This week’s harvest: tomatoes (cherry and big), basil, leeks, onions, purple carrots, peppers (serrano, jalepeno, sweet), daikon radish, head lettuce, chard, kale, cauliflower or cabbage (next week switch), apples, and sweet grapes (with tart seeds)!

What to do with all the food this time of year? First of all, enjoy it while it lasts with the looming inevitable frost. Old timers in the region tell us that it used to frost this time of year, but it hasn’t frosted until the end of September since we’ve been farming here, and 3 of the last 5 years we’ve made it into October! So come on green tomatoes, turn while you still have time!!

This week, we were generously offered apples and grapes by neighbors that both wanted humans to get to their fruit before the bears. Bears do quite a bit of damage to the trees and vines, never mind your nerves when you stumble across them. So you are the lucky benefactors of the fruits of the McClymond’s orchard and the Parcell’s grapevines.

Yes, exhaustion has set in for your farmers, but as much as we look forward to winter, we’d prefer to keep reaping the rewards of the season for as long as possible.

Linley, Peter, Reid, Charlie, Tim