09/22/2026
Seeing double this year! I try to notice and snap a photo of a curiosity I find fascinating: fasciation. It can happen to any plant, though some are more prone to it than others. Some day, I’ll collect hundreds of these photos, but three is all I could find for now to share with you in honor of thr Autumnal Equinox.
We can certainly all see the signs here-it came on pretty quickly this year with the rains, cooler nights, and now changing colors, leaves falling, mushrooms everywhere-and I feel an incredible sense of relief that we have made it this far into the growing season.
There is no “over” when you grow year round, but with only a few more weeks of our 5 month CSA season, we set our sights on slowing down, organizing, tearing out crops (not yet though!), and preparing for garlic and then winter greens. We do have gaps in our harvesting come December and January-but local agricultural has so much to offer, the store will remain open year round. It’s a big undertaking and we’ve received so much positive feedback, we will keep at it.
We set a record this season for wildest ride, I’d say. Our labor force fluctuated intensely, along with the weather swinging from drought and extreme heat to deluges and cooling temps. It’s all part of the deal-knowing we cannot change the season we are in, and sometimes, we don’t even know what season that may be, until it passes.
So, may this Equinox,
where the sun rises due East and sets due West, where for one day the daylight and night time hours are equal, where we can witness the migrations of birds and butterflies, and we all layer up, seek warmth, and scurry around preparing for the seasons to change once again
teach us lessons we haven’t learned yet, guide us in our work and play, to be more open-hearted in the face of challenging and sometimes painful transitions.