Wave of Autumnal Colors: Delivery #12

Full Spectrum Wave of Dahlias

 Hello Moon Bears,

This is your Final Official Delivery for 2015.
There will be one more Bonus Delivery on September 17th. We'll trade the last ice chests in for the season then.

Thank You for a beautiful season. 

We so loved connecting with you and sharing the joys and challenges of the garden with you.

We have a grab-bag of goodness on this, our final week. Check out the photos of all plants showing off for the rain clouds:

Concord

Dahlia

The End of an Old Compressor Tank

At the Cleaning Station

 On Your Full Share Menu This Week
Rainbow Carrots
Gold and Purple Tomatillos
Beautiful Heirloom Tomatoes
Concord Grapes
Heirloom Apples
Lemon Cucumbers
Sea Kale
Rainbow Chard
Garlic
Various Items from the Cabbage Family like
Kohlrabi
Savoy Cabbage
Brussel Sprouts 

Tomatillo

Baby Zucchini
Winter Squash, Spaghetti and Carnival
Sweet Mini Bell Peppers

kohlrabi

Pictures Below: Notice the Doe on her way to much on the kale bed. When she saw me coming she went and hid behind the greenhouse. I just let her be, figuring that Autumn was a time to share the wealth.

See you on Thursday.
Rick

Recipe: Snap Pea Soup

3 cups sugar snap peas (stems & strings removed)

1 medium potato - chopped

2 cups veggie broth

1 small - medium onion chopped

1 ½ tsp salt

1 Tbsp coconut oil, raw virgin or olive oil

Chives &/or mint

Sauté the onion in oil for a few minutes. Add the broth and potato and simmer until almost tender. Add the peas and simmer a few more minutes until peas are tender-crisp.

Place everything in a high-speed blender, blend at high speed until smooth and creamy. Spice as desired.

Questions, Mantras and Prayers

Today: Our first Farmer's Market of the Season

           At Legacy Hospital, 2211 NE 39th St., Vancouver from 3PM till 7 PM

           Please Come by. We'll be here every Tuesday until the leaves fall.

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The garden inventory is high and growing. Today, the first wave of twenty four will sweep through the garden in a harvest for the people. I ask myself these questions:

Have I planted enough?

Have I planned well?

What beds to reseed?

What beds to retire?

These are the questions of life. 

I will just do what I can do, the best I know how. The only path now is between the rows of abundance, pulling what I need for my little acts of service and gratitude.

Instead of listening to the mantra of "It's not enough", I remind myself:

It's up to the plants now.

It's up to the Earth.

My efforts are all growing verdant in the field. 

These are the mantras of any working person.

Today is our first market as Moon Bear.

It's a good day to wield the knife in the tangle of stems.

It's a good day to harvest the bounty.

It's a good day to gently wash the dirt off the roots.

It's a good day to offer what only passed through my hands for a moment in time and space.

These are the prayers of anyone who wants to free.

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To the Moon Bear CSA: We will have your cooler and boxes ready here at the Art Farm, as usual, on Thursday  from 2 PM till Friday at noon. If you want to start picking up boxes at the Legacy Market on Tuesdays, let me know.

See you in the Garden,
Rick

Copyright Richard Sievers, July 2012, All Rights Reserved.