Fall Glam Shots

Our Fall Produce Subscription!

If you're interested in subscribing to our weekly produce box, check out our OTHER website, littlesparrowfarm.wordpress.com.

You'll find information on reserving your spot, the CSA start date, and what we have growing at the farm.  Or, email us at littlesparrowfarm@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

Here is the condensed version of what you'll find at our other website:

Our Fall CSA Starts October 16th!

We offer a produce box weekly or bi-monthly to our farm subscribers.  Every week, we put together a $20 box of whatever is in season at the farm, and then you come pick it up on:

Tuesdays in Mid City at Cleveland and Cortez, 4-7pm
Wednesdays in Lakeview on 14th between Pontchartrain Blvd & Fleur de Lis Blvd, 4-7pm

The Fall season starts Tuesday, October 16th, and lasts through mid-December.  As a subscriber, we ask that you commit to those 10 weeks of boxes.

We encourage prepayment, and there is a small discount for those who choose to do so:

• $190 for weekly subscriptions (10 boxes)
• $95 for bi-monthly (5 boxes)

In early October, we’ll hold a farm open house and sidewalk sale for us to meet you, pick up pre-payment checks, and show you around the site!

If you are interested in a weekly produce box, please email us at littlesparrowfarm@gmail.com to reserve your spot!

If you are interested in learning more about subscribing to our Fall CSA,
Sign up for our email newsletter!

This will give you directions for how to sign up with us to receive a weekly $20 box of produce.

Starts!

Here is the first row at the site in Lakeview.  We had some crookneck and zucchini that were ready to venture out into the wild world.  This is our first try with brush-cut Iron and Clay peas as a green manure.

Anneka weeding the sweet potatoes.  

...after brush cutting....

...making room for the plants and mixing in compost to make hills...

...and it rains right on time!

I cleared the middle section of the Mid City garden and broadcast Sorghum Sudangrass for soil building, a smother crop, hopefully cutting for mulch, and root knot nematode suppression.  We had some gnarled carrots last year in a small patch of this section.  After watching it come up a little spotty I'll use the seeder next time as it likes to be drilled according to the SARE cover crop book.

Banana spider (golden orb-weaver?)

 I wasn't rooting for the spider in this bout....

...but it didn't need crowd support.

 Our mirliton suddenly started struggling.  I am pretty sure it is infected with the Anthracnose disease caused by a fungus.  It eats these "shot holes" in the leaf according to Dr. Lance Hill at  Mirlitons.org.  I am wondering if some large galls on the stem at the root might be signs of root knot nematode damage, another common problem, but I have to do more research and send pictures to Professor Hill.  It may be time to start a new plant and build a good horizontal trellising system which might be a good cure for rotting watermelons too.

I just started looking into this 4 inch slug I found.  It looks like a Tropical Leatherleaf slug, an invasive  that sounds pretty threatening to the not-too-reliable looking Wikipedia article (see the section on feeding habits).

Sweet Potatoes on the Bayou

Still trying to figure out how to do raised beds with voracious johnson and bermuda grass on all sides.  I picked up the vines and put them in the raised bed, dug out all the grass and roots I could, and planted a buffer of Iron and Clay Peas.  Might add some buckwheat on the edges too.  Its never looked this good.  We'll see what it looks like in a month...

you can never have too much eggplant

summertime bugs

Some moth chrysalis

 leaf footed stink bug

Some other stink bug

southern green stink bug (larva)

 adult southern green stink bug

 Leaf footed stink bug nymphs

Regal looking grasshopper

Gecko hunting?

It was doing this amazing dance with its cheeks.  Face cheeks that is.  Hard to explain.