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| These photos represent our weekly CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) boxes that run 20 weeks throughout the season. We are honored to feed our friends and neighbors every week. |
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| Our success is made possible by our friends that volunteer each week for a CSA share. We love our farm family! |
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| Over 100 lbs of strawberries this season! |
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| This year we also had a bumper crop of wild black raspberries, wild blackberries and more cultivated raspberries than any year before! |
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| Blackberries just starting to show up.. |
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| Our friends Mara & Jon had a beautiful, intimate wedding on our property in June. I hiked the first month of the Appalachian Trail with Jon 9 years ago!! And they hiked it together 4 years ago. Nothing but love for these rad friends. |
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| Our newest addition to our jam line is our "Wild Jam" that includes wild blackberries, wild black raspberries and wild wine berries (above). |
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| Monday is ladies day on the farm. Three volunteers really help with large projects. |
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| We had a crazy afternoon storm that knocked over our corn and broke our deck umbrella in half! All of the corn eventually did stand back up. |
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| Baby not included in CSA box. |
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| New jam labels |
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| Late night jam session |
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| Back up and ready to go |
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| Helping with (sleeping) so I can pick blackberries. For about a month, we have to pick blackberries every single day. |
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| Root Bottom shades from strawberry to wild black raspberry |
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| We had perfect weather for our August farm to table dinner. |
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| Our next big event, Pedal to Plate (bike to farm to table), is just around the corner Sept 17. Tickets available at rootbottomfarm.com/pedaltoplate |
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| Still have those giant pumpkin blue ribbon hopes. This year they grew right out of the compost pile. The one directly in front of Morgan imploded, but we have one contender for this year's County fair. |
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| Ugly is beautiful. Especially when it comes to heirloom tomatoes. |
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| Grape harvest |
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| Two farmers markets a week |
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| What a way to go. The white eggs are beneficial parasitic wasp eggs that actually eat the tomato horn worm from the inside out as they hatch. Nature is awesome. |
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| Making baby food |
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| Pear harvest from our neighbor's tree. We also harvested apples and pears from our young orchard. We are going into our fifth season and starting to see some results. As the old saying goes "the best time to plant an orchard is ten years ago. Or now." We plant our second orchard in spring 2018. |
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| End of the line for bad tomatoes are me making salsa & tomato sauce for the whole winter. This year we had salsa right until the next tomatoes showed up. Worth it! |
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| Missing, mismatched and broken. Finally renovated this sweet thrift store find in our kitchen. |
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| Farmers market flowers |
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| And just like that we get to wear long sleeves again. |
