Week #15 Tuesday, Sept. 18th -Saturday, Sept. 22nd, 2007 Downloadable Word .doc for printing

In your bag
Yellow Onions, Garlic
Winter Squash - Sunshine
Cabbage, Potatoes
Peppers – Green Bell, Sweet Red, Anaheim,
Broccoli or Carrots
Roma Tomatoes
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme
(We had to do it at least once!)

This Week's Recipe
Roasted Potatoes
I’d love for you to send us some of your favorite ways to cook Spring Hill veggies so that I can share them with other members.

Next Week’s Bag
Next week we’ll have pie pumpkins, some variety of winter squash, maybe Delicata. We’ll also have carrots, roma tomatoes and leeks.

FALL WORK DAY Downloadable Word .doc for printing
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd 11:00am-4:00pm
Spring Hill’s Annual Fall Work Day is just around the corner. Join us for a day of garden work, good food, and fun. Weather permitting, we’ll dig potatoes, do some garden clean-up, harvest pumpkins, string chili peppers, press apples into cider, make vegetable soup over the fire and enjoy a fall day. There’s no need to RSVP, just show-up ready to help and enjoy the day. You should have received a flyer with details either by e-mail or snail mail (by Thursday) but if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call or e-mail.

Mark your calendars
for our Harvest Dinner. We’ll celebrate the season with a potluck dinner on Saturday evening, November 3rd at St. Frances Cabrini Church in Minneapolis.

Spring Hill Bags
Please take a look around your house and see if you have any extra Spring Hill bags hanging around. Return them to your pick-up site next time you pick-up a bag! We seem to be running a little short. Thanks!

Farm News
It has been a crazy, busy week around here.
It began with predicted frost last Tuesday night. We harvested the Sunshine and Butternut squash with Tuesday’s crew since it had little, if any, foliage protection. Then, after getting the vegetables prepared, bags packed and the delivery folks on their way (oh, and enjoying a wonderful lunch), Mike and I continued the “frost is coming” dance. We loaded the just picked winter squash on a trailer, picked the last of the melons, picked Saturday’s roma tomatoes (just in case covering didn’t work), closed up the hoophouses and drained the irrigation pump. Once the wind died down, around 9:00 or so, Mike and David went out and covered the cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and raspberries. We’re just not ready to say good-by yet! Those measures took us through Tuesday’s frost just fine, but with predictions of even lower temperatures on Friday night, we needed to continue dancing. On Wednesday we picked the Delicata and Carnival Squash and on Thursday we brought in the pie pumpkins. Normally all that picking is done on our Fall Work Day but leaving them would have meant losing them. We spent the day on Friday picking for Saturday’s harvest but also picking at least some tomatoes and peppers for next week’s delivery in case covering them wasn’t enough. That done we made a decision to double cover a few of the rows of tomatoes and peppers rather than single cover all of them. We felt that was our best chance of getting through the predicted freeze (note freeze and not frost).

The end result: we’re very thankful to have harvested the winter squash and pumpkins. It is a beautiful harvest and we’ll be sending them out the rest of the season. We’ve got two rows of romas that we can continue to pick and hopefully some red peppers as well. Eventually the nights will get even colder, but for now, it’s nice to have those tomatoes.

Next Week’s Harvesters
Tuesday, September 25th – Jim Oberly, Sandra Haff, Jane Mercier & Mark Taylor, NEED ONE!
Saturday, September 29th – Peggy Rader, Laura & Paul Morrill, Davin Lageroos, Laura Murphy & Ian Whitney, Ruskin Hunt & Jigna Desai, Friedman Family