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2011 CSA Newsletter – Weeks 14-16/17 – When will you stop giving me all this produce?
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The 2011 Harvest Season Ends Soon! I hope you have all enjoyed the abundance this summer. While we got off to a late start, most crops still produced an abundant supply for the CSA boxes. Here are the final pickup/delivery dates – Crested Butte – last delivery Sunday October 9th – this will be a more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 12-13 – Fall Crops
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On the Farm Fall has settled in to a beautiful September on the farm; many afternoons are drizzly or rainy, with a window of clear morning time to get out in the field and harvest. Last week I finished the mowing and switched the tractor to shovels. I finished hilling up the potatoes and worked more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 11 – Tomatoes!
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This week the tomatoes finally started to come in enough for everyone to get some. This is just the beginning of the tomatoes, and we expect to have tomatoes in increasing quantities for the next few weeks at least before the cooler weather and shorter days slow things down. This week we also picked our first, earliest more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 10 – Cauliflower/Here comes Fall!
2 Comments | Posted by Farmer Adam in 2011 CSA Season, CSA Box, Farm Updates
On the Farm Fall has settled in on the farm and a stead rhythm of harvesting has set in. Its week 10 and that means the long descent into the fall crops has begun. Over the next few weeks you will see a few new crops that we haven’t at all or much of… The more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 9 – The Apex!
0 Comments | Posted by Farmer Adam in 2011 CSA Season, CSA Box, Farm Updates
Lots and Lots of produce this week, I hope you can take it all it and do your best to cook and eat it. New this week is Sweet Corn, from the Olathe fields of Austin Family Farms – I think you will agree its delicious! We will have more corn over the next few more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 8 – New potatoes
0 Comments | Posted by Farmer Adam in 2011 CSA Season, CSA Box, Farm Updates
On The Farm The farm has really reached its stride; everything is looking vibrant, and the produce is coming in so fast we can hardly keep up with harvesting it all. This week we have several crew transitions going on. Maura, our intern who started working with us this spring, is heading back to her more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 7 – Summer hits its stride
0 Comments | Posted by Farmer Adam in 2011 CSA Season, CSA Box, Farm Updates
Updates this week This week lots of new crops are coming in from the field – we started picking tomatoes peppers and eggplants from the hoop house. There isn;t quite enough to go around, so some members will get peppers, some will get eggplant. Plenty more to come in the next few weeks. Lots of more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 6 – off to the river!
0 Comments | Posted by Farmer Adam in 2011 CSA Season, CSA Box, Farm Updates
From the Farm Just a quick note this week – I’m writing quickly because we are heading off to the Rio Chama for a family float, slipping away between harvests! The field looks just fantastic this year, its really exceptional. Come visit and take a walk thru the field any time! Lots more coming in more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 5 – here comes summer
0 Comments | Posted by Farmer Adam in 2011 CSA Season, CSA Box, Farm Updates
On the Farm Harvest has begun to take over all our time on the farm. This week we started picking the garlic in earnest (pictures below) – we will process and dry this (great!) crop and start putting it in your box in around 2 weeks. For now we have more green garlic. Lots more more »
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2011 CSA Newsletter, Week 4 – Extended Early Season Crops
0 Comments | Posted by Farmer Adam in 2011 CSA Season, CSA Box, Farm Updates
All of the rainy, overcast weather we have had over the past few weeks has kept the spring crops growing while we wait for the summer crops to hit.
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