CSA shareholders can visit the farm to pick your own Sunday through Thursday during daylight hours. Visit the red pick-your-own kiosk in the fields for a list of available crops and picking supplies.

It's been more watering for us this week as the weather continued to be hot and dry. Thank goodness for our irrigation system, which, despite some continued low-pressure issues, has been pumping out water to our fall crops throughout the week. We are now in a full-fledged water crisis on the farm and it is affecting all of our crops in quantity and sometimes in quality. You may note lack of moisture has minimized disease pressure on our tomato plants and therefore kept our losses to disease very low. Our carrots are also very small but very tasty -- the lack of water has concentrated the sugars in them and made them sweeter than usual.

You will begin to see more fall crops in the share beginning this week, including potatoes and winter squash from Picadilly Farm beginning September 11. We've been continuing to plant lettuce and seed greens every week despite the lack of rainfall, and we should have beautiful fall greens throughout September and October if we can keep them watered. Broccoli and cauliflower will also make a reappearance in September, aided by irrigation, and summer squash and cucumbers will gradually fade away in the next week or two. Towards the end of the season, we'll have more kohlrabi, cabbage, celeriac (celery root), parsnips, fall carrots and beets.