Sept 8

Ah. Here we are, firmly in September. Labor Day weekend is over, there has been a slight chill to the morning air, some leaves are even starting to change color.

Thoughts are shifting around here as well. Projects that will need to be started before the ground freezes are being planned (most notably a new greenhouse above the root cellar). Seeds for the winter cover crops are being purchased and seeding them is on the weekly to-do list. Pizza has shifted to Saturdays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. to better accommodate the back-to-school set. And the laying hens out in the field have their winter plans formalized. (For a variety of reasons, they will be going for a "visit" to a nearby Amish farm This is similar to a "field trip".)


Things already seem a little more relaxed for us, too. The produce we are harvesting for the CSA boxes isn't quite so fragile as the things we packed in those first weeks in June. Now we are able to harvest things when they are ready, and we have the time, and they can be held in the walk-in cooler until they are distributed to the members.  And, just the number of different items in a box is going down as well. At the peak, a CSA box had 15 different items in it,  and it weighed almost 30 lbs! This week, although I didn't weigh a box, there were only 11 items. (Still, quite a bounty, though, really.)

The weather (especially) feels good to me, and seeing things come full circle is amazing. Still a lot going on, but a new mindset.