Fall CSA 2014, Week 5!!!

That's this week's lettuce mix, the last of lettuce I'll be eating until late March, early April.  Boo!!!

In this week's share:

salad mix

arugula

senposai! Quickly becoming my favorite green.  Here's a killer recipe!

parsley

delicata squash

carrots!  Remember those baby carrots from many weeks ago--this is what they've become!!!!

potatoes

apples

tomatoes!  Lots of ripening ones; lots of green ones (unripe) for frying or tomato pie making or pickling or...--the last of the tomatoes for 2014... What to do with green tomatoes

At the farm stand: a few spaghetti squash, last of the sweet potatoes, Bosc pears, Honeycrisp Apples
 

Autumn CSA Week 4

Temperatures were forecast to fall near 30 or below Sunday night, so I frantically covered some crops, picked any ripening tomatoes, and harvested all the lettuce.  All of it!  Which means you get 2 bags (4 heads) this week!  Next week will be the last of the salad mix, and then you'll have to wait until April, 2015 for real lettuce!

We did have a hard frost Sunday night--tomatoes gone, beans gone, my nearly ripening ground cherries gone, basil gone, etc.  Still plenty of hardy greens and root crops left.

In this week's share:

2 bags of lettuce
arugula
cilantro
turnips (big ones!)  Big turnips make a great soup!
last of the peppers
delicata squash
tomatoes
apples

At the stand: some more of the pork shoulder (sold out fast last week!), last order of butter for the year, cider, juice, sweet potatoes(don't grow much of this because it needs such a long, long season, but what I have is very nice), and organic ginger from the Fingerlakes.  Eggs are back in stock--mine have slowed way down, and the other flocks I rely on are in the middle of molting, so they hardly lay.

Eat well!

Autumn CSA Week 3

Carnivore alert:  last call for turkeys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Sizes are 10-12, 14-16, 18-20. 20+.  $5/lb.  No antibiotics, no hormones, pastured!



Pork shoulder and bacon at the stand!!!!!!!



Mid autumn and we just keep chugging along.

In this week's share:

Lettuce

Tomatoes (dwindling)

Arugula

Delicata Squash

Red Mizuna: Mizuna is a delicious and mild form of mustard greens, one of the world's healthiest foods!  Likely your kids won't eat it, so fix it for the adults in the family! 

Peppers--who'd of thunk it--they like this cooler weather!

Beets!!!! 2 lbs. of them!  Delicious!  Eat enough of them and you'll never need a colonoscopy!  Beets are great for you!

Apples--back in stock from Woodland Farms!

2014 Autumn CSA Week 2

Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all things you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a gate.

You cannot enter. But you're sure it's there.
Could we but look more clearly and wisely
We might discover somewhere in the garden
A strange new flower and an unnamed star.

Some people say we should not trust our eyes,
That there is nothing, just a seeming,
These are the ones who have no hope.
They think that the moment we turn away,
The world, behind our backs, ceases to exist,
As if snatched up by the hands of thieves.

Czeslaw Milosz

Frost outlook is good--possibly none for the next 2 weeks.  The abundance continues:

In this week's share:

Lettuce

Arugula

Spinach!

Yukon Gold potatoes

Tomatoes

Cherry Tomatoes

Summer/patty pan squash

Cilantro

Quince!  How to Cook Quince

Enjoy! 

2014 Autumn CSA Week 1

We segue from a perfect summer into a mild and lovely autumn, with weather ideal for what we  grow.  Lettuce finally returns after we lost our final summer crop to the deer.

This is a very heavy share this week; please remember it as we pass through to late fall, when hard frosts may reduce us to only root crops...

Tomatoes continue, and likely will for next week...don't know about thereafter.

In this week's share:

Cilantro!!! Yes, I know some have some sort of oral bio-chemical reaction to it, but for the rest of us: Cilantro recipes   Also, cilantro pesto is a 3 meals a day staple in our house right now.

Pea Shoots!  Peashoot info! For newcomers, this is a staple of our shares.

Head of lettuce

Arugula

Bok Choy--fantastic crop!   Bok Choy recipes

1/2 lb green or yellow beans

1 3/4 lb. tomatoes

1 pint cherry tomatoes

1 pepper--last of the crop pretty much...better luck next year!

box of Seckel Pears or 3 apples

Enjoy!!!!!