Fall Csa, Week 4

Nobody steps into the same river twice.
The same river is never the same
Because that is the nature of water.
Similarly your changing metabolism
Means that you are no longer you.
The cells die, and the precise
Configuration of the heavenly bodies
When she told you she loved you
Will not come again in this lifetime.

You will tell me that you have executed
A monument more lasting than bronze;
But even bronze is perishable.
Your best poem, you know the one I mean,
The very language in which the poem
Was written, and the idea of language,
All these things will pass away in time.

Derek Mahon

Indeed.

The God of Clement Weather continues to smile upon us, so we offer much green in this week's share:

Gator Chard

Salad mix with microgreens

Delicata squash

Carrots!!!  These are gnarly but sweet!!!!

Heads of Lettuce--some larger heads, some mixed baby heads

Woodland Farm apples

Spinach(just a bit), cutting celery, beans, cabbage, or purple top turnips

Head of garlic

It gets very dark very early!!!  Come on Friday if need be.

Fall CSA Week 3

"At the end of the lane from the rectory to the main road, there was a very large ash tree.  The leaves remained on it very late one autumn, and all yellow.  But one night in November it froze hard until, when morning came, everywhere was white.  There was no wind, but as the sun rose above the hill, the leaves began to thaw in its modest warmth and then fall.  For two hours or more it was as if a golden fountain were playing there, as the leaves fell to form a thick carpet covering the road."

R.S. Thomas

First frost this week, not serious enough to put a stop to anything we have growing.  The hoop houses are buttoned up, the lettuce greens are covered with protection, the beets, turnips, carrots and potatoes are safe below ground.  All greens will sweeten up with the cold, and the lettuces are the finest of the season.

In this week's share:

Red Russian Kale:  638 things to do with kale!!!!!  Also, for those new to the CSA, please find some time to watch this video:  What you eat makes a difference!

Head of lettuce

Salad/microgreens mix (assorted greens with kale, cress, and radish microgreens)

Delicata Squash--my all time favorite.  Keep it simple:  Roasted Delicata

Beets

Garlic Chives and/or regular chives--I harvested these late today and mixed most of them together--whatever!  They can be added to anything you might cook.

Head of garlic--nice to taste real garlic, isn't  it???

Apples

Eat well!!!!

 

Fall CSA Week 2

Oh, the lowly potato, so often the bane of the modern dieter, is greatly misunderstood.  Of all the vegetables we grow, it is the one a person could survive on the longest, with nothing else in the diet.  It is a true whole food, and when assisted by high quality fats--olive oil or grass fed cow butter--it is nearly perfect.  Potatoes are high in Vitamins C and B, and are rich in calcium, iron, phosphorus, and potassium.  Potatoes are not high in absolute protein, but rank very high on the biological value scale of protein--that is, the amount of nitrogen that is readily accessible to the human body.  It ranks just behind eggs!  The energy-rich carbohydrates of the potato are used slowly by the body, providing energy over a long period of time.

So eat your potatoes this week!!!

Also, I've noticed some people aren't fans of the microgreens.  They are the most vitamin-rich food you will ever eat!  Juice them!  Hold your nose and gulp them down!  Please!!!!

If you could eat a really yummy miracle food, why wouldn't you???

In this weeks share:

Salad mix with kale and radish microgreens
Beets or turnips
Chard
Potatoes
Peppers or cabbage
Head of garlic
Arugula
Apples

At the stand, the last off the beans, some carrots, some baby bok choy, squash.

Eat well!!!

Fall CSA Week 1

In Wales there are jewels

To gather, but with the eye

Only.  A hill lights up

Suddenly; a field trembles

With colour and goes out

In its turn; in one day

You can witness the extent

Of the spectrum and grow rich

With looking.  Have a care;

This wealth is for the few

And chosen.  Those who crowd

A small window dirty it

With their breathing, though sublime

And inexhaustible the view.

R.S. Thomas

Mid-autumn is unfolding gently, with ample sun and rain.  Farming is an inexact science, if science at all, and the last sowing of beans is always a crap-shoot where snake eyes is as likely as lucky 7.  We lucked out this year, and have lovely and tasty romano and dragon tongue beans to show for it in this week's share.

I'm not certain of the final contents, as we didn't finish harvesting before dark this evening, but it will include the following:

Romano or Dragon Tongue Beans

Cabbage--Napa or green or Bekana

Gator Swiss Chard--Here's 23 delicious recipes for chard

Beets--baby beets with leaves, or larger

French Sorrel--50 things to do with French Sorrel

Salad mix with microgreens!!!

yellow onions

5 apples

Also available will be radishes, peppers, kale, and arugula to choose from--I'll figure out the numbers in the morning and everything will be posted on the board.

We have some pastured ground beef, chicken, and bacon.

Leeks in limited supply.

See you tomorrow!

 

Last week of summer!!!!

Our yahoo mail account is completely buggy and I don't currently have access to my contact lists, so hopefully you're reading this...

In this week's share:

Potatoes, garlic, cabbage, arugula, garlic chives, apples and a choice of 2:

delicata squash
4 sweet peppers and 4 hot peppers
salad mix
dino kale
2 yellow onions
1 lb. turnips
bag of radishes


Thanks so much to everyone!!!!!! I'll see many of you in the fall!!!!!