Rain & scrumptious veggies for the holiday

The weather forecast for the rain kept on changing and we didn’t know how much we were going to get last Friday and Saturday.

Fortunately the rain right after we finished for the day and mainly rained overnight before the farmers market except for one short storm of 10 minutes where it was coming down hard just after we packed up at the market.

We ended up getting one inch of rain on the farm which the soil soaked in very nicely and the rain hopefully will help our cover crop we seeded last week start to germinate.

With the cooler temperatures it took a day for the soil to dry out so we stayed out of the field on Sunday and even in some areas on Monday so that we didn’t compact the soil.

There isn’t any rain in the forecast so we will be able work in the field weeding and doing any other tasks we need.

If you need any veggies for either a mid-week resupply or to prepare for your Thanksgiving meal stop by the Davis Farmers Market today from 11-5 pm.

We will have lots of veggies that can be included in your Thanksgiving meal whether you need some winter squash, turnips or carrots to roast or you need some fresh greens on the table.

We are so grateful for all the support everyone has giving us in these first two years of farming whether or not you have bought any veggies from us. It makes us even more motivated and excited to continue growing the best food we can while taking care of the land and getting more people to see the benefit of locally grown food.

Growing enough onions so we had some until Thanksgiving was a goal this year and we still have some but it likely will be the last of them this week.

A good alternative to onions is leeks which we have a field full of them and they bring a more delicate flavor than onions. We also have garlic but our supply is running low on that also.

We finally got our last plants out of the greenhouse Tuesday as we put the onions that overwinter into the ground. This is our smaller planting of onions and will be ready earlier than the ones we plant in the spring.

Some of them will be harvested for spring onions and all of them will have slightly less of such a strong onion flavor to them due to growing over the winter when it is colder.