Some Mondays, I get up and kind of know what we’re going to be working with over the course of the week ahead. On this particular Monday, we woke up to foggy fields and 48 degree temps, which definitely marked a change in course and yields for crops that have been wildly abundant for the past couple of months. The fruiting crops are slowing down. Tomatoes, melons, and cucumbers are still on for this week, but in much lesser degree. And fittingly, we’re picking the last of our Summer Squash and filling up many many bins of Winter Squash simultaneously this week. So, this is my roundabout way of suggesting that some of this stuff is going to feel more precious, and I encourage you to treat it as such in whatever way makes most sense to you—a fresh salad, a sandwich, straight up dripping over the sink, its up to you.

Now that the temps are coming down a little, I think it is time to start talking about soup. What a great topic! It is a great packable lunch, a wonderful dinner to come home to, and one of the unsung conversation starters of our time. Who needs “Two Truths and a Lie” as an icebreaker? I dare you—next time you’re getting together with a group, casually bring up a type of soup that you like, one that you’ve eaten recently or the one you’re excited to make, and then sit back and watch the camaraderie unfold, brought to you by none other than SOUP. This week, I’ve put together a handful of links for great late-Summer Soups that I am looking forward to making over the next few weeks to make the most of all of this unspeakably delicious Sweet Corn, the abundance of tomatoes and the stand of gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous Celery that we’ll harvest again this week, so be sure to scroll on through.

Labor Day snuck right up on us this year, didn’t it? Shout out to Farmer Mia and Farmer Kelly who arrived at the farm today to find hundreds of pounds of ripe and ready tomatoes waiting to be picked this morning. We were scrambling to find enough trays to hold them! Those ninety-ish degree days last week sped up their ripening big time. It also up a whole lot of Romano Beans and is blurring the timelines between our intended rotations of crops like sweet corn and varieties cabbage. In short—this is one big harvest week, which makes this a great time to consider squirreling a few tomatoes away in the freezer to pull out for a pot of sauce or soup when the cold and drear set in.