CSA Updates

September 3 Pickup

Dear CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard and Winery, Wow!  It’s hard to believe the summer just flew by!!  But things are still growing here – this week is the 10th CSA pickup for this season.  What we have done in the past is to have 12 consecutive pickups and then skip a couple of …

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PEACH ALERT!

Dear CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, All of our peaches are ripe and falling off the trees, as is the way of peaches.  After we picked for you on Wedl., we had to pick most of the rest of them today, and as you know, tree ripened peaches don’t keep well – they are …

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August 27 Pickup

Dear CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, Thanks to those of you who are helping with the freezer crisis.  I will never again raise 75 meatbirds to be in the freezer during blueberry season.  Our freezer management is almost a full-time job with the need to rotate our fruit for wine and chickens! Our summer …

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FREEZER CRISIS!

Hello CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, I have managed to get us into a freezer crisis by raising 75 meatbirds in the middle of blueberry season!  Now half the birds went to the butcher last Monday and half will go this Monday and our freezers are running over.  If any of you are thinking …

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August 20 pickup

Hello CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, Yeah for the sun!!!  We are raking like mad this week with a full crew on hand.  Our new apprentice, Dave Frey, is arriving tonight, and will be with us until December, and our son, Jacob, the fastest raker of all time, is coming in tomorrow.  It will …

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August 13 Pickup

Hello CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, We need more sundances!!  This rainy weather is not good for the veggies, the tomatoes are slow to ripen and the dampness encourages all kinds of molds and mildews, so let’s all dance!!  We are seeing some sungold cherry tomatoes out there and will harvest what we have …

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August 6 Pickup

Hello CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard and Winery, Blueberries are here!  We started raking last week and we need some dry weather now, as we can’t rake wet berries.  Please do a sun dance as all of this moisture is starting to be problematic.  It has already caused severe scab in the apples and …

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7/30 Pickup

Hello CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, It is hard to believe July is almost gone and August, with BLUEBERRIES, is here!!  We plan to start raking blueberries at the end of this week, so we will have them available for next week. But you can come out to the farm before that if you …

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7/23 Pickup

Hello CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, I am getting this out a bit late as I just returned last night from returning my grandkids to RI.  It is very quiet without them here and I miss them terribly, but it was wonderful to have almost two weeks with them!  They are becoming good little …

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July 16 Pickup

Hello CSA and Friends of Shalom Orchard, After the initial concerns about the cool spring, we are really into a beautiful season!  This week we have  broccoli, peas and cherries for you, in addition to most of the previous veggies.  And only about 2 more weeks until blueberry season starts!!  It is so great to …

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