Wood Duck Farm

October22nd, 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 Chefs On Our All Star Line Up

We still have a few seats available for our Sunday October 24^th     Farm Dinner being hosted by Guest Chef Justin Bayse,  Chef de Cuisine at Stella Sola.  Chef Bayse 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.

Saturday November 13^th   Congrats to our next featured guest chef, Jon Buchanan, Executive Chef at Trevisio.   This past weekend, Chef Jon won the Risotto Festival Cook-off with his Risotto al limone e granchio, risotto with jumbo lump crab, lemon and fresh chives. Visit this link where Chef Jon gained the honors at the  International Risotto Festival 1st Place Goes to Chef Buchanan    More info below.

Dinner tickets for both events 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 (which includes tax and gratuity, a real bargain!) and the events will be BYOB. This Sunday dinner will begin with a reception around 2:30 or so and we will start our farm tour around 3:30  with dinner to follow around 4:30-5:00.  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 Mktl 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 our Face Book page as well.

All the Best,

Van Weldon

Cell 713 876 8645

www.woodduckfarm.com

email csa@woodduckfarm.com