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Three hefty pickups
of storage crops &
late season greens
October, 2019
If someone had asked me, back in February, to predict the upcoming season, I never would have anticipated the journey that is now drawing to a close...
October 23, 2019
Late-October marks the return to watching overnight lows like a hawk. We had our first frost last weekend, but we were more or less prepared. Lisa, Michael, and I spent Friday morning harvesting greens and peppers for the Saturday pickup, and in the afternoon, we shifted the last of the sweet potatoes to the safety of “The Cube,” an insulated, unplugged walk-in that serves as our root cellar. At 7am Saturday morning, I drove out to the fields to check on the arugula and broccoli raab, tender greens I would have harvested the day before, had time allowed...
