It’s a misty Thursday morning, we’ve had a little under 0.4 inches of rain, and the last of the oranges and reds are fading from the trees. There’s song sparrows in the wetland, and copious amounts of mud everywhere else. In case anyone was wondering, it is November indeed.
Lots of harvesting underway this week! In sad news: our celery crop has been losing this season to some disease issues. However, our celeriac is still faring well; while this root vegetable may not immediately be on your radar (unless you are renowned former Student Farm employee Wil Brown-Grimm, noted celeriac enthusiast), it is a wonderful addition to soups and stores for months under the right conditions. We had our final final pepper harvests of the season yesterday, thanks again, as always to the Small Farms Experience class, and with that we can call it close on the caterpillar tunnels for the winter.
Meanwhile, all eyes are on our napa cabbages in the next week and a half – its going to be a very close one as to whether or not they’ll have enough size for the last pick-up of the season. The limited sun means that even where we do have things protected in the high tunnels, they tend to grow quite slowly. On the other hand, our relatively warm temperatures in these last few weeks mean that some crops, in this case the Brussels sprouts, have decided to be tiny and bitter.