It was snowing at my cabin in Eldora, and the weather down on the farm in Lafayette was looking pretty chilly.  The weather called for a low of 34 Tuesday, so I headed back down the hill to help Tracy, Carlos, and Jillian harvest tomatoes, basil, and some other items just in case the weather decided to take a bite out of our warm weather crops.  Carlos & I tried to cover the sensitive crops with row cover, but some of the remaining row cover was pretty worn out after being used all season.  We did get the peppers, eggplant, and some tomato rows covered.  Tracy & Jillian harvested a lot of basil since the cold weather was already trashing some plants.  It looks like they saved a lot, and we’ll definitely have fresh basil for Wednesday’s CSA pick-up.  We also plan to dry a bunch and if we have enough we can offer bags of dried basil also.

Hard to believe we are quickly approaching October!  Hard to believe that, soon, we will no longer have all the fresh, extremely local, produce that we’ve been spoiled with for the past four to five months.  Maybe we need to offer a Fresh Produce Rehab course!