With snow now soundly layered on our one and a half acres of fields, we may now reflect on the progress of the Carleton Farm this past season. We continued to work closely with Bon Appetit, who purchases all of our produce. This entails trying to provide most closely what they specify is needed, and capitalize on what we are well poised to provide locally. For example, the chefs at Bon Appetit prefer that the Carleton Farm focus on growing specialty items like a variety of hot peppers, rather than on bulk items like potatoes and squash that can be easily and more efficiently obtained through larger growers. This means that our total poundage produced this year was down from last year, but we were able to charge more for some of these lighter and more expensive items. The total poundage sold to Bon Appetit lies at almost three thousand pounds, and our sales fall just shy of fifteen thousand dollars total. While Bon Appetit will remain the only place we sell to, we found some other outlets for surplus items that proved too abundant or too damaged. The Sustainability Interest House, as always is around to use “seconds” produce, and many of our green peppers were given out freely at the Sayles Student Center and used for a canning workshop along with excess tomatoes. Our staples still remain heirloom and cherry tomatoes, which account for a large portion of our sales, and we also produced eggplant, lettuce, squash, turnips, rutabaga, radish, and summer squash. This year we also tried Indian corn, in conjunction with beans and squash in our far field, okra, four varieties of pepper, and blue potatoes. We also stepped up microgreens and salad mix production for Reunion, per request. Perhaps our biggest challenge this year was dealing with record-setting late spring, which made it difficult to get anything in the wet ground until very late. During the off season, when weeds halt their merciless advance, the volunteers and interns of the Carleton Farm ponder what direction to take the operation in, churning these ideas about like tiller blades in sandy soil. The Carleton Farm is still very much in its soul-searching adolescent years, but has proved itself a relatively consistent raiser of produce. Now that the farm has demonstrated economic feasibility, we are left to think further about how we plan to continue the farm, what it can grow into that will most benefit the Carleton community.