It occurs to me that there are some nice opportunities for soup in the share today, especially if you have some good dry beans to toss in, and maybe a bit of stale bread. You might want to look for a recipe for ribollita, one of my favorite fall meals.
Today's share has a bit of kale, chard, carrot, celery and garlic in it. This is not at all what I planned for last fall when I was looking at what would go in the share today, but it's still a nice mix and it reflects everything that has happened in the season up to this point and my best judgement this morning about what I need to keep around for shares in the following weeks, and what would be best this week in the shares. At this point in the year most everything we have for the shares for the next two months or so is more or less ready. It's not just a matter of harvesting what is "ripe," it also has to do with guessing what will hold in the ground longer, what won't get eaten by voles or deer, what will survive impending frosts, and what would be a nice combination, giving a bit of variety from week to week
The chard and celery won't hold on much longer due to their sensitivity to freezing so I wanted to give those two out today. The kale is from a bed that hasn't been cleaned up in a while, and it seemed like some more greens would be nice in the share. The carrots have finally started to get a little size and the voles are starting to move in so I'm trying to thin them out, give a little more space and assess the damage. I don't plan for garlic in the fall shares, but this is leftover from what we saved for seed and I figured it should get eaten.
Next week is Thanksgiving so we'll take a week off from harvesting. I'm taking some of this afternoon, and likely many to come, starting to look at the plan for next season.
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