What’s in the box?

pie pumpkins (medium and large shares)
red romaine lettuce (medium and large)
apples (medium and large)
cabbage (small shares)
beets
onions
garlic
potatoes
kale
carrots
radishes
thyme
brussels sprouts
spinach

Notes on the box.

Pie pumpkins, garlic, and onions should be stored in a cool dark place. Everything else should be stored in the fridge. The Kale is extra sweet and yummy for a long period of serious frost!
Feeling very glad to have hoop houses to grow beautiful lettuce, spinach, and radishes! Enjoy the veggies!

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Sending you off with my personal favorites, quark and Circle of the Sun.

Recipes.

Apple Spinach Salad
Potato Soup
Kale with Garlic and Lemon

On the Farm.

What an end to the season! Record cold temperatures and snow covered ground was not what we were expecting, but honestly we’ve learned to expect the unexpected when it comes to weather.
This year showed the vulnerabilities of the industrialized food system and proved how critical our local food system is. It also showed how far we have to go. We see record subsidies going to commodity crop farmers, but small family farms are still going under. We see workers (who are primarily black and brown and immigrant folks) in meat processing plants being forced to work even as the pandemic spreads quickly through their workplaces. But no significant change is happening to the structure of this food system. And truly, after the uprisings in Minneapolis when we were distributing food and saw just how many people were in need, I wished for the supermarkets full of cheap industrial food to be available again because so many in the community depend on it. What could a re-localized food system that includes and serves all of the community look like?
We appreciate all of you that are invested in supporting the local food system and we invite everyone to continue and to dedicate more of your food dollars if you are able to. As farmers, we are learning more about the origins of sustainable ag and cooperative movements, and who the credit for that belongs to. Not surprisingly there’s so much more to the story than we knew. We will be sharing more on this through a page on our website. In the meantime, we know we need more farmers. And we know that because of generational wealth and land access that hasn’t been available to black and brown farmers in America, we need to invest in farmers of color. We have been giving what we can to farmers in our area who are seeking land. We invite you to do the same if you are able. Here’s a couple of links for local farmers looking for land:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/blackland2020
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-black-aboriginals-return-to-nature
We are grateful to our incredible 2020 farm crew! Erika, Marcus, Mattie and Hannah made sure the farm was well tended, the cows were milked and moved to fresh pasture, pigs fed, and the veggies were harvested and packed with love and care. We couldn’t do it without them!
And a HUGE thank you to our hosts! They are the best at helping to keep track of everything and the best at helping to fix mix-ups. We love you!
We are also grateful to out 2020 members! I know everyone has been cooking at home a lot more and I hope the veggies (and cheese/ eggs/ meat) made delicious dishes that were enjoyed by your family and brought a some joy in this incredibly challenging year.
We are planning on offering home and drop site deliveries through the winter of cheese and storage veggies and hoop house veggies again this year. We will send out emails letting you know more about the delivery dates on those. If you are experiencing food insecurity or know of someone who is, please let us know and we will work to help ease the burden.
You will also be able to find us at Mill City Winter Market with cheese and Neighborhood Roots markets.
The final meat deliveries are scheduled for mid-November. More news on that coming to meat share members.
The CSA member management program that we’ve used over the last 5 years is being discontinued. We will be using a different program for next season. We plan on sending invitations to sign up for the 2021 season in February. Look out for that!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy and warm this Winter. Be well and thank you SO MUCH for letting us be your farmers!