WEEKLY UPDATES FROM THE FARM

Last week of October box prediction featuring red bell peppers, Ojai Pixie tangerines, green beans, green kabocha squash, Big Beef tomatoes, and green leaf lettuce, plus a recipe for Roasted Kabocha Squash.

Anticipated harvest for the week of October 19: avocados, Ojai Pixie tangerines, Mountain Magic tomatoes, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard and apples, plus honeynut squash and red kiwis in the large box — and a recipe for Roasted Sweet Potato.

This week’s anticipated harvest features a brand-new crop of chard, delicata squash, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers and Fuji apples, with possible Fuyu persimmons and pomegranates in the fruit expansion, plus a recipe for Egg Bites.

The little bok choys are finally ready, joining orange sweet potatoes, Sweetie apples, zucchini or cucumbers, red onions, and Ojai Pixies in the basic box, with basil, cherry tomatoes, dragon fruit, and garlic in the bigger shares. Plus an easy bok choy method, double chocolate zucchini muffins, and a featured Baked Apples recipe.

Our Big Beef tomatoes aren't quite ready, so extra-large Mountain Magic tomatoes are stepping in this week alongside Dino kale, celery, red bell pepper, Bartlett pears, and avocados — plus Ambrosia melon, romaine, carrots, kabocha, shishitos, and passionfruit in the bigger shares. Includes simple recipe ideas for every share size and a featured Romaine Cranberry Pear Salad.

Pickles the goat attempts a great escape and the first melons of the season arrive—this week's boxes bring melons, green beans, zucchini, Ojai Pixies, strawberries, and more summer abundance.

This week's anticipated harvest brings avocados, strawberries, blackberries, heirloom tomatoes, green leaf lettuce, and carrots, plus farm-fresh Heirloom Tomato Toast and a high-protein Healthy Carrot Cake recipe.

Boxes are confirmed for the week — basic shares get zucchini, red leaf lettuce, fennel, Ojai pixies, avocados, and cucumbers, with parsley, dino kale, carrots, and strawberries in regular adds and beets, arugula, pickling cukes, cherimoya, and Green Gem lettuce in large. Fruit expansion is blueberries and blackberries. Plus an easy parsley chimichurri, duck egg ideas, and a featured Fennel Orange Salad.

Spring is really starting to peek its head out. Here's an early look at what might be coming in this week's basic box—carrots, green leaf lettuce, curly kale, strawberries, avocados or zucchini, and possibly leeks. Plus a featured recipe from Megan @cookingbymeg: a Sunday Showstopper Salad built right out of the Basic Box.

Carolyn here on my last week. Sixteen years ago when I met Mathew Givens, I could have never imagined how deeply this farm would change the trajectory of my life.At the time, I was transitioning out of the corporate world, searching for something that felt more aligned, more honest, more rooted. I didn’t know that the soil beneath my boots would slowly begin to shape the woman I was becoming.