We love fall! The sweet potatoes are almost ready to harvest. Remember last year, it was 4,400 pounds we harvested! Anyone want to guess what it will be this year? We will keep you posted! The greens are starting to thrive again in the cooler weather. Madison grew the baby greens mix this week. The farm children all help where ever needed, but sometimes they take a linking to a certain crop and want to handle it by themselves. So Madison is going to be doing the mesclun mix for the fall and winter. The winter squash is starting to come in and it sure is soup weather!
I love making kale and potato soup, and we also froze some of the corn and love to make potato corn chowder. Lately we have been eating a lot of eggplant in stir fries and roasted. It won’t be around much longer! We just sent lots of pigs to the butcher so we have some nice pork coming back. We really enjoy meatloaf with some ground beef and some pork sausage. I can’t wait for pumpkin bread, soup and cheese cake! We also took an extra beef to the butcher this month so we have bulk boxes for the winter you can order online. Stock up now!
Don’t forget this week is normally meat week, but it will be October 8th and 10th for meat pick up (veggie and milk pick up will be as scheduled for this week). We still have a few openings for winter CSA so send an email soon if you would like a spot. We will send invoices next week if you have signed up. The last week of Summer CSA is October 15th and 17th. Then Winter CSA begins October 28th and 31st.
We have been enjoying Baby Bethany and we thank you for sharing in our joy! Thanks for the prayers, kind words, gifts and friendship! We are waiting for two other “farm-ily” members babies to arrive and we enjoy watching the “farm’ily” grow! Little ones enjoying the farm are such a blessing to watch! We had a little bull calf born Sunday evening. We named him Asparagus! You can see him over the fence with the other little calves. Some of them are getting a little large and need to be weaned soon.
Blessings,
The Whole Baker Crew