Early Winter

Late November, 2025

We’ve pulled a lot of food from the garden in the last couple weeks—mostly cold hardy greens and root vegetables. We really did have a long harvest season this time around the sun. I’m using the past tense, though. With snow falling now as I type and single digit temperatures in the forecast for the next couple nights, it’s probably the end of the season now. This weekend, our Thanksgiving table represented the beautiful abundance that we’ve grown accustomed to. We are grateful to have so much variety and opportunities to share it. It is all is a lot of work, too, and we now welcome the seasonal changes.

Salad Greens; "Shellies” (fresh-shelled beans)

Harvesting

• Arugula

• Beets

• Carrots

• Chicories

• Collards

• Fresh-shelled beans

• Kale

• Leeks

• Parsley

• Parsnips

• Sage

• Thyme

• Radicchio

Planting

• Garlic, planted and mulched

Seed Saving

• Processed more broccoli seed for storage

Tending

• Mulched the tender perennials (lavender and figs)

• Raked leaves (and gathered them from the neighbors) to use as mulch. All bare beds are covered to prevent weeds from growing in spring and to add organic material.

Up Next

We’ll prune fruit shrubs and trees while dormant this winter.

Leeks and Carrots