Week 2; June 15, 2023
What’s in the box?
If this is your first delivery….
Just a little orientation for new members and reminder for returning members… please only take the box with YOUR NAME on the label. Can’t find your box and you are sure you are supposed to have one delivered that week? Text or Email us and we will work quickly to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it. Mix-ups sometimes happen on delivery and sometimes someone grabs the wrong box. In any case, we will do our absolute best to make it right. Boxes need to be picked up on Thursday! If you aren’t able to make it on thursday, you need to let your host know and see if they can make it available for you to pickup the next day, but there are no guarantees that your share will be there if not picked up on Thursday.
Cheese shares are kept all together at each drop site in a box with a freezer pack to keep cheese cool. The box will be labeled “cheese”. Please don’t grab the whole box! There’s a list of the people that ordered cheese shares in the box. DO NOT take a cheese share unless your name is on that list. After you get your cheese share, be sure to close the box to help keep things cool for other members. Shortcut… if you signed up for cheese every other week and aren’t sure if you have cheese to pickup that week, check the label on your CSA box. If you have cheese to pickup, your name label will say Cheese share. If no cheese, it won’t be listed on the label. If there was an error, let us know ASAP and we will do our best to make it right. If your name is on the list, but no cheese was in the box, let us know and we will make it up to you. Also, if you have any insulated liners you’d like to pass along to us, please do! You can leave them at the drop site and we will gladly pick them up and reuse them!
For everyone! We reuse the boxes! You may bring your box home and return it the next week when picking up your share, or you can bring a bag to transfer your produce into and leave the box at your drop site. Please flatten the box and stack neatly to help make things easier for the dropsite host.
notes on the box.
Salad season continues! This week with some lovely baby beets. You can remove the tops from the beets, halve or quarter the beet roots (no need to peel), coat with a little oil, sprinkle of salt, and roast them till tender. They are a lovely addition to salads!
Also included this week are some salad turnips. They are really tasty sliced or match-sticked and added to salads. They are also nice roasted or sauteed. The turnip greens are also edible. I like to saute them after cooking the turnips. Add greens once the turnips are tender and have caramelized a bit. They wilt very quickly and the roots and greens together make a really nice side dish.
Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese shares.
Fresh cheese curds! A great snack and a favorite for sure. If you let them get to room temp, they will have the squeak that only fresh cheese curds have!
This week I’ve sent another round of our farm original, Circle of the Sun. Admittedly, I hadn’t meant to send the same cheese two weeks in a row, but I think there’s enough people that are getting cheese every other week that will be getting it for the first time. Also, if you got Circle of the Sun last week, this week’s cheese is from a different batch, so you can compare the two! I hope no one minds. It’s one of my favorites, so I know I don’t have trouble eating it!
recipes.
Stir fried Beef with Turnips and Bok Choy
on the farm.
The smoke settled in on packing day. Our crew worked though it and we hope it clears out soon.
Irrigation has been being moved all over the place all the time trying to make sure that all the crops get the water that they need. We much prefer rain to irrigation (and the plants do, too.) But we are glad to have the irrigation that we need.
Exciting development on the farm… our on farm store will be opening! Hours are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 12-6. Our store will have produce, cheese, and meat from our farm as well as local honey, maple syrup, artisan bread, and SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM! That’s right! Cosmic Wheel Creamery is making softserve mix and we put a machine in the store. The ingredients of our softserve are whole milk from our 100% grass-fed cows, organic sugar, organic milk powder, and a little salt. We make plain (no vanilla even because the milk tastes so good that it doesn’t need anything extra. We are calling the plain flavor Cosmic Cream and we also have Astro-Coco. We are excited to have a space where people can come and stockup on great food from our farm and our near-by farm friends.
The last Sunday of each month, we are having Sunday Sundaes at the farm! Our farm store will be open and we will be serving seasonal Sundaes and soft serve cones and having an ice cream social! So mark your calendar! Our hope is that having a day to gather each month will allow for more of our CSA members to be able to make it out to the farm. We know if there’s only one event for the season it makes it challenging, so we hope you are able to connect with the land where your food is being grown and the people who are growing it!
Let us know if you have any questions!
next week.
lettuce
salad mix
broccolini?
carrots?
cucumbers?
rhubarb (sorry for my mistake last week thinking it was going to be in this weeks box!)
spinach
radishes
beets
garlic scapes?
green onions
dill