Hi,

The Corning Farmers' Market will unfortunately not be open this Thursday July 4. Therefore here are your options for picking up your CSA share this week:

Elmira - Monday, Grove Park 3:00-6:00

Watkins Glen - Friday, Lafayette Park 3:00-7:00

On the farm - Monday, 11:00-1:00; Wednesday or Thursday all day; Friday 11:00-1:30 Address: 3859 Dugue Rd. Hector, NY 14841

Please let us know which day and location you plan to pick up. If you are picking up Wednesday or Thursday on the farm please let us know which crops you would like and please provide a couple alternates in case we don't have some of your first choices. Choose 7 items.

baby beets/beet greens
lettuce heads
kale
Swiss chard
zucchini
parsley
carrots
garlic scapes
spinach
cucumbers
broccoli
new potatoes
green onions
cabbage
a few peppers

green beans
also local, organic dry beans and flour

Goodbye TOTN

Ever since our days of interning at a small vegetable farm in Pennsylvania there has been one constant. Monday through Thursday at 2:00 we could always tune into NPR and be informed and entertained. Talk of the Nation was almost always interesting and it usually made us reconsider our own opinions. It has been our constant companion as we work outside weeding, harvesting and planting throughout the seasons and the years. We will miss you!!!!

As yet we have not had much to harvest, but almost every one of the 170 beds on the farm is planted. The only block that is unplanted at this point is the one that will be filled with winter squash and pumpkins this week. Two of the blocks are not planted with vegetables but some really nice, lush cover crop of oats, field peas and vetch. These will be mowed this week and incorporated into the soil to make way for our fall and winter crops which we will start to plant next month.
But most crops we are just waiting on and trying to keep the weeds at bay.
It looks like we'll have a few more things to harvest this week, though!

Choose 6:
spicy mix
baby beets/beet greens
lettuce heads
kale
Swiss chard
a few zucchini
parsley
carrots
garlic scapes
spinach
cucumbers
broccoli
new potatoes
green onions
cabbage
a few peppers
also local, organic dry beans and flour

The weather recently has been fantastic, plenty of rain and great temperatures for working outside.
So we will be rewarded, I think, with some nice produce in the next few weeks.
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There was a fire at cayuga pure organics, the place that we get the beans (and that grows some of the wheat for the flour) that we offer in the CSA share.  apparently their insurance won't cover the cost of rebuilding and they have a campaign to help rebuild.  check out the site, this is an important part of our food shed!  we'll be making a donation, we value what they are doing....want to learn more, check out their indiegogo site! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-cayuga-pure-organics-an-organic-non-gmo-farm-rebuild-after-fire?c=home

Choose 6:
spicy mix
baby beets/beet greens
lettuce heads
kale
Swiss chard
cilantro
parsley
baby carrots
garlic scapes
spinach
cucumbers!!??
also local, organic dry beans and flour

expected for next week:
all of the above plus new potatoes, broccoli,  maybe a few zucchini/summer squash and green beans

 This is why we haven't had any sunflower shoots lately. Wow the birds, chipmunks and squirrels REALLY love them. I think the chipmunks have been taken care of, now the squirrels are getting in.

Um, I think we should have picked this lettuce a little sooner.

Week 2:
Well, it looks like more rain headed our way for this week. I say bring it on! What a beautiful day today, though, after all that rain. Wow! the plants are just about popping with energy. Unfortunately so are the weeds. And with the oncoming rain, the next few days won't be good for cultivating or weeding.
Sorry no new pics yet this week. I'll try to rectify that soon!

This week's CSA
Choose 5:
spicy mix
lettuce heads
cilantro
parsley
baby carrots
garlic scapes
spinach
cucumbers!!??
vegetable transplants
also local, organic dry beans and flour

available plants

Available Plants (can get as a share item for the first week)

Herbs parsley, basil and dill

pickling cucumbers

Slicing Tomatoes   Rose de Berne, taste test winner dark rose color

                               Garden Peach, fuzzy like a peach! Sweet for a tomato

                                         Green Zebra, green with yellow stripes medium size
                                         Paul Robeson, black heirloom tomato
                                         Goldie, large yellow beefsteak meaty texture

Cherry Tomatoes Sungold, orange and sweet

                            red cherry

                            Black cherry farmer favorite!

                            Yellow mini, prolific producer!

                            Snow white, very light yellow, nice flavor!

Paste tomatoes red or white

Peppers new ace- Green to Red Bell
                                    Golden Treasure, long pepper that turns brilliant orange     

                            Jimmy Nardello, sweet frying heirloom pepper

Hot peppers Jalapeno, habenero, cayenne

Yellow Onions

lettuce cut and come again style or head lettuce

eggplant long skinny asian eggplants or Rosa Bianca an italian heirloom

husk cherries and tomatillos

zucchini

kale green curly and red russian heirloom

broccoli

Beans Haircort verts fancy green beans

Oh yeah, we will also have parsnips available for CSA this week.

Hi,
Welcome to the first week of CSA!
Well, as always we are starting slow. Here is what you can expect this week.

Choose 5 items:
Lettuce
Lettuce Mix
Spicy Greens Mix
Spinach
Cilantro
Baby Carrots
Vegetable transplants

Plus we'll have local, organic flour and dry beans (black and red) as part of the CSA too.