Two Feet in the Dirt

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that all of you are enjoying a wonderful holiday today. I’m going to keep this week’s post short as we try to enjoy a somewhat work-free day ourselves, but wanted to confirm that, even with the holiday weekend, we will still be at Burke this Saturday as usual! See our full harvest list below. Last market, the large-leaf bunched spinach was a surprise hit, so we’ll be bringing even more of it this week! Enjoy the long weekend and we hope to see you on Saturday! Farmers Katie & Mike   This week at the market: Purple-topped turnips Lettuce salad mix Bok Choi Arugula Radishes Spinach...

We’re experiencing some exceptionally cold weather this week, with the highs on several days never topping the 30s and lows dipping into the low 20s and high teens. It feels more like January than early November! With winter seemingly upon us, this was the perfect week to finally pull out all of the tomato plants, which had been blasted by frost over the last few weeks. Mike has been hoping to have an opportunity to burn end of season plant debris for the last couple years and, with the tomatoes, he finally had his chance! Last year, we removed the tomatoes far before the frost date. With the continual heavy...