Garlic Time
Back in October 2025 we all took some time altogether to pop garlic to prepare for planting this years crop. After curing and drying our garlic harvest, we select the bulbs of garlic we would like to save for planting and sell the remaining garlic. We break up the bulbs into cloves and rather than enjoy it in the evenings dinner, we plant each clove typically at the Oxbow. After planting, covering with row cover or mulch, we cross our fingers and wait until the spring. Often garlic is one of the first crops to wake up and start growing come spring time. We have spent the season weeding and maintaining the garlic and this past week harvested, bringing in hundreds and hundreds of bulbs of garlic, which is now curing on tables under our pole barn in the back of the farm.
At 6 inch spacing, 3 rows per bed, over 13,000 heads of garlic were planted on October 24, 2025, yielding a hefty, high quality, harvest which was started last Thursday and finished up on Tuesday. The 3 rows allows us to use the basket weeder to cultivate between the rows. we hand weeded the rows of garlic twice before harvest.
Curing or drying the garlic (onions and winter squash also need curing) enables us to store the garlic so that it will keep into the spring.
Basil
We are going into this time of the season with more young basil plants than ever before in the hopes that we will continue to have basil into October. We interplanted among the GH4 cherry tomatoes, knowing that if the cherry tomato plants are removed carefully the basil will occupy this greenhouse alone as we move into the fall. The pints of cherry tomatoes continue to come out of GH4, however even Jav needs a ladder to harvest out of here now.
If you would like any bulk basil, we are selling it in 1 pound increments at $20/pound. Let us know by email if you would like some and we can have it waiting for you when you come and pickup your CSA share….just give us a 24 hour heads up at least.
Pickup
Come anytime between 3 pm and 6 pm to choose your share on your pickup day.
As always, please bring your own bags or box to gather your choices.
Remember to contact us in advance if you will be unable to pick up on your day, so that we can store your share in our walk-in refrigerator to keep it fresh. You can email or call us to let us know. Thank you to all of those who have already arranged another time to pickup!
Here's what you will find in this weeks share:
Everyone gets to take something we will choose.
Full shares receive an additional 11 choices
Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.
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Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Franconia, Riley, Ridge, and Thatcher)