Summer 2026 Week 22 Newsletter

Howdy Folks,

Chris has enrolled in a Matt Powers Regenerative Agriculture and Regenerative Microscopy class. So if you think his answers are longwinded….just you wait.

Remember Fall CSA Season Starts the second week of November, so if you are interested in purchasing a Fall share, and have yet to register hop on it!  We do have a limited number of fall shares.

Your Farmers, 

Chris, Aeros and The Who Crew

Brilliant yellow flowering mustard cover crop in the foreground and then the multicolored diverse woodland colors at peak fall color in the background.  The mustard flowers have a faint sweetness that they are wafting into the air, but you have to get close to them to smell it.  The bees know, they are all over the blooms, collecting their last stores of pollen for the season.

Chris seeding Spinach where it didn't take.  This has been our worst fall spinach year yet.  We are on our 4th seeding and hoping that we actually get a crop.  With the several plantings that haven't made it, its because either seeds rotted before they germinated, or they germinated and it got to hot, so they died.  Chris is filling in more seeds here where the spinach didn't come up in hopes for a later succession among the older planting. This is the spinach we will be bringing to our last markets of the season and also for our final weeks of the fall Traditional CSA shares.

Prepping garlic has been happening this week.  Breaking apart cloves and inspecting for disease and health of the bulbs that get separated, in preparation for planting 90,00 heads.

Here Emerson is using a newer machine we purchased from China.  They have all the cool tools for small diversified farms. This is a garlic splitter.  So instead of our whole crew working for almost 2 full days, it takes 2 guys 2 partial days.  It also makes for happier fingers, and hand joints, as many days of breaking up heads of garlic is hard on the hands.  This machine rotates the bulbs in a centrifuge with a pillow like bag slowly putting pressure on the bulb and releasing the cloves and then spitting out the stem and the loose paper.  

This is what the garlic looks like after coming out of the machine and after human hands have sifted through the bin to get out any stems or diseased seed missed when choosing heads.