Here's the first share for October. We've included more thinnings from the chard, pirat butter lettuce, a few peppers, some of the remaining tomatoes and summer squash or cucumbers, and the last of the basil. As the weather cools, the days get shorter, and the ground gets wetter, we're finishing up some of the summer crops, pulling them out and putting in cover crops. Today we seeded some trials of wheat, hull-less oats, and naked barley as cover crop for the winter. The melon beds got pulled and the remaining melons will be served on Sunday along with farm tours.
This is peak pepper season and we have three varieties we're distributing, all sweet red peppers. The Jimmy Nardello variety has been featured on a few blogs lately such as the
Slow Food Portland blog and
Slow Food USA blog. We're also growing
Joelene's and Gypsy peppers. All three get sweeter and deeper red with a few days on a counter top, not in the fridge. As long as the weather holds we'll have these for a few more weeks. Enjoy!
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