Season Extension Week 2; October 19, 2017

What's in the box? 

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Carrots
Salad Turnips
Spinach
Parsley
Cabbage
Potatoes
Beets
Garlic
Onions
Sweet Peppers
Brussels Sprouts
Pie Pumpkin

Notes on the box.  

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.  

Garlic Dill Quark is wonderful on a roasted beet salad or dropped onto a potato and egg hash at the very end of cooking.  I know you got this pretty recently, but I also know it's a favorite and very easy to eat!  
The Aquilla is a jack style.  It's a good melter, but. I love it for cheese and crackers.  Make it a little fancy by serving with red onion fridge pickles.  Great snack!  

Recipes.  

Quick Pickled Onions

Roasted Hakurei Turnips with Israeli Couscous Salad - Make this yummy salad if you don't eat the turnips sliced, raw, and dipped in the quark.  

 

On the Farm

The colors are so beautiful out here and we have been enjoying cooler mornings and chilly fingers.  The Sunshine has been so nice, too.  The cooler weather means less weeds and has freed up a little time for us to take a step back and look up and out and enjoy the beauty of the area around us (finally!). We went on a nice family hike at a local park and had a fun birthday party for Otto who is now 7!  We hope you are enjoying the storage veggies and the weather and colors!  

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Season Extension Week 1 of 4; October 12, 2017

What's in the box?  

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Red peppers
Beets
Cilantro
Arugula
Spinach
Onions
Garlic
Carrots
Potatoes
Winter Squash - Acorn and Black Futsu
Brussels sprouts

Notes on the box.

Store Onions, Garlic, Winter Squash, and Potatoes out of the fridge.  Keep potatoes out of the light to avoid greening and sprouting.  
Everything else can go in the fridge.  Greens will keep longer in an open plastic bag in the crisper.  

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Feta goes well with the Spinach, Arugula, Beets, Red Peppers, and Winter Squash.  Actually it goes pretty well with just about anything!  Enjoy!  
The Deneb is nice and creamy, fruity, and milky. It's also an excellent melter and pretty mild.  Nice to top casseroles and on grilled cheeses.   

Recipes.

Fried Cauliflower Rice

Htipiti - Roasted Red Pepper and Feta Dip

Basic Cauliflower Fritters

Muhammara - Red Pepper and Walnut Spread

Warm Arugula and White Bean Salad

On the Farm.

We got that frost!  That means the greens are sweeter and more yummy than ever.  It also means the pepper plants are done for.  We will keep sending the brassicas and greens your way.  We are waiting on the Romaesco and hope it heads up in time for the last box.  In the mean time, enjoy the other delicious veggies! Especially the healthy helping of Brussels sprouts!  

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Week 18, October 5, 2017

What's in the box?  

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Potatoes (medium and large)
Carrots
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Garlic
Golden Beets (some medium and large)
Onions
Delicata Squash
Black Futsu Squash
Sweet Peppers (medium and large)
Cilantro
Spinach
Brussels sprouts

Notes on the Box.

This is the last box of our main season CSA!  If you have an Eat Like a Farmer or an Eat Like a Vegetarian Farmer Share or a season extension, you will get 4 more deliveries.  

Store onions, potatoes, garlic, and squash out of the fridge.  Everything else should be stored in your fridge.  
So glad to get these beautiful and tasty Brussels in the last box.  They aren't really frost sweetened as they often are at this time of year, but they are tasty enough that Sadie has been eating them raw as a snack.  I'm not going to suggest that for everyone to try, but I do think it's at least partially a testament to how yummy they are.  (Though it's also a testament to how much Sadie likes to eat). Our very favorite way to eat them is to cut the little stem nub off the end, cut the sprout in half top to bottom, and roast with a little olive oil and salt and pepper until they are tender.  We roast at 400 for about 30 to 40 min.  
The Black Futsu is my favorite squash to roast in half moons.  The skin is edible and the roasted squash has a nice chestnut kind of flavor.  It's also a good keeper and so beautiful, so you can keep it around as a festive fall decoration.  Be sure to wash off the squash before roasting since there's often dirt in the crevices and bumps.  

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Last delivery has two of my favorites.  Circle of the Sun from earlier this spring and our garlic dill quark. Try it as a veggie dip for those red peppers and carrots! Sorry about the ones without labels - computer troubles.  

Recipes.

Winter Panzanella from Smitten Kitchen

More soon!  

On the Farm. 

Thank you for joining us this season!  Josh wrote really nice reflection on the season and his gratitude for being able to be your CSA farmer.  Unfortunately we had a computer break down and it got lost.  I hope he's able to rewrite that after deliveries this evening and we can update the blog.  But here's the summary...  WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT OUR AMAZING CREW AND OUR AMAZING MEMBERS!  Thank you for supporting our small, local, Organic, and family run farm.  We are here to keep this piece of land healthy with soil full of life, carbon sequestering grasses, respected and loved animals, and nourishing and delicious food!  We are here to keep the countryside diverse and thriving.  To grow food with respect and reverence.  But we would not be here without our CSA members allowing us to be resilient.  We love you so much and are so grateful to be able to be your farmers.  

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