Thursday, November 18, 2010

Glorious Fall



This has been a great fall weather wise. Last week we enjoyed working in 70 degree weather!
While our CSA is over and we've stopped going to market, there is still life in our fields. Here we have cauliflower and broccoli raab, two cool weather loving crops growing well.

We spent time harvesting the last few carrots in the field. It's quite a process. We have to water the carrots so that they pull out of the ground. We tried forking the carrots, but got tired of going to Sears with our broken forks to exchange for new ones.


Here we have our freshly dug carrots.


And here they are all washed and bagged, ready to sell
We grew a new variety for us, an heirloom called Red Cored Chantenay, and we love it! It grows well in our soil and has a great sweet flavor. We'll be growing it again for sure.