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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 11

Greetings CSA: This week’s newsletter will hopefully serve to wrap up a few loose ends. We bid a fond farewell to our summer apprentices and some of our youth instructor/WWOOFers this week and soon...

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 12

Greeting CSA, Well, we have made it to Labor Day weekend once again.  While we generally think of crowds at the beach and picnics and end of the summer parties, Labor Day has roots in true labor....

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 13

Greeting CSA, It is the time of year when the field evolves yet again.  Not the speedy evolution of a spring time field where you can almost watch the crops and the weeds grow.  This is a different...

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 14

Greeting CSA: As the summer winds down and the cool nights settle in, we find ourselves…well, we find ourselves busy again.  Sylvester Manor is buzzing with late summer/early fall work and activity....

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 15

Greetings CSA, On this 15th week of our CSA, we welcome the first day of autumn on the fall equinox. This week’s share offers a great selection of summer crops and fall crops. You will have two types...

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 16

Greetings CSA: Well, here we are officially into fall.  This is the time of year that the field starts to look bare.  Where summer crops once stood, naked soil seems to leave a void. You may find...

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 17

Hello CSA folk, It is a gray fall day as I write this farmer’s message for the seventeenth week of the CSA. The clouds are doing that thing where they pile up onto each other at the far end of the sky....

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 18

Greetings CSA, As often happens, seemingly faster and faster every year, the summer has come and gone in the blink of an eye.  We had some long hours, some long days, and even some long weeks. However,...

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 19

Greetings CSA, It’s the second to last week of the 2014 CSA and it was down right balmy today. I hope you are all getting your fill of outdoor activities before the cold sets in again. In a month’s...

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Farmer’s Message 2014 Week 20 – Final Summer CSA Message

Greetings CSA, Thank you for being a CSA member at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm. Thank you for volunteering at the distribution table. Thank you for restocking vegetables. Thank you for helping us...

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