The long hot days of summer
are starting to dwindle down…even though it is still hot. The sun is coming up later and going down
sooner and the evenings are cooling down.
Have you noticed that some of the trees are already loosing their
leaves? There are moments when I can
smell fall in the air. The weather man
is predicting a nighttime temperature of 37 degrees on Wednesday night. Yikes!
I was looking forward to a long fall, but not an early freeze! We still have 4 more weekly baskets.
Are any of you canning this
year? If you need help with recipes and directions,
just let me know. I learned to can from
my Grandma and my Mom. It was a
summer/fall ritual. What we didn’t grow
ourselves we purchased from local farmers. My Grandpa had a root cellar where we stored
all of our bounty. I can still remember seeing
the visual beauty of all the colors and shapes in the glass jars that lined the
wooden shelves and smelling the damp musty aroma of the dirt floor where sand
filled crates held carrots, beets, and his award winning Canna Lily bulbs. Woven baskets were filled with sweet onions
and burlap bags were filled with potatoes.
Those were the days!
Your basket this week will be
filled to the brim with onions, carrots, beets, radish, cucumbers, eggplant, summer
squash, broccoli, tomatoes, a selection of peppers and beans. If you need dried dill seed for pickling or
dried cayenne pepper, just ask. I have
some ready.
As always, Thursday from 2-6
PM is your pickup day and time. Last
week was the first week that everyone actually showed up for their share! Remember to bring your box or bags to carry
your produce home and return the clam shells and plastic baskets too, so that I
can continue to reuse them.
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