End of Our CSA Season
Another season officially in the books! What an incredible year it was for us. It is interesting the read the final newsletter from every year we have been farming and everything that we learned from that season. The early years started out pretty rough! It feels like we have come a very long way.
Choice of Winter Squash
Long Pie Pumpkin
Brussel Sprouts
Rainbow Carrots
Potatoes
Crispleaf Lettuce
White Salad Turnips
Tomatillos
Shishito Peppers
Anaheim Chili Pepper
Mixed Onions
Garlic Bulb
Icicle Radishes
The biggest change this season was bringing a nearly full-time employee on the farm stepping into more of a manager position. Having Cindy to keep people working and allowing her to dig into some of our most difficult tasks without us has proven to be the key to venturing into new markets and increasing our gross sales while still maintaining some sanity. We expanded our spring greenhouse operation and offered transplants sales in the month of May. This turned out to be a good decision and we will be expanding transplant offerings next spring.
As far as the season’s successes and failures go, we still have problems with certain pests, varieties bolting in the heat, blight in tomatoes, low fertility in spots, and weeds, but these issues are definitely more manageable than years past. With all the work on our soil over the past six years, we are not surprised to see the health of the plants improved and production higher. We spent more time on succession planning this season and it showed in the consistency of products that we only had for a few weeks other years.
There are some new ideas floating around in our heads for next year to make growing better but we would love to hear your feedback on how to make your CSA shares better. Less or more? Specific crops desired or detested? Timing and amount offered? Packaging? Please help us better serve future members by taking the member survey.
As always, we are very appreciative of you allowing us to provide the food that you feed yourself and your family. It is an honor to be your farmer! We do not take this responsibility lightly. Please consider joining our farm share program again in 2022. We would love to have your return.
With gratitude,
