Farm Update 9/18/24
Chilefest, Farm Stand Updates
Harvest is upon us. On a daily basis we are bringing in hundreds if not thousands of pounds of produce. This is a special time when everything is ripe and we dance around the first frost of fall.
To celebrate this special moment of the season we will be hosting Chilefest, our annual chile roasting festival, on Friday September 20th from 4-7pm. A festival it is setting up to be! We will have on display, and for sale, well over 20 kinds of peppers we grew this past season ranging from sweet to serious heat.
Chilefest shines with a special light this year as last season we didn’t harvest a single pepper from our field after being mauled by a late season hailstorm. Harvesting a crop is no small miracle, especially when it needs all season to mature. We are truly grateful for pepper abundance this season!
We are pumped to have the chiles represented in our friend’s Rodrgio’s cooking. Santa Elena is putting together an amazing meal to accompany the flames and peppers. It is going to be a lovely evening celebrating the harvest and the shifting seasons.
On another note starting Wednesday September 25th our Farm Stand will be self-service rather than staffed. Bear with us as we make the transition and iron out any kinks. Hours will remain the same through October 27th, then shift as we head into winter.
Hope to see you this week!
Farm Stand Hours: 10-6pm Wed-Friday, 10-4pm Saturday and Sunday
Hopefully stocked this week:
Greens: Hearts and Souls Salad Mix, gem lettuce heads, summer head lettuce, chard, kale, arugula, bok choi
Roots: Onions, shallots, beets, carrots, turnips, radishes and garlic
Veggies: Cherry Tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, field tomatoes, summer squash, shishito peppers, Salvatierra peppers (spicy poblano flavor), fresno peppers, Jimmy Nardellos, eggplant, dragon tongue and green beans, fennel
Flowers: Large mixed bouquets
Herbs: Parsley, dill, basil
Lehi Ranch, High Point Bison, KREAM Kimchi, Jodar Farms Eggs, Rey Atelier Home Goods, Bread Chic Sourdough, Fox Den Coffee, Owl Tree Farm Worm Compost, Bee Squared Apiaries Honey, Abuelita’s Hot Sauce, Christie Leighton Jewelry, Life’s A Buch Kombucha
Expanded Winter CSA! The CSA will run from November-March offering pre-packed veggie boxes complete with a range of delicious winter produce. This is made possible by a new EQIP funded high tunnel that will help us offer fresh, unheated, greens throughout the cold season. Don’t miss out on the unique and delicious flavors of cold sweetened produce.