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Farm Happenings for October 8, 2019

Posted on October 4th, 2019 by Jodi Danyo

New this Week:  Tatsoi and a few CVO Watermelons (stragglers)!  Butternut squash from Clarion River Organics continues too!

This week, we highlight again Primrose Farm, one of our farm partners.  Owner, Mandy Fedinetz, aka "the chicken lady" is the one that raises all those wonderful chickens producing farm fresh eggs in your shares each week.  Mandy also produces value-added agricultural products like dilly beans and pickles, and we'll be adding them into the "Extras" this week for you to add to your deliveries.

This Past Week on Our Farm...

Fall is here!  Although, we did have a few very uncomfortable days at the farm this past week.  We were fortunate enough to have a small amount of rain, but nowhere near the quantity needed to finish the season strong. Most exciting happening during our field walks this week was the fall broccoli starting to form flower heads!  In just a short week or so, we'll be eating farm fresh broccoli again!

This week, we planted the last of the farm share head lettuce and some cut flower kales.  And, we cleaned out the greenhouse in preparation for some maintenance work over the winter.  Our focus continues to be on harvesting and ensuring that we have successful fall events.  We are also stocking our Farm Market & Cafe with all sorts of unique, fair trade products from SERRV International.  We have baskets, chocolates, fall holiday decorations, and house plants!  The holiday season is right around the corner!

If you haven't been out to our Farm Market & Cafe yet, we would love to have you stop by for a latte or Millie's ice cream!  We are very fortunate to be located at 1713 Main Street, Burgettstown, PA 15021, which is right along the Panhandle Trail in a replica of the original Burgettstown train station.  If you do stop by, please introduce yourself as a farm share member.  We always love meeting you all!

 

Thanks again for being a farm share member this season, and have a great week!

Jodi, Allie, Katie, Emily, and Annie

The CVO Growing Team