Happy Fall, Y’all! We’re switching over to our Fall CSA & Hours starting this week. The Farm will be open on Tuesdays 12-6pm and Wednesdays from 10am-5pm from now through December 9th, and we're looking forward to sharing another great season with our CSA Members and local customers! (No Saturdays until next Summer, though).  Remember—you don’t have to be a CSA Member to shop at our Farm Stand, and it will still be stocked with an array of organic seasonal produce and local foods.

Every Fall, we look forward to providing an opportunity for people to taste and cook with a variety of Winter Squashes, Pumpkins, Pears and Apples at their peak.  And I really mean it—there are THIRTEEN varieties of Organic Washington Apples available at the Farm Stand this week, many of which are heirloom varieties that we only get to enjoy for a short window each Fall. So, if you’ve been craving the sweet snap of a new-crop Apple, you’ll want to get over here.

This is the last week of Summer Harvest at Wild Hare, and I’ve walked countless laps around the field today, looping around the various pathways that Mark has recently mowed, doubling back through areas that have held things like peas and beans at the start of the season, stumbling over vines and soaking my pantlegs thoroughly in places where big beautiful brassicas and root tops await our attention (for the eight months of the growing year that aren’t Summer).  Nothing overwhelms me or calms me quite like a walk around this farm does, and today.   Today, I set out to clear my mind and to frame out my last note of the season to you all, gratitude being one of the most intense feelings that this farm brings about in me.  The message that I want you all to hear is this:

Today is the Autumnal Equinox, but we’ve got TWO more weeks of the Summer Season at Wild Hare before we make our switch to Fall on October 6th.

The seasons sort of bleed into one another this time of year, mapping awkwardly onto dates that we picked a year ago, not really knowing whether the Summer stuff will drop off abruptly or if the Fall stuff will mature a little bit ahead of schedule. This year, I feel fortunate that Summer is tapering off gently and that I haven’t had to enjoy my last fresh Tomato or Melon just yet. But, hold onto your ladles and roasting pans. Autumn’s abundance is arriving already!