CSA News

Please let us know if you will not be picking up your CSA box on delivery day of Thanksgiving week so that we won't pick and pack one for you. We will be delivering on Tuesday for those that pick up on Tuesday, and on Wednesday (Thanksgiving Eve) for those whose regular pick up day is Thursday. If someone else is picking up your box next week, we don't need notification, -- but be sure the folks picking up are aware of delivery day and the time next week so they don't forget.

Farm News:

Busily seeding trays again (30 yesterday)-- full of what will be transplanted later in the season into the hoophouses. It was a nice day for sowing seed, the greenhouse was warm, Public Radio was the entertainment again, so it went pretty fast with both of us sowing seeds. I try to leave the radio on as much as possible--I swear things grow better with it on:) John is not so sure about that.

We are being deluged with new seed catalogs right now. On the cold winter nights ahead we will be looking through the seed books, and dreaming of Spring and Summer. Everything is so colorful in those catalogs that in the middle of winter, it lifts your spirits to think about all those wonderful tomatoes, cucumbers, juicy berries and everything else we enjoy eating in the summer.

As I look out my kitchen window this morning, I see a few deer lifting up their heads to browse the low hanging branches (the ones with a few leaves left), out in the back pasture. The chickens are scratching nearby, giving no notice to the deer at all. In a few minutes, the chickens will be fed and watered, and then they will scratch some more and then retire to the hen house to lay for the day.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day today..gotta go for now - there's a strange dog on the porch trying to eat Big Boy and Baby's cat food...have to chase him away. See you pick up day!