Oct 27

Summer hours (10 am-6 pm Mon-Sat) will be ending on Saturday November 15th. In the meantime you will still find a wonderful spread of late fall vegetables at the stand and on the website.
In the next few weeks we will fill the coolers and cellers with all the bounty that is still in the fields. This will be available throughout the winter, on our website, at the Potsdam Coop, and at our house on a call ahead or ring the doorbell basis. We will start a more relaxed lifestyle. There are some things that I like about winter. Daniel

Celeriac and parsnips

We still have a large selection of good food at our stand. Eat up on things like lettuce, celery, peppers etc. There lots of them now, soon they will be gone.
This is the season to be thinking about packing a stash of the storage vegetables away. Potatoes like cool and dark (45-55 degrees), Squash likes warm and dry (45-70 degrees), Onions and garlic like dry and some air circulation (32- 75 degrees) These are all harvested and ready for you now. Next week we will be harvesting red beets, carrots, turnips, rutabaga, parsnips, celeriac etc for storage. This group gets stored moist and as cold as you can with out freezing. You can pack them into wet sand or sawust to keep the humidity in them or if if you can keep them cold (30s)just plain plastic bags work ok. Should we save some for you?
Does your diet change as the selection of local food changes? Eat lots of what is in season; by the time you are tired of it something else will be coming into season. Daniel

Raspberries and Pac Choi

We are open today. (Columbus Day) The stand is packed full of wonderful, beautiful produce. I have some really nice pac choi right now and the spinach is mild and good and very abundant. It is still season yet for fall raspberries and at this moment there is nobody scheduled to pick at all this week. The mild weather and sunshine makes the berries sweet and good.

I plan to plant next years garlic this week and it is time to dig the glad bulbs. All the cover crops that I planted in the past month are coming up green and beautiful- This is a wonderful time of the year. Daniel

Storage Potatoes

Potatoes by the bushel, potatoes galore, we have red, white, russet, yellow,and sweet potatoes. We dug the Irish potatoes last week in that beautiful dry weather. It gave about 5 tons of potatoes. Bushels (40 lbs) of potatoes are priced at $20. It is best if you can bring your own bag or box to put them in. We also have seconds potatoes at half price. All our potatoes are grown without the aid of chemical fertilizers or any other chemicals. Enjoy the finest.
It is time now to be getting your winter needs of onions, squash and potatoes. Carrots, beets, parsnip, turnips etc are best left in the ground as long as possible. For best storage wait for those until the last week of October. Daniel

Peppers, arugula and watermelon

We are having wonderful growing weather again. I was impressed this morning how much the spinach, lettuce, cilantro etc. grew over the weekend. The plantings that are timed for October will get ready. I was not sure about them for a bit in that cold cloudy weather a few weeks back. The arugula is exceptionally mild and sweet right now- give it a try.
Now is the time to get your sweet and hot peppers for freezing or pickling if you have not done so yet. We have lots of them right now.
I picked 3000 lbs of watermelons on Friday. From now till the pile gets small we are giving a free watermelon to anybody that buys one. (buy 1 get 1 free).
I am looking for a few good deer hunters. If interested contact me or Melvin. Daniel

September 22

We had frost the one day last week but it did not kill everything. The peppers and beans survived. The top leaves were burned off. We have a small stream of tomatoes coming from the greenhouse again. You will also find a splendid selection of all sorts of fall vegetables on the website and in our stand. This includes cabbage, beets, sweet potatoes, lettuce, white, red, and russet potatoes, kale, pak choy, celery, onions and much more. Come and check us out- you will find something that is good for your supper. Daniel

Potatoes and canning tomatoes

Fall is coming and it is getting pretty cool to be out picking early in the morning. Long johns and a good coat help a great deal however to make it ok to be out.
We have a lot of canning tomatoes right now. Last week we were picking over 1000 lbs at a time and most of them found a good home. It looks to me that the tomato supply will drop a lot soon so do not procrastinate.

We planted 1200 lbs of seed potatoes in late June. Potato bugs can be a problem for organic potatoes, however if they are planted in late June they usually do not get many bugs. This is one of the reasons we plant the largest amount of potatoes so late and only small amounts early for new potatoes. We should have a large amount of Irish potatoes available in late October. There are red, white, russet, and yellow kinds planted. Daniel

Sweet potatoes

In the next few days we plan to be starting the sweet potato harvest. They will be available for fresh eating right away. I need about a week or ten days after digging them to cure them for storage. We are also planning to start hauling winter squash in from the fields. Not all of them are ready yet. The best selection for storage Squash will be in about two to four weeks from now. Most of the onions are finished curing however The copra is not ready yet. The website is open for orders. Daniel

Fall Raspberries

Today is Labor day and yes we are open. There is a wonderful selection of good food for us to pick in the gardens this week. The website is also open for orders. This is prime tomato season. You should get your canning tomatoes in the next 2-3 weeks. You will also find a beautiful selection of all sorts of tomatoes for your sandwich or salsa. We also have the sweet onions, lettuce, and hot peppers, garlic, basil, cilantro, sweet peppers and more to complete your recipes. Fall raspberries are in season from now till mid October. We are offering them u-pick by appointment. There tends to be lots of openings as we get towards the end of the month. You will also find an intermittant supply of already picked raspberries on the stand throughout the season. Daniel

Aug 25

We are starting into the big onion harvest this week. I pulled about 1000 lbs of sweet onions this morning. In the next few days I plan to also do the storage onions. After they are harvested we put them into onion crates so that the air can circulate around them for the curing process. Even after they are cured an onion still wants some air around it for it to store well. Storage temperature for onions is 32F to 80F. If an onion is kept cold for an extended period of time and then is stored warm afterward it will tend to sprout. This is part of the reason that onions sprout so much in the spring as the cellars etc warm up. So it is best to keep onions above 50 if you can not continue to keep them cold. Our market is full of lots of good produce. I hope you can get your share of this good food. Daniel