Wood Duck Farm

October 22nd, 2010

Dry weather continues to be the "theme" here at the farm. We can irrigate, but it is not a replacement for a good soaking of rain. The second week of the CSA went pretty good. Shares received an assortment of veggies including the following:

• Green Beans
• Okra
• Bell Pepper
• Tomatoes
• Summer Squash
• Cucumbers
• Baby Arugula and/or Salad Mix

What's Growing?We plant extra greens to compensate for the cooler nights and then the weather reverts back to summer conditions and everything speeds up again. The result, we have a lot of greens needing to be harvested at the same time. Not a bad problem to have, but it creates yet another challenge. On another front, the deer are really playing havoc with our squash and cucumbers as they're eating the plants, leaves, stalk, and all. We have electric fencing, but the dry weather does not provide the "ground" necessary to provide the shock from the fence. Go figure huh?

Next Guest Chef On Our All Star Chefs Line Up

We still have a few seats available for our Sunday October 24th Farm Dinner being hosted by Guest Chef Justin Bayse is Chef de Cuisine at Stella Sola and was named 2010 James Beard Award Semi-Finalist Rising Star Chef of the Year (FYI Deemed "the Oscars of the food world," by Time magazine, The James Beard Foundation Awards are the country's most coveted honor for chefs) The outstanding menu can be found at this link Sunday Afternoon Farm Dinner Menu Oct 24th Dinner is to be served outside. More info can be found below.

Dinner tickets can be purchased at our Urban Harvest Farmer's Market booth on Saturday morning or via PayPal on our website at Farm Dinner PayPal Purchase. Prices are $75 per person and the events will be BYOB. The Saturday dinner will begin with a reception around 3:30 or so and we will start our farm tour around 4 with dinner to follow around 5:00. The Sunday events will likely begin about an hour earlier. The dinner menus will focus on locally grown/raised food and will likely include five courses or so. For more info/photos about our earlier farm dinners visit WDF Spring Dinners.

Visiting the Urban Harvest Farmer's Market on Saturday morning or Wednesday's at lunch? Please stop by and say hi!

Incidentally, a lot of our farm events and details can be found on Face Book as well.

All the best,