This week we've been busily prepping for the Artisan festival and
the benefit dinner next weekend. These activities include cleaning and hanging
all of the ornamental corn, shelling heirloom beans, harvesting corn stalks,
harvesting pumpkins and winter squash (it was an early crop and the groundhogs
were starting to take a serious interest).
Most of these items are hanging in the attic of the garden barn,
which is set up for drying crops. Despite being on the third floor it is
quite pleasant inside during the early part of the day. It is really
beautiful with all of the hanging plants!
I will be doing a demonstration for the festival on bean threshing
and winnowing. A farmer friend is trying to help me set up a bike powered
winnower for the event, however we may not have time in which case I will do it
the even more old fashioned way, by hand.
We have set up the farm stand nicely in front of the Box Lunch
stand with hanging lattice structures to display some our drying beans, corn
and herbs.
I've started harvesting fall root crops such as rutabaga, turnip,
carrots, onions, celeriac and soon diakon. Some of these I will put
directly into storage and save for later fall for the Co-op and the Shaker
Table. It will give me a chance to catch up in the field a bit if I'm not
packing and delivering quite so much for a few weeks and also help to extend
the season a bit.
Soon I'll be planting some late fall crops of spinach and arugula
in the hoop house. The day time temperatures are still a bit too hot, so
I'm waiting a bit longer than I might normally.
We have some beautiful red stem small turnips that you should look
for at the Co-op early next week. They are a beautiful magenta color.
My volunteers have really stepped up and helped out during the
last part of the busy harvest season, which has been very welcome!
Best,
Stacey
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