Summer 2026 Week 19 Newsletter
Howdy Folks,
A couple reminders:
We have a Fall CSA! It’s a 6 week program that goes from 2nd week of November until the week before Christmas. We don’t have farmers market pick up locations, but we have over 50 pick up locations in the greater Pgh area. Sign up if you are not feeling like heading to markets in the cold damp weather, yet you still want to get yourself some Who Cooks Grub. We have many pick up sites that are close to both markets. Just an idea if you have yet to try a traditional CSA with us. Also it’s not just our produce, we offer add on shares as well. Some of the vendors you may be familiar with from Pittsburgh markets, ei, Woolf Farm supplies our fruit share, and Real Fungi our mushroom shares.
Remember October 12th, we are having another Open Farm Holiday Monday Potluck! From 2pm - 6pm. Here is a link to let us know if you are coming!
Open Farm Holiday Monday Schedule
2:00 - 3:30 - Potluck Table Set and Ready to Share, as well as a vegetable social of sorts, we are hoping for a garlic social; this is when you sit around and split open garlic heads, separating the cloves from the head in preparation for seeding. If we can find our cornhole set, we'll have corn hole to play.
3:30 - 4:30; 5ish - On Farm Walking Tour & Vegetable Social Still Open
4:30 - 6:00 Vegetable Social & Potluck Hang Out with your farmers and fellow Who Cooks Eaters.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Vegetables! The delicata and honey nut squash are delicious for dinner, but then also when you have already made them the night before, they are super easy to heat up quickly on the range in a warm frying pan to accompany an egg for breakfast! We eat them with our hands, just like you would a danish. Delicious! Salads too, a little bit of green at every meal. Pea shoots, lettuce, arugula, spring mix, or cooked greens sauteed with onions or garlic or massaged in salt and oil. Aeros prefers greens as a fiber staple and Chris loves his beans, so we get a little bit of these with many meals in the day. This season we have really gotten into eating beans again. Chris grew some Cranberry beans, and they are tasty! So we make a pot a week and throw them into dishes or have them on the side with a little salt and olive oil.
The Cranberry beans will be available until we sell out. We are bagging them into 1# lb bags. We grew a couple different varieties and they are slowly turning their lack of luster brown in the field and then we bring them into the greenhouse to dry, then they get pounded out of their pods and then winnowed free of the pods debris. So you get the beautiful end result beans!
We still have an assortment of veggies to choose from, we have yet to have a frost, but it’s coming. These last few nights we saw 34 degrees! Luckily the basil was double covered and the peppers are burly enough to take these temps for a bit.
Your Farmers,
Chris, Aeros, and the Who Crew
The manure spreader broke down after one pass in the hoophouse.
So we fixed the chain link that broke! We thought this was the only problem, but once it started to move again we realized that the floor had rotted in parts, so it made it's way out of the hoophouse for a more extensive repair. (This will most likely be done in the quiet of winter.)
Since we couldn't get it fixed, we went back to the old method of compost on the wagon unloaded via shovels. Now this is a good work out! Here Jose and Manuel make it look like light work. The tractor drives their pace and it gets done, load after load, slow and steady wins this race!