Week #18 Saturday, Oct. 18th – Tuesday, Oct. 21st Downloadable Word .doc for printing

In your bag
Winter Squash – Sunshine
Potatoes
Onions
Garlic
Carrots
Turnips or Rutabagas
Cauliflower and/or Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Kale

Coming Soon
Next week is our final weekly delivery. In your bag there will be more Brussels sprouts, winter squash (butternut), celeriac (celery root) and a final round of carrots, potatoes, onions and garlic!

EVERY OTHER WEEK SHARES!
If you have an Every Other Week share and you are picking up your bag this week, please note:
YOU WILL RECEIVE A FINAL BAG NEXT WEEK ON
SAT, OCT. 25th or TUESDAY, OCT. 28th

Winter Share
Many of you signed-up for our winter share. We’ll be in touch in a couple of weeks with delivery details. This delivery of storage vegetables will be sent out a week or two before Thanksgiving. If you’re not sure if you signed-up for one, contact the farm.

Farm News
The garlic is planted. Last Saturday’s crew finished the task. It is a significant planting as it marks the beginning of the 2009 season!

It’s also a nice change of pace from the heavy harvesting that autumn brings. We’ve been plugging away at the harvest of fall vegetables. All will need to be harvested before the night temperatures dip too much lower. A little frost will sweeten the fall vegetables, a hard freeze will ruin them. Thankfully the weather has remained remarkably pleasant and the rutabagas are now harvested leaving just the beets, celeriac and carrots to finish up. Brussels sprouts and kale, two other fall veggies, are picked either the day of delivery or the day before depending on weather and helpers.
Shorter days and cooler temperatures have certainly brought a change of pace here at home. We’ve had a few fires in the wood stove and thoughts of cutting wood, knitting and good books to read are coming to the fore.

It won’t be long and we’ll be making plans for the 2009 season. Very soon you’ll receive a survey in your e-mail box if we have an e-mail address or in your postal box if we don’t. Please take a few minutes, fill it out and return it. We really do read them, try new things and make changes (or not) based on what we hear from you.

Harvest Dinner November 1st
Spring Hill’s Fall Dinner will be held Saturday, November 1st at St. Frances Cabrini Church , 1500 Franklin Aveue SE in Minneapolis. Dinner will be a potluck. (Patty and Mike will supply dessert.)
We’ll gather at 5:30 and eat at 6:00.
Join us!