Meet this week’s vegetables:
Those of you who keep up on our blog will have seen some of our new land updates lately. To summarize for those of you who don’t: things are going well, and they’re getting bigger. We have a new tractor, a big one. We had the big field professionally spread with dolomite (similar to lime). We’ve built a small shed (not so big, I suppose). And we’ve begun working the land with the help of the farmer who’s continuing to rent a large portion of the property next year: this last week he sub-soiled and disked the field.
So it’s ready now for us to take over and begin prepping the ground for our fall plantings. As I’m typing, Casey and my mom are cracking garlic in preparation to plant later this week. We have five varieties, some of which are unnamed (which we’ve given our own descriptive names, such as ‘soft neck’). It’s very exciting.
We also have some beautiful wispy onion starts growing in the hot house to plant later this month, as well as fava beans. And we have two cover crop seeds we’ll sow onto the rest of the field: organically grown oats and small seed favas.
And there’s still millions and millions of things to do. This starting a farm thing (again) is a lot of work—much more than we had to do starting out at Seven Spoke with established infrastructure. It’s sometimes daunting but very fulfilling. In addition to building sheds, we’ve spent a good amount of time sitting at our picnic table and enjoying just being out at our new home and farm. We can’t wait to share it with you next summer!
Enjoy the vegetables!
Your farmers,
Katie & Casey Kulla
Oakhill Organics
P.S. A gentle reminder: After this week, we only have four more weeks of the Main Season CSA. Most folks are paid in full, but a few still have a payment left. Please make sure that you can get us the remainder of your payment before the end of the main season (October 31 is the last main season pick-up). Email if you’re uncertain about your payment status. Thank you!
