Challenges

During the past year of challenges, several of you have asked me if there’s anything you can do to help. Sometimes this happened in the context of the current economic environment, and sometimes in the context of the impact of the cool summer weather. So I’ve been thinking about that, and this is my answer.

We need to sell out our Winter and Deep Winter Vegetable CSA Shares.

We’ve invested a tremendous amount of energy and a not inconsiderate amount of money in setting the stage for these crops: costs for seed, fuel, labor, and the tractor tire we popped when we were finishing beds for the winter radishes. It looks like we are going to have a great harvest of carrots, beets, winter radishes, turnips, and rutabagas; we’ve got a nice crop of potatoes up on the ridge; the squash down at the rental ground seems to be making the most of this very late fall. We are also looking forward to having nice crops of spinach, baby lettuce, and other greens in our greenhouses.

So, please sign up, and sign up soon. It would be wonderful for my peace of mind, and it would be better to focus our energy on activities other than selling winter shares for the important month of October.

We’ve enclosed a sign-up form in this week’s CSA box, or you can get one off of the internet at http://www.rsfarm.com/CSA/SignUp.html