Two Feet in the Dirt

It really is starting to feel like fall this week, with nighttime temperatures starting to drop into the 40s. It’s always an exciting marker of the seasons changing when I can see my breath when I head out to harvest early in the morning! With the return of cooler weather, we’re also hoping to gradually have an increase in baby salad greens in the coming weeks. Lettuce and spinach seeds are both extremely picky about germinating and will only sprout when soil temperatures are cool enough. As a result, we don’t start planting fall spinach until September and, while we do grow baby lettuce for spring mix over the summer, it can have very spotty germination when the weather is unrelentingly hot, as it was for most of this past summer. So it’s exciting to be moving into the time of year when these market favorites are going to be increasing in quantity again. 

While we’re adding more and more cool weather crops to the harvest list every week, we also have the tail end of some summer crops, so make sure to enjoy these as well before the real cold weather sets in! This week’s harvest list is below. We’ll see you at the markets!

Farmers Katie & Mike

Harvest List:

• Lettuce salad mix
• Arugula
• Rainbow chard
• Potatoes
• Carrots
• Eggplant
• Okra
• Kale
• Collard greens
• Beets
• Kohlrabi
• Radishes
• Scallions
• Peppers
• Cabbage
• Lettuce
• Escarole