Week #15 Sat, Sept. 19th – Tues, Sept. 22nd 2009 Downloadable Word .doc for printing

In your bag
Garlic, Onions,
Carrots, Turnips
Broccoli (Sat) Beans (Tues)
Cauliflower, Eggplant – last of the season
Peppers green bell, Anaheim, jalapeno
Tomatoes – mix of varieties
Herbs – Basil, cilantro
Melon– Canteloupe

This week's recipes
Roasted Curried Cauliflower
Fresh Salsa

Coming Soon
We’ll bring back potatoes next week along with a cabbage. We’ll also have the first Roma tomatoes of the season next week. Get those sauce recipes out! Next week the Saturday folks will likely get beans and the Tuesday pick-ups will probably have some broccoli. There may be more cauliflower and turnips as well.

Preserving Tomatoes/Salsa Fixins
When you signed up for your share, you may have ordered tomatoes for preserving and/or a box of salsa fixings. Unfortunately we are not able to fill those orders and will be refunding your money. The cool season has meant that the heat loving crops (tomatoes and peppers) have done okay but have not thrived. We apologize for any inconvenience. You may want to try the Farmers Markets for preserving tomatoes.

Mark Your Calendar
Spring Hill’s Annual Fall Work Day is Sunday, October 4th – noon-4:00pm.
Join us for potato digging, garlic popping, cider pressing and soup making!

Spring Hill Annual Harvest Dinner is Saturday, November 7th at St. Frances Cabrini Church in Minneapolis, 5:30-8:00pm. We’ll share a potluck dinner and celebrate the 2009 season.

Farm News
The big news around here is that the mural on our shed is now complete and it is beautiful. I can’t tell you how delightful it is to have this work of art on our shed. It makes me smile every time I come down our driveway. Randall Rogers did a lovely job and we are very grateful. You can see a picture of it on our web site.

What a beautiful week! It’s just the weather we need for ripening the winter squash. We are more hopeful as each sunny day passes and the nights continue frost free.
We’re beginning to see a fair of color in our valley. The sumac is bright red, the maples are bringing forth some orange, the poplars a little yellow and the greens are fading. Autumn is definitely moving in.

The work in the garden also changes. There’s lots of harvesting to do but not much cultivating. Garden clean-up begins. Mike has been very diligent about getting some nice stands of cover crop in as sections of garden complete their growing. The zucchini, cucumber and onion patches were just planted to winter rye. Soon the bean and melon patches will get the same treatment. The buckwheat, peas & oats and sorghum/sudan grass patches look quite lush.

I met with our Community Events Committee the other day to plan for our upcoming fall events – the Annual Fall Work Day on October 4th and the Harvest Dinner on November 7th. This group of folks meets about 4 times a year to plan the farm’s events. We’re considering a showing of the movie Fresh this winter along with a discussion – perhaps with other farms. We’d love to have a few more people on this committee – if you’re interested, please let me know!

Next Week’s Harvesters
Saturday, September 19th – Kathleen & Chris Morton, Martha & Greg Pomerantz,
Rosemarie Merrigan, Myrna Tautant & Peg Labore, Karin Goff & Reed McEwan, Anne Holzinger, Susan Illg & David Musielewicz
Tuesday, September 15th - Lisa Mills, Bob & Marian Wright, Ann Risch & George Boody, Carolyn Carr, Russ Heukendorf