Summer CSA Pickup #9
August 9, 2026
Everything is exploding
August has arrived in Northern NH and we can barely keep up. Most of our days are spent harvesting, 600 cukes here, 350 pints of cherries tomatoes there. Not to mention zucchini, slicing tomatoes, basil and onions.
In between harvesting we spent some time tending to the carrots. Between the weeds and the deer they are taking a hit this year. We spend dozens of hours prepping the carrot beds to minimize weeds: multiple rounds of stale bed prep, flame weeding, basket weeding and now hand weeding. After all that we had to till in about 3000’ feet of carrots that were inundated with weeds and too far gone. Right the heels of that, our mature beds of carrots have been getting dug up by deer. The fun never ends. Hopefully we’ll have carrots back in the CSA rotation next week
The deer having a good time digging up the carrots.
Although we’ve been harvesting summer crops, fall planning and execution are in full swing. We changed over greenhouse 3 from cucumbers planted in April to fall pole beans and basil.
Ani has been an anchor all over the farm this summer. Switching duties as needed, working the stand, running the packing table, doing deliveries and helping out the CSA. Not to mention all the weeding and planting over the season. All with a great sense of humor and not a little bit of edge to keep us honest. Hard to believe, but this will be her last week this season as she heads off to college next weekend. She’s heading to Colorado-Boulder, go Buffs!
New to the CSA choices this week are green bell peppers, roma and slicing tomatoes and beans.
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.
Want some recipe ideas?
CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!
Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Franconia, Riley, Ridge, and Thatcher)