It’s hard to believe the first week of September is here! While we enjoy the peak of harvest, we are also busy preparing for fall.

We have cool weather crops ready to succession plant and have harvested seeds drying out on screens for future seed-saving. We’re stockpiling straw, leaf compost, and low tunnel supplies to overwinter home and community garden spaces, and of course, we’ve already started making written plans for the next growing season. Oh, and we even tidied up our portable hoop house.

Home garden participants are receiving these seed-saving kits as incentives this year, along with extra resealable seed envelopes and labels. We can’t wait to add some of our newly saved seeds to the kits and offer them another tool for managing their gardens.