This past week’s share is looking decidedly fall-like, right on time. The share includes cabbage, broccoli (lots!), red head lettuce, parsley, carrots, radishes, bulb fennel, tomatoes, rutabaga, peppers and onions. The fennel is the only kindof wierd thing in the share this week. I have to admit to not having a lot of experience with [...]
A couple new things this week: Brussel sprouts and celeriac. Some of the sprouts have loose outer leaves that should be stripped before eating. The next batch should be tighter and more uniform in the cooler weather. The celeriac tastes a lot like celery (surprise!) and is great eaten raw like carrots or in a [...]
This week we will very likely be getting frost and they weather has cooled significantly. Perfect time to harvest the sweet potatoes which won’t do much growing once the temperatures are below 20 C and the potatoes themselves are damaged when the soil falls below 10 C. As expected, the harvest was well below its [...]
Week 15 share is being sorted out in the picture above with a bunch of helpers. This week included onions, garlic, carrots, chinese cabbage, a watermelon, tomatoes, peppers, kohlrabi and a fairly large bunch of broccoli. The chinese cabbage and kohlrabi are fairly new vegetables that you might not be used to. I don’t [...]
So in deciding not to go to the Carleton Place market yesterday, I find myself with a ridiculous amount of tomatoes and melons. The upside for the CSA families is that I’m trying to spread some of the abundance around. In the picture above you can see Lara’s minivan loaded with 4 shares. Each share [...]
I definitely have a surplus of tomatoes right now. It took me the better part of the afternoon to pick them all yesterday. I decided to try selling some of them at the road by our place. We get a decent amount of commuter traffic so we’ll see how this works out. [...]
