Extended Season 2nd Harvest & our First Autumn Frost
Here is a photo of our post harvest routine today. Also we should note that over the past two nights we have experienced our first hard frosts of the fall season. These frosts killed off our basil, pepper plants, eggplant and the last of the tomatoes. Recognizing the coming frosts the growers harvested all our […]
Solar House Ground Breaking !!!
I am happy to post these pictures of last weeks Solar House ground breaking activities. Workers were installing the sediment control fence. They should be digging the foundation and installing the gravel driveway this week! We’ll post images weekly that will illustrate our progress. We are grateful to the University of Maryland 2005 Solar Decathlon […]
Extended Season 1st Harvest & garlic planting
Here the growers, with the help of “service learning” volunteersare planting the 2008 garlic crop The extended season begins, tomorrow, October 24th.Here’s what the harvest looks like: beets & their greensturnips & their greensradishestomatoespepperseggplanthot pepperssalad mixgarlicA winter squashokrabroccoli The PYO is open and there are PLENTY of flowers and herbs to harvest for your home!There […]
Week #18–The Last Hurrah!
Here’s a picture of us sorting tomatoes in OCTOBER! Crazy that we still have them, but we won’t deny that they’re still great. So on an endnote of the last harvest, here’s the list: Apples (from a neighbor’s yard-not pretty, but good for baking and eating too)GarlicEggplantGreen TomatoesRed TomatoesHeirloom TomatoesSweet PeppersHot PeppersA Winter SquashA Pumpkinbag […]
Week 17 News and Notes
We’ve begun the process of removing the oldest of our tomatoes in preparation of the incoming fall garlic planting. Reminder!! There are 2 weeks (including this week) left of our regular season CSA. The extended season starts October 24th. In celebration of another season, our 12th, passing we invite you to join us for a […]