Doro and I (but truly, mostly Doro... by like 10-25%)'s last bundle of joy, for you all!!!

 Folks,

As I wrote in a recent email, it has been a pleasure being able to bring you sustenance these three months, and also creating a space where we could all be in community a bit more deeply than maybe would typically happen around the acquisition of foodstuffs. Here's what mostly-Doro helped harvest, clean and pack up for you all... wonderful little basket #10:

Hooray for the plants! Let's hear it for their dutiful photosynthesis!!! And, for the unending, dutiful care of those that try to save them... from the bugs, the weeds, the diseases and the lack (or glut) of rain ;)

Exceptionally special things in the share today are pickled beets from our garden made by the lovely and loving lady and queen of the veggie plot herself, Dorothea Schulz... and then some blackberries that our friends Danny and Laura allowed me to pluck from their bushes, the day before the share. Also, a butternut squash... new, maybe not exceptional to some of you. And, little baby-corns... we tried out a new spot for our corn-square, and despite what I thought was nicer soil they didn't do so well this year (maybe the TINY bit of shade they started getting later in the day, later in summer, caused the smaller ears?)

Other familiar faces:

cabbage        eggplants        two different sorts of mildly-spicy peppers        okra

            potatoes        garlic        cherry toms        zucchini        slicer toms

       basil (with lots of flowers that you can strip off and use to make basil oil)

Wow, that was a bit more fun... listing them like that! Two things Doro told me are important to tell you about this roundup (I agreed, BTW):  #1 -- eat the zucchini as soon as you can; these have been being kept in our fridge for the past couple of weeks, since we did one last pick-all when we saw the plants biting the dust from the vine-boring worms. Yours will not last much longer before there is a soft spot here or there that you'll want to cut out. And #2 -- two of the corns we shucked for ourselves we found a sole corn earworm in, munching away happily. You might want to shuck yours sooner rather than later... so you're left with 95% of your corn, instead of half or less =P For more fun reading: https://www.thekitchn.com/an-unavoidable-surprise-in-org-150669  

RE: The recently advertised end-of-share grill-out, potluck and all-around party... those of you who have responded leaned towards next Friday (19th); however it should be noted that I separately asked a few of you what you thought, THEORETICALLY, about bumping it further, to Saturday the 29th for example -- and you really liked the idea. Something about absence of the share/meetup for a couple of weeks would really sweeten the treat, of a special one-last-time gathering =) We'll decide and email you all about it in the next couple of days, OK?

Thanks again for being awesome people that we got to routinely take care of, in some small way!!!

DORO, MATT and the rest of the fecundity-fostering Coburn Cove Coop gang!