Late Fall Harvest #5 (Week A) should include sweet potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beets, daikon/specialty radishes, kohlrabi, potatoes, garlic, lettuce mix, bok choy, mustard greens, kale, and rosemary. Some items will be a choice.

Thanks to La Nina, climate change, regular fluctuations, or a combination of those plus other circumstances, this Late Fall season has felt like a warm dry breeze. In ten years of growing during the darker months it's probably not the first time temperatures have mostly stayed consistently above freezing, but this time around growing fresh crops feels a bit easier to do. Perhaps it's the aforementioned 10 years of experience with less mystery and uncertainty about how crops can deal with low light and colder temperatures. There was a season maybe 5 years ago when we had a balmy November and December and it felt like we could easily grow all winter long, then as January rolled around we endured extremely cold temperatures and highs stayed below freezing. So winter is still yet to come officially and I do hope we receive some legit cold for the natural cycles and systems to operate normally. Cold winter weather helps break the pest and disease cycle and makes farming organically without any sprays possible. All crops are currently uncovered and tunnels are being vented during these warm sunny days and above-freezing nights.

We're down to the final two weeks of Late Fall CSA but are already considering hosting our first 'flash sale' due to continued regrowth of tunnel greens and an excess amount of certain storage crops. Our goal is to fully harvest all greens and distribute all storage crops by the end of the season so we can finally fully rest but sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Late Fall CSA shares are meant to contain approximately 10-12lbs of produce and I believe we've been giving out about 14-15lbs weekly. Thanks to some bumper crops like sweet potatoes, potatoes, beets, and carrots this year's Late Fall harvest has felt particularly bountiful and full of variety. Now that we have sufficient tunnel space, greens are also in high supply. We're looking forward to very satisfying shares these final two weeks. Look for an e-mail announcement if we proceed with a flash sale. If it doesn't occur Wednesday 12/29 it won't happen until February.

Hope you're able to spend some quality time outside this week!