Dale Lampe, Caron Moore
Tuesday, September 16th  -  Michelle Grabowski & Jose Hernandez, Amy & Troy Sinykin,
    Beth Leonidas, Mark Taylor & Jane Mercier, Kari Binning & Joshua Lang