September 20, 2026
Summer & Fall Mix
by Farmer Derek

Harvest #20 (Week B) should include butternut winter squash, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, head lettuce, arugula, Swiss chard, Italian dandelion, kale, collards, garlic, onions, sweet/green peppers, hot peppers, leeks, and shishitos. Some items will be a choice.

U-pick should include flowers and labeled herbs (please bring scissors).

September 20, 2026
Workshifts this Week (9/21/26)
by Farmer Derek

This week's workshift schedule:

Bring gloves, water, a hat, sturdy shoes, and a pad for kneeling (if necessary for you).

We meet under the large red maple at the end of the barn by the pick up room.

Please be there by the scheduled start time (it might be hard to find us in the fields otherwise).

Workshift Guidelines - Workshift Sign Up Instructions

September 20, 2026
Heavy Lifting
by Farmer Derek

I'm appreciative of this gentle rainfall following a nice and dry week. Anticipating this rain event as well as the upcoming ones forecast for later this week, we wrapped up some significant tasks over the past few days.

The rest of the winter squash was retrieved and stacked in the hoop house to further cure under protection. I don't have exact harvest numbers, but it feels and looks like it's been a very good season for butternut and these should be in shares through the end of the season.

The final patch of potatoes was collected on Friday and this crop also appears to have enjoyed a good growing season. We planted a couple hundred more pounds this year so that may be why it feels like we're running out of space to store them. These should also be in shares forever.

We also transplanted the final round of outdoor crops on Thursday, marking an end to almost six months of weekly planting. With this concluding very soon we'll also be done with hoeing and cultivating. One more tunnel needs to be planted with lettuce mix, then we'll be all done planting for the year.

A fall cover crop mix of oats, annual ryegrass, and crimson clover was sown where potatoes, winter squash, and spring lettuce mix grew. Since the disk plow was hooked up to incorporate these seeds I also took the opportunity to continue preparing for the very large garlic planting that will take place at the end of October or early November. This year's garlic will be planted where strawberries grew for the past year and there's quite a lot of organic matter in there that needs to break down and mellow a bit before we're able to bed shape and plant.

Very soon we'll have to say goodbye to traditional summer crops like peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes. We'll probably go through pepps and egg one final time this week. Tomatoes should linger for a few more weeks though their weight should gradually go down. Green tomatoes will also be an option in the pick up room.

It's hard to believe it's almost October.

September 20, 2026
Calling for Bags!
by Farmer Dana

If anyone has grocery store bags saved up, please bring them to the farm. We can give them a second life in the Harvest Room with members who need them to collect their shares. You can put them in the bins under the first harvest table immediately to your left as you walk in the Harvest Room.

September 20, 2026
Potluck Saturday 9/26 5-7pm
by Gia Yaccarino

Join us for a potluck dinner under the pavilion to enjoy the evening and talk with fellow CSA members!

Bring a dish to serve six and your own beverages and place settings. (shared dishes do not have to incorporate farm produce)

Please label your dishes for those with dietary restrictions.

See you there!

The 4th and final potluck of the season is scheduled for Saturday, October 17th, 5-7 PM.

September 20, 2026
Wild for Salmon Buying Club
by Wild For Salmon

Wild For Salmon is owned and operated by Steve and Jenn Kurian of Bloomsburg, PA.

Editors Note:

Anchor Run CSA hosts two buying club events each year, in the spring and fall. When you order through the buying club you automatically save. Follow This Link to order. Your order will be delivered to Anchor Run on Tuesday September 29th and should be picked up 1-8pm. Orders are due by September 24th. Please note that we do not have any spare freezer space to store orders beyond this day.

We understand and appreciate that not everyone eats fish.

September 13, 2026
More Fall Veggies
by Linda Dansbury

Fall brings veggies we have not seen at the farm this year. Even though we look so forward to the summer veggies, it is nice to see a change in the pick up room. Here are a couple of notes.

Broccoli - is a very difficult crop to grow. The insects love it, too much water and it dies, too little water and it doesn't grow. So savor what we get! Broccoli is quite perishable so use it within a few days and check for little worms hidden in between the stems. Broccoli is equally yummy raw, steamed and roasted. Try a recipe on this site: Sauteed Leeks with Broccoli. Enjoy.

Leeks - this crop really speaks of fall for me. it should keep for a couple of weeks in plastic bags in the fridge. Leeks add a mild onion flavor to dishes. They can be cooked quickly as in thinly sliced and used as a topping on pizza, slow cooked as in Braised Salmon with Leeks or one dish I really like this time of year because it is a soup that incorporates tomatoes - BLT and P (Bacon, Leek, Tomato and Potato Soup).

September 13, 2026
Still Using Summer Crops
by Linda Dansbury

Cooking all the farm veggies can be a little daunting this time of the year - I love to cook and am very passionate about using local ingredients, but at this point, I am really wanting to cook more comforting, warming dishes, but this year, it is still warm and humid and the crops still lean toward summer. I did preserve some of the harvest - I will be very excited in January when I can reach into the freezer and pull a taste of summer out.

Eggplant, garlic - prepared and froze a large batch of Baba Ganoush.

Edamame - boiled, shelled and froze a few quarts of them. Boiled until a little undercooked - about 8 minutes. Shelled, placed on cookie sheet to freeze. Once frozen, placed in plastic bags. I will be able to use them in a lot of recipes throughout the year.I

September 13, 2026
Surging Tomatoes?
by Farmer Derek

Harvest #19 (Week A) should include edible/pie pumpkins and/or butternut winter squash, potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, eggplant, head lettuce, arugula, Swiss chard, Italian dandelion, kale, collards, basil, garlic, onions, sweet/green peppers, hot peppers, leeks, and shishitos. Some items will be a choice.

U-pick should include flowers and labeled herbs (please bring scissors).

September 13, 2026
Workshifts this Week (9/14/26)
by Farmer Derek

This week's workshift schedule:

Bring gloves, water, a hat, sturdy shoes, and a pad for kneeling (if necessary for you).

We meet under the large red maple at the end of the barn by the pick up room.

Please be there by the scheduled start time (it might be hard to find us in the fields otherwise).

Workshift Guidelines - Workshift Sign Up Instructions

September 13, 2026
See Ya Summer
by Farmer Derek

It does feel like the final week of summer with the fall equinox eight days away and our first taste of a drying cool north wind in quite a while. We received over an inch of rain late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, scheduled perfectly between two dry weeks.

Anticipating this rain event and because wet ground limited much of our activity the preceding week, we did as much work as we possibly could that involved interacting with soil. Raised beds needed to be reworked a couple of times thanks to germinating weeds and we were eventually able to transplant additional rounds of fall lettuces, greens, and roots. At least two weeks worth of recent transplants had to be cultivated/hoed before weeds got the upper hand there. Compost was spread, ground was loosened with the chisel plow, cover crop seeds were sown, and the disk plow/harrow was used to incorporate seed while diminishing/eliminating persistent grass and weeds.

Importantly we were also able to resume the potato harvest. With one more well-attended shift we should be able to wrap it up, perhaps this Friday.

This week we'll continue retrieving winter squash from the field as well as dismantle additional spent summer crops like cherry tomatoes, husk cherries, and tomatillos. Tunnels are also switching to fall production. We'll transplant the second round of lettuce mix as well as cilantro and dill for a probable November harvest.

September 13, 2026
Calling for Bags!
by Farmer Dana

If anyone has grocery store bags saved up, please bring them to the farm. We can give them a second life in the Harvest Room with members who need them to collect their shares. You can put them in the bins under the first harvest table immediately to your left as you walk in the Harvest Room.

September 6, 2026
Summer Meets Fall
by Linda Dansbury

This is the confusing time of year for me - we are still receiving summer veggies such as eggplants, tomatoes and peppers, but things like potatoes and pumpkins are also here. Now that it is finally cooling off somewhat, maybe we can start enjoying being outside again and eating our "fall" veggies.

Canteloupe, tomato, onion, basil, mint - made a delicious salad using the farm ingredients. Dressed it with a bit of lime juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. So good and refreshing.

Husk cherries, tomato, onion, peppers (sweet and hot), garlic, herbs - enjoyed the Ground Cherry Salsa from this site.

Potatoes, onions, parsley - made a batch of potato salad to enjoy this holiday weekend.

Lettuce, arugula, tomatoes, peppers - enjoyed large salads a couple of days.

September 6, 2026
Fading U-pick Crops
by Farmer Derek

Harvest #18 (Week B) should include edible/pie pumpkins, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, head lettuce, arugula, Swiss chard, Italian dandelion, kale, collards, basil, garlic, onions, sweet/green peppers, hot peppers, leeks, and shishitos. Some items will be a choice.

U-pick should include cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, husk cherries, flowers, and labeled herbs (please bring scissors).

September 6, 2026
Workshifts this Week (9/7/26)
by Farmer Derek

This week's workshift schedule:

Bring gloves, water, a hat, sturdy shoes, and a pad for kneeling (if necessary for you).

We meet under the large red maple at the end of the barn by the pick up room.

Please be there by the scheduled start time (it might be hard to find us in the fields otherwise).

Workshift Guidelines - Workshift Sign Up Instructions

September 6, 2026
Art Workshop - Nature Collage
by Lauren Vogt

September 6, 2026
Finally, A Dry Spell
by Farmer Derek

The prolonged period of wet and humid weather has finally ended and transitioned to some almost-perfect late-summer dry-and-crisp conditions. This change couldn't have come any sooner. Last week we had to suspend certain field activities like transplanting and cultivating due to saturated soil and anticipated it taking a good five days of sunshine and low humidity before our soil would be sufficiently dry. We're hopeful and eager to resume normal activities this coming week. For most of August the abundance of rain was well received and slurped up by the plants and soil due to a moisture deficit created over the preceding months and we were mostly able to stay on schedule. However as of a week or two ago the ground and most plants were full and the saturation point was achieved. Now we have to wait to see if the perpetually wet soil negatively impacted any crops or if the raised beds they're grown in provided enough protection.

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