Fall

Fall prep has permeated the to do lists from turning beds opver, pulling summer plants out of the ground, to planting cover crops, spinach, turnips, bok choy, kholrabi, and radishes. This week Tim planted over 7,000 row feet of spinch at the oxbow and Sam a smaller amount of spinach here at the main farm. Paper pot spinach is also coming up in the seedroom that will go in GH8 in the coming weeks once cucumbers are taken out. Want some more info on Paper Pot Planting? Check out this CSA newsletter from last fall (You will get to see a much younger Sam!) https://www.meadowstonenh.com/csa-fall-2024/fall-csa-week-6

Asoka

This week we had a first at the farm: Asoka, one of our cows gave birth to twins. The boy and girl are both doing great, can move pretty quickly even though they are only a few days old, and energetically nursing. Asoka, as she has been in the past with all her calves, has been very attentive and an excellent mom. Red Devon cattle only have twins 1% - 2% of the time; We are thrilled! Keep an eye out for their names in the next newsletter (we are still working on names). Red Devon cattle have a long American history, arriving with the Pilgrims in 1623 as one of the very first cattle breeds in New England. They are valued for their strength, rich milk, and flavorful beef, and as you can imagine they became essential to early farms—especially as oxen for clearing land and hauling timber.

Asoka with her two calves right after birth. Cows have a gestation period of 286 days versus a humans 280 days.

Asoka and Calves are doing great!

Cherry Tomatoes have continued with great abundance. Despite delivering 390 pints in a single week to the Littleton Coop for a sale, we continued to have them in the farmstand, sent some to the Purple Tomato in Lincoln and had some available for all of you at CSA Pickup.

The gray dodge (which has sides) is getting some repair work done, so we got creative with sides on our white truck. Thats the old bed from our now retired S10….Jav and Colin have been working together to complete food scraps with the bed being that much higher!

Cover crop in GH3 coming up nicely next to the pole beans

A short newsletter this week! More

Pickup

Come anytime between 3 pm and 6 pm to choose your share on the day you chose when you signed up, so either Monday or Thursday.

Please bring your own bags or box to gather your choices.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Coffee, Flowers, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

 Remember to contact us in advance if you will be unable to pick up on Thursday, 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!

School is back in session!

Woodland Community School, who shares the same address as us, is back in session. Please be careful of kids and parents as you enter and exit the farm for pickup!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Something we will ask you to take and then

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

We have run out of MSF Potatoes (we literally grew new potatoes just for you our CSA) and are now bringing in Sparrow Arc farm potatoes. They are local out of VT and are not organic. They limit spraying, and grow as naturally as they can.

Lyman View corn is also from off the farm. Dick has been as central part of the Littleton Farmers Market and phenomenal corn growing in the local area for 30 years. He is not organic.

Pounds of Basil ($15/lb) and flats of B-grade tomatoes and or Roma Tomatoes($30/15 lb flat) are available as supplies last. Let us know and we can have them ready for you to pickup on your CSA day. Email us to reserve yours!

Want some recipe ideas?

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, Cole, and Jess)