Week 20; October 14, 2021

What’s in the box?

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carrots
hakuri turnips
radishes
beets
green onions
onions
salad mix
spinach
lettuce
black futsu squash

Notes on the box.

Notes on the box

Black Futsu Squash is a beautiful heirloom squash from Japan that we started growing several years ago. It is one of our favorites! It’s so beautiful and the flavor is really great, too. It can be roasted and stuffed, or it can be cut into half moon slices and roasted on a sheet pan. The skin is edible. It stores best out of the fridge and should last at least a month.

I tend to not peel beets when I roast them, especially not small ones. Remove the long tail, the top most part, then halve, quarter, or cut to smaller pieces and roast them! You can start with foil over the pan to kind of steam them first, then take off the foil to get the nice brown bits.


Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Garlic Dill Quark and Deneb, our aged gouda-style cheese. Try the Garlic Dill Quark as a veggie dip for the carrots or with roasted squash. It’s also really wonderful on crackers or on a bagel.

Recipes.

French Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese and Roasted Radishes - recipe calls for arugula, but you can use salad mix, chopped radish greens, and spinach. If you have a cheese share, you can try the quark in place of goat cheese.

Roasted Beets

French Carrot Salad

Carrot Ginger Soup

Tahini Sauce for Roasted Veggies - Goes great on roast squash, carrots, turnips, radishes, potatoes… anything!
Mix 4 tbsp tahini, 3 tbsp lemon juice, 1 small pressed/ minced garlic clove, 1/2 tsp salt, pepper. Thin to desired consistancy with water. Use as a drizzle on the veggies or make thicker for a dip.

On the Farm.

Some folks deliveries are wrapping up! If your box has the LAST BOX message on it and you feel that there’s an error (if you did schedule a hold and it didn’t go through) or any other mix-ups, please contact us! You do have the option of adding more deliveries! Go to your dashboard and click where it says “schedule more deliveries” and you have the option of getting boxes delivered for the remainder of the season. Let us know if you have any questions.

If you are interested in an herbal medicine winter wellness CSA delivery, check out what our friend and neighbor Nancy from Red Clover Herbal Apothecary has to offer. Her herbal shares are really nourishing and healing! Includes Elderberry Syrup, Winter Wellness Elixer, herbal throat spray, and more! Order from Nancy directly and your herbal CSA share will be delivered with your Turnip Rock CSA share.

Want to keep getting a veggie CSA all the way through December?? Our friends at Foxtail Farm have a Winter CSA! You can sign up for that option here. And you can get a Cosmic Wheel Creamery cheese share delivered with it! Local foods in the Upper Midwest during the winter! Keep it going!

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