Cyrena Thibodeau, one of this year’s student staff members, wrote up an update about what’s happening on the farm!

Greetings UW farm fans! Here’s a glimpse of what is going on at the UW the farm in August:

What we are growing at both of our sites hasn’t changed much from our last update but we are harvesting peppers, eggplants, okra, tomatoes, parsley, dill, cut flowers, basil, cilantro, onions, bush beans, lettuce, cutting greens, chard, kale, collards, cukes, summer squash, cantaloupe, watermelon, cured garlic, fennel, and leeks will be ready soon!

At Mercer we are harvesting; radishes,carrots, beets, mustard greens, and tomatillos. Potatoes will be dug up soon, berries are having a second wind, chinese cabbage will be ready soon, and hakurei and salad turnips are getting huge and will be part of our fall CSA boxes.

We have so many tomatoes on the farm! in one day we harvested 90+ lbs!

We are continuing the weekly CSA boxes and harvesting for HFS. We have also been hosting a farm stand across from gasworks park in the fisheries supply parking lot every Friday from 4-7pm. This month we will be working on planning a CSA potluck, a canning workshop, and a cob oven building workshop. Farm interns and volunteers will be making some farm visits soon.