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Farm Happenings for October 10, 2018

Posted on October 4th, 2018 by Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht

It’s getting a little cooler (some days) which makes working hard outside, easier. We are trying to get all our root crops harvested over the next few weeks: sweet potatoes, potatoes, parsnips, etc.

Transplanting and seeding are officially finished for the year! The greenhouses are mostly empty and we are starting to turn over and plant into our “High Tunnels”, where we will use the power of the sun to keep daytime temps above freezing and produce some nice greens for the winter share.

We are excited at some positive changes to winter share, This year you will be able to customize your box. We are using a new software that allows you to select preferences at sign-up and then customize each pick up based on our harvest. This will help you actually use everything in the box because you’ll love everything you are getting! On a special diet and can’t eat potatoes? Not a problem, just switch them out for a different item you prefer. Want eggs some months but not others? Not a problem, just switch them out. We will also be offering a “greens-only” share (limited! This will sell out). Signups will likely start next week – stay tuned!

We hooked up the solar panels that are on top of our chicken coops, to provide electric for some lights we use in the coops to extend the day-length, so the chickens don’t realize (biologically) that winter is coming! As the days get shorter they lay less and less (what chick would want to be born at this time of year, headed into winter?).

But if we can supplement with a full spectrum light for a couple of hours before sunrise and a couple of hours after sunset, they will continue laying.

The swallows have left for the season, Monarch butterflies are migrating through and eating all our milkweed that grows on the edges of the farm (that's a Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillar in the photo, in the fennel patch), and we are pretty sure we saw a Bald Eagle the other day!