Twelve CSA member families turned up on this cold cold October Saturday to help us celebrate the end of the gardening season. Some strolled around the farm, others went  scavenging vegetables from the garden to make up the harvest pot, and some chatted with each other and with the film crew covering the event for a documentary.

The kids seemed to have a wonderful time running around, harvesting the supersized carrots that were left, collecting leaves and pine cones, spooking each other in the trees around the site when it got dark, and skimming the dessert table.

The harvest pot was wonderful, and in addition we had homemade breads, assorted sausages on the barbeque, hot (well, warm) apple cider and the much appreciated Beau’s beer. Guests brought appetizers and desserts, and it all made up a terrific feast!

The kodak moment for me was looking around, after ladling out the harvest pot for a while, to see all these lovely people bundled around the campfire, sharing the meal and communing with the farm. Too bad I didn’t have a camera…

It was a great boost for us, the farming family, to get so much positive feedback on the vegetable baskets this year. When we got together over coffee on Sunday morning and talked — again! — about plans for next year, it was in a notably more upbeat tone.

Thanks to all who came out to the farm, thanks for your contributions in food and help with the party, thank you for sharing your thoughts on the CSA project, and especially thanks for your support of local farming.

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