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

In your bag
Garlic, Onions, Cabbage
Carrots, Broccoli, Cauliflower
Beans (Sat) Potatoes (Tues)
Winter squash Honey Bear
Peppers
Roma tomatoes
Herbs – Cilantro, Parsley

Coming Soon
Next week we’ll likely send leeks for the first time this year along with some potatoes for the potato-leek soup lovers. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep the Roma tomatoes coming for another week or two and we should have some broccoli and maybe cauliflower. We’ll send another variety of winter squash – maybe some of the beautiful “sunshine” squash.

I Love a Parade Celebration!
Sandy Haff, farm member and founder of “I Love A Parade,” invites you to their celebration:

I Love A Parade, a Minneapolis non-profit offering alternative work opportunities for chronically homeless persons, using the arts as an entry point leading to greater self-sufficiency, is celebrating its 10th birthday on Sunday, October 11, 2009 with a concert and fundraiser, featuring Michael Monroe.

I Love A Parade’s The 10th birthday celebration, fundraiser and concert will be held on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 2 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 2730 E. 31st St., Minneapolis, MN. In addition to the music of Michael Monroe, the event will include an art display, an “improvised parade”, fabulous door prizes and of course cake!

There is no admission charge for this event.

Farm News
We began the winter squash harvest this week. We started with a new variety for us, “Honey Bear.” Honey Bear is a sweet, tasty acorn squash. It is small in size and intended to be baked and served in the half-shell. We haven’t grown acorn squash for several years because we weren’t happy with the flavor. The “Honey Bear” just might change that. We baked one up the other night and were pleased.

After one row of the Honey Bear we meandered over to the neighboring squash patch and harvested more Honey Bear’s and then on to the bright orange, beautiful Sunshine squash that we’ve grown fond of the last couple of years. The prized Delicata squash and the Butternut squash both look like they could use just a little more time. Those we’ve left for another day.

We’ve been hearing rumors that the weather is about to shift, maybe a frost in the next week, and of course that has us strategizing. Peppers in the hoop house should be safe. The eggplant is done. Roma tomatoes, which we just started picking, will get a double cover. We’ll see if we can’t save them for a least a while. Depending on how cold the predictions are, we’ll either harvest the remaining squash or let it take a light frost. Everything else is frost hardy and some of the remaining vegetables will even sweeten up a little with some frost. It happens every year and it is always a little confuzzleing!

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 …

Next Week’s Harvesters
Saturday, September 26th - Hoeft’s, Lampes, McAllister, Segelbaum & Morrill families
Tuesday, September 29th - Jeannette Raymond & Pat Jones, Stacie & Jesse Warejoncas, Cathy Dolan, Jim Lovestar & Annette Smith, NEED ONE!