Happy new year!  It's hard to believe, but our annual break in the vegetable production is almost over.  December is the one month out of the year we don't plant anything new.  By January we're planning and planting for your spring crops already.  Time to start perusing all the seed catalogs that have been arriving in our mailbox the last few weeks, and thinking about seed orders this weekend!

I like to think of winter vegetables as stored sunshine.  Not much new growth happens through the darkest months of the year.  We plant for fall and winter in late summer, hope those seedlings absorb as much of the tail end of the season's warmth and light as possible before the short dark days set in, then watch the plants go into a hibernation mode over the winter.  The past few months have been one of the wettest seasons on record for our area.  There just hasn't been a lot of sunshine for your veggies to store, so we've seen much slower growth than usual.  On the bright side, it's been far warmer than ordinary, so we haven't lost much to icy weather - a welcome change after the past two winters.

Thank you very much for your business, eat well, and have yourself a great week!

Happy holidays!  Our honeybees and produce have been enjoying the unusually warm December weather this month, hope you are doing the same.

We will be delivering to Harmony Farms on Wednesday 12/23 for our CSA customers.  Farm pick-up will only be available on Wed 12/23 this week.  I will be at North Hills for the Midtown pre-Christmas market on Wednesday, 12/23, from 4-6pm (as it is dark by 5:30, I may leave a little early if the lighting is poor).  Please have any orders for Wednesday submitted to me by Tuesday night.  There will be no market at Midtown this weekend on Saturday 12/26.  We will be back to our usual schedule next week.

We had a very busy weekend, and are sold out of a few of our usual items for the time being, but still have a great selection of produce for your holiday tables.  Tons of greens for salads or cooking, huge heads of beautiful cauliflower.  All of the main crowns of broccoli off the current planting have been harvested, there are just a few secondary side-shoots available this week until the next round of broccoli is ready.  Some smallish but delicious heads of radicchio (average 1 pound each).  Sweet and tender baby beets, with greens.  Getting down to the last of the turnips.  Large, tender celery that is at its finest quality this time of year. 

Thank you very much for your business, eat well, and have yourself a great week!