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| A beautiful bean crop killed off by the weekend freeze. |
Last weekends’ record cold temps throughout the Northeast had
everyone here scrambling in their winter gear to pull crops from the fields
before the cold zapped the life out of things. Picking and washing produce in that
kind of weather is downright physically hard and even painful, but we just
couldn’t afford to lose the many beautiful crops that we knew wouldn’t survive
the snap. (Ironically, up until this weekend, we had not had a single frost.)
Unfortunately, there was not enough time to get everything
in. For instance, we lost the best bean crop we’ve had all season (see pic). It
was abundant and gorgeous.
As has been a running theme this CSA season, this week’s
share has managed to remain sizable but not quite with a wide change in
variety. We regret you have been seeing a lot of repeat items, as we wait for
many of the classic fall crops that can take some time (i.e. broccoli and
cauliflower) come to size. They were planted on time in the summer but suffered
from lack of rain in those first weeks. Even irrigation wasn’t quite enough.
Many farms we know say they are in the same boat.
We have a couple pounds of potatoes in the share this week.
Potatoes were one of many storage crops that took a real beating through this
summer’s excessive heat and drought. We estimate that we lost more than 90
percent of this crop. We’ve just had to accept that this is one staple our
members won’t be seeing beyond this week.
We intentionally paired the potatoes this week with leeks
and parsley so that anyone craving a warming bowl of potato-leek soup can do
so. Here at the farm, it’s definitely one of our favorites. Of course, we have
lots of ways we love to eat potatoes.
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