End of the Summer CSA

Last Friday was the 10th and final week for the summer CSA.  We were able to give out several new crops at the very end which made thing exciting. We were able to give out potatoes, cabbage and eggplant. Now that the CSA is over we are planning on seeding new things and preparing the garden for our next event which is Gazpacho in the Garden. Gazpacho in the Garden will be September 7th from 5:30-8:00 pm. We welcome everyone to come join us for an evening of local food, live music and fun! You can RSVP here: https://mkggazpacho.splashthat.com/During the weeks we had our bee classes we learned that the bees really liked flowering plants such as buckwheat, which we sometimes use as a cover crop. So after that we planted two rows of it and recently we have been seeing a lot of honey bees on them, hopefully some of which are our own bees. You can see some of the buckwheat we planted in the picture above, it is the plant with white flowers right behind the row that is covered. One thing that is fairly new at the farm is our new wash and pack area. Thanks to Andy and RE we have a new area we can use for wash and pack instead of the food lab, which is under construction now. The new wash and pack which is shown in the image below makes washing both containers and veggies easier because before we had to walk back and forth up the hill to the food lab. Now we can stay closer to the garden, which makes things run more efficiently. Still more work needs to be done to the wash and pack area but we have a great start so far!