Fresh and Value-Added Items:
- Garlic 2 bulbs
- Carrots 2#
- Potatoes 3#: Basic Vegetable Soup
- Celery root: Still scared of this? Read this article
- Onions, red storage 1.5#
- Fresh Spinach 7oz
- Raspberry Jam
- Pickled beets, 1/2 pint
- Eggs-1 dozen
- Pickles 10 oz
- winter squash
FROZEN ITEMS:
- Vegetable Stock 1 Qt: water, onions, carrots, potatoes, celery, rosemary, sage, thyme, bay leaf, salt & pepper.
- 2 quarts soup (see farmers choice soups below), or your customized items
- Garden Vegetable Soup: Vegetable stock, tomatoes, green beans, potatoes, carrots, zucchini, leeks, kale, parsley, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper
- Citrus Summer Soup: Zucchini, water, cilantro, onions, tortillas, parsley, lime juice, mint, olive oil, hot peppers, salt
- Broccoli 1 Qt: Blanched and frozen broccoli
- Rhubarb 1 Qt: Rhubarb ginger compote
- Shredded Zucchini 1 Qt: Rhubarb and Zuchinni Ginger Bread
- Spaghetti sauce 1 Quart: wood fired tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, tomato paste, red wine, and spices
We were able to find an afternoon just before the deep freeze to get into the hoophouses and harvest spinach for this week’s share. The crop is snuggled inside the hoophouses under two sheets of inflated plastic, and another internal tunnel of plastic to help minimize cold weather damage to the plants. The spinach still freezes every night, but once it thaws during the day for a couple hours, we are able to harvest the larger leaves by hand. We leave the small leaves on the plant to generate energy for the plant and these small leaves will grow quicker once the light returns to longer lengths in February. We have a very nice looking crop of Giant Winter Spinach in the tunnel this year and we hope to be able to harvest some for each of the winter shares, as long as we can harvest during a time of thaw and sun a couple days before each week’s delivery.
Letters to all of our CSA members were sent out yesterday explaining changes to the CSA program for the 2016-17 season. In short, we will only be offering a fall and winter CSA this year. We hope this adjustment to our workload will help reduce stress and provide more time to do what we need to do better. Fresh vegetables will still be growing here during the summer seasons for the fall and winter CSA and for the pizza farm’s needs, so we will offer a produce stand on the farm limited to the hours of our pizza nights.
Sign-up for our fall and winter CSA seasons is now open. Making a $100 down payment reserves your share and the remaining amount due needs to be paid before the start of your selected season. The link to our sign up page is on our website under the CSA tab.
CUSTOMIZING WINTER CSA
I think most everyone knows this now, but I wanted to cover this option one last time. We do allow members to customize their soup selections or substitute the two soups for $15 worth of items from the winter CSA farm store. If a selection is not made, soups will be sent per the farmer’s choice. The store will close on Monday at 6pm the week of delivery. The link to the store is always on our website under the CSA dropbox. If you generate a balance due by choosing extra items from the Winter CSA store, I will send an invoice to you at the end of the winter CSA season. http://suncrestgardensfarm.com/csa/customize-winter-csa/
WINTER FROZEN WOOD FIRED PIZZAS
New this year, we are offering frozen par-baked pizzas which can be ordered ahead and delivered with your CSA share on a limited basis. You can order pizzas anytime based upon our winter menu by emailing or calling the farm. The next on-farm pick up date for winter pizzas is Feb 5. Pizzas orders can be picked up here, or delivered to the CSA site on Feb 17th. https://suncrestgardensfarm.com/pizza/winter-par-baked-pizzas/
Eat Well. Smile Often.
Your Farmer,
Heather