ON FROST AND SUCCESS.

We got our first frosts this weekend. And It felt.... good. Really good. Sometimes frosts can come at the absolute wrong time––too early, too late, too unpredicted––but we were expecting these and we were excited to see them.Frost sweetens the greens. Frost kills off unwanted weeds. Frost makes an excellent last name. But moreover, frost marks the end of the season, and a good time to celebrate. Or at least you always hope so.Of course, things are still growing, and will continue growing well into the winter. But mostly it will be the crops we want to be growing––carrots, beets, greens. Otherwise, the summer weeds are toast, the winter cover crops are rocking, and the main bulk is out and safely stowed away.So now we finish up our season with our wonderful shareholders, and start planning next year's garden, looking at seed catalogs, and getting ready for what we feel will be our best year yet––2016. We're excited about our CSA––very––excited about our markets, and excited to still be farming six years in. Not every young farmer lasts that long. Not every young farmer gets to experience frost elation. But every time we make it to that first fall frost, we feel a little victorious––one more year down, one more year in the books, one more year of experience completed. And although we will only know a year from now how we did, we do think next year will be a great year––more mushrooms, more honey, more vegetables, more fun. More pigs? Maybe that, too. All that said, we truly won't know until those first fall frosts of 2016 when we can look around and say, "By golly, we did it again!" So thank you, frost. It's always good to see you.- Jesse.