Seeing red

photo: Sophie Shillue

As we're nearing the end of August, I'm happy to say our summer crops are still going strong! We've had some luck this year with some of the boogey-men of summer--plant diseases and hungry bugs can quickly ruin crops in bad years. This year however, so far, so good!

This week we're lucky to have CSA member Steve Folino and his fellow musicians of MGB Band playing at our Thursday CSA pickup! MGB plays eclectic  Americana--a mix of pop, country & acoustic jazz. They'll be on the back lawn of the Yellow House from 4-6pm for your listening (and dancing??) pleasure. See you there!

photo: Sophie Shillue

If you've been thinking that 5 lb of tomatoes each week isn't quite enough to supply your tomato sauce needs through the winter, you're in luck! We'll have a limited number of 20 lb boxes of ugly tomatoes (small, misshapen, scarred) so you can fill your pantry shelves with rows and rows of summer goodness. Email me at rodwyer@ttor.org to reserve a box at pickup.

In your share this week: MORE tomatoes! a melon, a hot pepper, green peppers, eggplant, cucumbers and squash, PYO cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, and flowers. We need any and all pint, half pint, quart containers back! We're running low and we still have a few weeks of Pick Your Crops, so if they've been kicking around your kitchen, bring them back and we'll put them to work!

A little advance notice on the next Farm Fresh Yoga at Weir River: Maureen will be teaching the next class on Tuesday, Sept. 8th at 5pm. Bring your mat and get ready for an awesome class--I'm already looking forward to it!

The sad news of the week is that farmer Sophie is headed to school and this is her last week on the

photo: Sophie Shillue; hand model: Casey Amster

farm. Sophie started here in April of 2014 and it feels like she's always been here--in fact, it's hard to imagine how the farm will feel without her. She knows the veggie operation here backwards and forwards and she's worked so hard week in and week out in the field, in the greenhouse, and in the share room. We'll miss her warm energy and snappy wit, her love of spicy arugula and pretty cloud-scapes, and her artists' eye for the curl of a cucumber tendril or the sheen on an eggplant. Good luck, Sophie, we'll miss you!

Cucumber tendril getting ready to unfurl and explore the world.
photo: Sophie Shillue