I find myself by the stove alot lately…it is amazing how different canning is compared to our early years. We have our standbys now, our mainstays. Years of trials…tweaking recipes. It’s so routine now after years of 700 or so jars being put by each season. It is so nice turning to that well worn, splattered page for a quick reference… remembering at a glance exactly what I need. I felt like a true Vermonter…woodstove burning, chopping and canning the food we grew… in the house we built. We bought our land 17 years ago…am I a Vermonter yet?

It’s that time of year again…garlic being planting, frost blankets being laid on some of the best tasting salad greens of the year, synching down greenhouses…firewood. The list of offering starts to slow a bit, soon we will be down to one day a week of deliveries. Time to build! The shoulder seasons for farmers traditionally has been a time for catching up on farm maintenance, projects…maybe get ahead a bit. Our farm building has some work to be done. Some concrete to pour, windows to frame out and put in…sort of an enormous project really. The sooner we can let go a bit from the tugging garden beds we can begin to chip away at the long list of building tasks. Grateful for an incredible season of growing, the change of seasons, the challenging yet exciting new focus…

Fall has arrived! We just had our first frost on the farm. After alot of covering and uncovering everything looks beautiful. Our fields are absolutely bursting with Fall crops like mesclun, arugula, lettuce, baby kale, rainbow chard, carrots, cabbage, scallions, cilantro, parsley, french breakfast radishes, salad turnips, beets and bok choi. We are also stocked up with cherry tomatoes, heirlooms, potatoes, peppers and onions and winter squash.

You can find our produce at Littleton Coop, Hunger Mountain Coop, the White Markets in St. Johnsbury & Lyndonville and the East Burke Market.

You can also enjoy our produce when dining at Schilling in Littleton, the Rabbit Hill Inn, the Foggy Goggle, the Wildflower Inn and the Burke Mountain Hotel!

Small Axe Farm…