We can’t believe the CSA will be coming to close for this year… next week!  Yes, we are sad to say that the last CSA pick-up for 2009 will be next Wednesday, September 30th.  The members I talked with at yesterday’s pick-up also seem sad to know it is coming to an end.

While the CSA may be coming to close, we still plan to have our farm stand going every Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and we invite you all to stop buy and continue to show your support for our little farm.  Apart from our farm fresh produce, you just might catch Jenny selling her fine home-made medicinal herbs, tinctures, and body care products. Marianne plans to be there with her delicious raspberries (while they last), and the other cool arty & crafty stuff she has.  And if I can pull it together, I may be selling some of my fine art photo too!

We are even talking about having a Harvest Market one Saturday in October, so stay tuned for more info on that.

A huge thank you to all of our CSA members who helped make this farm possible, and all of the folks who helped in the garden!  We hope to see you all again next year!

-”Farmer” Jim

It was snowing at my cabin in Eldora, and the weather down on the farm in Lafayette was looking pretty chilly.  The weather called for a low of 34 Tuesday, so I headed back down the hill to help Tracy, Carlos, and Jillian harvest tomatoes, basil, and some other items just in case the weather decided to take a bite out of our warm weather crops.  Carlos & I tried to cover the sensitive crops with row cover, but some of the remaining row cover was pretty worn out after being used all season.  We did get the peppers, eggplant, and some tomato rows covered.  Tracy & Jillian harvested a lot of basil since the cold weather was already trashing some plants.  It looks like they saved a lot, and we’ll definitely have fresh basil for Wednesday’s CSA pick-up.  We also plan to dry a bunch and if we have enough we can offer bags of dried basil also.

Hard to believe we are quickly approaching October!  Hard to believe that, soon, we will no longer have all the fresh, extremely local, produce that we’ve been spoiled with for the past four to five months.  Maybe we need to offer a Fresh Produce Rehab course!

We are considering changing our farm stand to be self-service and open at least 5 days a week.  Our current hours, 4:30 to 6:30 pm on Thursdays is a limited time for most, and we appreciate those of you who do stop by during those hours.  Since our farm is so small, and we can’t afford to pay someone to sit at the farm stand every day, we feel the self-serve stand will be a great way to reach more of you who would like to support our small farm and buy produce from us.

Stayed tuned for more on this topic!

This summer Tristen (seen in this photo), and his brothers Gabriel, and Nicholas were out visiting their grandmother, Ginger, and helped us out in the garden and farm stand, in between enjoying their stay on the farm.

For 2010 we will be looking for one farm intern to help us throughout the season.  We’ll post more info about that position a little later this year.