I wanted to share this e-mail with you from Genesis Growers. I asked Vicki during the summer if it would be alright for me to do that on my blog. She said yes of course. Her e-mails convey a sense of farm life. They give us insight into the "rhythm" that nature imposes on the farms in our area. She understands how to be a part of a community. I feel lucky to receive the communications from her weekly and to have access to her amazing product. I will add the availabilities list on but am not guaranteeing that she will have all the items at Green City Market this Wednesday because chefs might buy them:
"We are but 7 days from the shortest day of the year. Hoorah! Soon we will be heading back up. On the farm, I really notice things like the position of the sun. It now arches low across the sky to the south in a sweeping arch. It is dimmer, far less potency in its rays. the plants notice it as well. They will tilt toward the south just a bit, and those plants who require a certain number of hours of sun just absolutely refuse to develop until they get the daylight hours they require. I have thought about trying a short day onion, like a Vadalia in the winter to see if it would bulb up here in February or March for nice winter knob onions. Perhaps I will try it next year. The experiments are what I love the most. It is my playtime. As a farmer it is nice to have a crop that is not grown so much for its monetary dividends as for its satisfaction. I did peanuts one year in big bushel pots. The pots came in when it got cold out and kept growing. My yield was teeny, but fun. (I am not even a peanut fan, but I did enjoy my own personally grown peanuts.) We are running out of a few items due to good responses from all of you. Thank you. I will post when we are about to run out of an item so you are kept abreast of availability.
Available crops:
Cabbage-Red and Green
Beets
Red
Carrots - available as mixed color bulk also
Specify size: baby, medium or large carrots
Purple
Red
White
Orange
Celeriac
Greens
Small orders of kale and lettuce heads available.
Kohlrabi - last week
Onions-
Cipollini - Red Piata - small orders only - last week
yellow (spanish)
Bermuda - Red Bull
Pie pumpkin
Radish,
Daikon
Red Meat - nicely red - last week
black Spanish
Shallots
Squash, Winter
Acorn
Buttercup
Butternut
Carnival
Kabocha, Green or Red
Red Kuri
Sweet Dumpling
Turnips
Hakurei -last week
Golden Ball
Vicki
Genesis Growers
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