The Fall-Winter CSA Season is approaching!

It won't be long now! Soon we will be delivering CSA boxes once more, heavily laden with comfort food to fortify our bodies for cooler weather! All the good "stick to your ribs" kind of food, you know what I mean. Greens, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Cabbage, Turnips,those kind of foods!

Today we have been blessed with a glorius day, and I will take the time right now to thank our Creator for giving us this day. Cool crisp weather makes me think of the following things: mums, football & pumpkins, along with good things to eat such as, Roasted root veggies, Apples, Cider, Honey, Sorghum Molasses (one of my favorite things loaded with minerals), hot Biscuits, Homemade Vegetable soup,Candied Sweet potatoes, Butternut squash soup. I think I got carried away:)

Soon we will be knee deep in seed catalogs since it's time to be planning our Summer planting schedule. We have to think in advance a season around here, but that's not a bad thing I guess.Keeps us on our toes! The catalogs are always fun, because when you finally do get around to ordering your seeds, its generally cold weather, and it makes you think about springtime, one of the prettiest times of the year.

We lost our one full time helper at the farm (our only farm worker) a few weeks ago. Ty has been with us this summer, and he worked very hard and was extremely dependable. He helped us put up our largest hoop house, plant, weed, harvest, pack and load our delivery van. He planned on being here through December, but he accepted another job working for his Father, due to his Dad losing a valued employee at his business. So it goes, now it's back to just me and John again. It was hard to have Ty leave us, but we understand how things do change. We wish him well and thank him for his hard work.

Next summer we hope that our oldest Grandson John Lawrence will come help us on the farm. He has mentioned it to us a few times that he would like to do that as a way for him to earn money. He will be saving for college and other needs too I am sure. But we are proud that he wants to be here to work with us. We would enjoy his company and appreciate his help too. We will see how this goes. Farming is hard work anytime, but summer with the heat, humidity and pests, its much harder. But, what wonderful things the fields provide in the summer for us all-wow! Very worth it I think.

We ask your prayers for anyone that may be ill within our CSA community, and we ask yours for us as well, as we go forth into another farming season. We also ask you to pray for a friend of ours and fellow farmer, Mr. Hank Delvin, who we recently found out was badly injured in an car-truck crash. We wish for him a full recovery!

We have been working on a perennial garden up near our house this summer as time allows. It is coming along slowly. If you are thinning bulbs,such as Iris, daffodils, etc. and would be willing to share with me, I will share some seeds with you. I would like to include some bulbs in my garden and I want to add a few climbing roses too which I think would be a nice addition to the garden. So if you are cutting back roses, I would happily pot up those cuttings.

We are always looking for neighborhoods that would like to get enough folks together to have CSA boxes brought to them for an entire season, right in their own neighborhood, or delivered to their place of business or place of worship. If you or someone you know would be interested in helping us with this, just let us know.

Enough of my ramblings for today, thank you for following our farm's blog, and sign up to become a fan of Doe Run Farm on Facebook! Blessings, Judy

Summer's End

With Labor Day fast approaching, another summer will have come and gone! My but this summer passed by me so quickly-I find that more true with each year now. But, I treasure each and every day, and I thank our Creator often for the life he has given me. I am blessed with a wonderful family, rich with friends and very thankful to still have my 88 year old Mom! Though she has had more problems than usual recently, having been hospitalized twice in the last 4 months, she has kept a good attitude, and really tries to participate in her health care. I ask that you keep her in your prayers please.

I would like to thank everyone that helped us out with last Thursday's CSA delivery so that we could travel to Indiana to be with my Mom for a procedure that she had to have done asap. She was very weak, but she was so glad to see us. I spoke with her today and she is feeling stronger, and adjusting to her new medicines. Thank you Friends!

Another Summer CSA has just come to a close at our farm. It's always sad to say goodbye to the wonderful harvest that summer brings us, but we have the cool season vegetables that comfort us so much in the winter months, to look forward to enjoying. We are staying busy filling trays with seeds, that before you know it will be transplanted into the hoophouses. Some things have already been direct seeded into the soil, and they will feed us during the winter and early spring as they "overwinter".

We are getting registrations daily for our Autumn-Winter CSA, and soon we will be filled up. Everyone seems to be very interested in eating healthier this winter with all the H1N1 Virus information that is being publicized. I would ask all of our followers on the blog to please, do stay home if you are sick, and get to the doctor right away if you or anyone in your family, feels ill with flu symptoms. You can get help if you go early enough. ( I guess the RN in me is showing a bit)

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Until next time,

Peace,
Judy