Earlier this week our market gardener John Curtis emailed everyone in our Barefoot Gardens CSA, inviting us to come get the last of the greens, before snow and sleet end the season for good. It’s been a long season, again: fall is stretching as our climate changes. I went to the garden after work, cutting a full grocery bag of lettuce, mesclun, and greens just before the sun set. Here’s a few pictures.
The sun set just after I arrived. Kelly (and Aiden) got there just before I did, and we walked around the garden together, munching and harvesting.
John always plants a few rows in curves. I love the contrast of the dried-out, dead crops with the crisp greens wandering along.
We can never get enough baby greens, especially when they’re this lovely.
So begins the garden’s sleep.