A Fall Update from our Farm Manager: Seasonal change is underway!
Our Farm Manager Maria Williford provides a few updates and tips:
Fall crops are underway and doing well! We’re welcoming beets, cabbages, carrots, collards, kale, lettuces, radish, spinach, Swiss chard and turnips.
We’re saying goodbye to the last of our summer crops: the final squash harvest will take place soon before mid November’s first frost and sweet potatoes will be harvested this week!
The planting in our Greenhouse and High Tunnel planting are complete and allow us to do the majority of winter growing under cover and in more controlled conditions.
After this week’s Pay-What-You-Can Farmstand, all of our produce will be donated to our Farmshare partners.
Gentle reminder to #leaveyourleaves! Some species of butterflies and mulch lay their eggs on fallen leaves and sticks. Allow fallen leaves to act as a mulch in the rest of your garden.
Prune and mulch with discretion or put off pruning until early spring. Exposed seed heads, spent foliage and flower stalks can provide much needed food and shelter for our beneficial insects over the winter. Mulching can also prevent bees and other native insects from burrowing into the ground before winter. If you must mulch, do so as close to the base of your plants as possible.
