We have had our first frosts and the very first snow flurries of the season. That means that the root vegetables we are harvesting will be a little sweeter than usual as a cold snap converts some of the starches to sugar.

The cover crop has grown taller, lush and green; it hasn’t taken a sustained hard freeze yet. There are lots daikon radishes throughout the mixture. Their long roots are working for us, improving the soil structure by breaking up compaction.