Harvest #20 (Week B) should include potatoes, butternut squash, tomatoes, lettuce, sweet peppers, onions, leeks, kale, swiss chard, arugula, mustard greens, eggplant, hot peppers, okra, shishito peppers, and cured garlic. Some items will be a choice. U-pick should include flowers and herbs.

Another best weather of the season moment is upon us, following some much needed and appreciated rainfall. Since Ida slammed the region, we've had 3 pretty dry weeks before Thursday's 2" of decent precipitation. The farm is definitely acquiring a fall look with much of the space now covered in an oat and buckwheat cover crop mix. Some summer crops still linger but will probably slow down immensely with the current and upcoming more pronounced cool weather. Fall crops are thriving in the cool, dry, and less humid conditions and we're trying to keep up with the bounty by harvesting storage roots like radishes, turnips, beets, and kohlrabi before they reach the size of a heavily inflated balloon. Besides organizing most of our plantings by crop family for future rotation purposes, we also try to organize around the time of year crops are planted and harvested, to minimize having to run around all over the farm managing different places and spaces. This time of year our footprint condenses and reduces to perhaps a quarter of the summer maximum and all of the harvested crops are coming from 3 of our 7 fields. It's a nice feeling.

We could use some help at workshifts again this week! If the weather's bad outside we'll process garlic inside. Please consider joining us soon!

Workshift policy reminder: If you signed up for a share with work discount your share cost is reduced by $15 per worked hour (8 for Full, 6 for Medium, 4 for Half). If you're unable to satisfy the work requirement for the discount please remit a check to cover the share cost.

This week's workshift schedule:

Please bring gloves, water, a hat, and sturdy shoes! We meet under the large red maple at the end of the barn by the pick up room.

Workshift Guidelines. Workshift Sign Up Instructions.

We're currently in Week #20 of 26 weeks of Main Season CSA. Sign up here to join us for the 6-week Late Fall CSA season that runs mid-November to end-December and begins immediately following the conclusion of the Main Season.

Wild For Salmon - Bloomsburg, PA based fisherfolk who venture to Alaska every summer to participate in the sustainable managed sockeye salmon run in Bristol Bay - are returning to Anchor Run Farm for a buying club drop off on October 7th. To participate and for more information, please follow this link.