Hello Associates,
Welcome to our new members beginning this week! We’re so comfortable to have you ever be a part of our fantastic CSA neighborhood. No the place else can you discover meals grown only for you, harvested contemporary from our fields and delivered straight to your neighborhood. We’re grateful to all of you for selecting us to be your farmer this season!
Our fields are filled with late-summer and early-fall crops, and we’re nonetheless within the midst of the annual winter squash harvest. Most varieties are finest saved for a couple of weeks to construct their sugars earlier than we embrace them within the CSA shares. This week’s delicata is my hands-down favourite: it bakes rapidly and is splendidly candy. Collards have additionally returned now that the climate has cooled, and they’re one other favourite of mine. Strive them sautéed with garlic alongside along with your breakfast eggs!
Bon appetit!
Maggie & Matt
P.S. We have quietly opened enrollment for our Thanksgiving CSA. (Separate from the common season.) Extra particulars to share quickly, however spots are restricted and also you’re welcome to enroll now if you would like to plan forward!
What’s in season this week?
Inexperienced Romaine
Crisp and reliable, romaine stays the most effective salad bases. Construct a hearty fall salad with roasted carrots and radicchio. Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container within the crisper drawer, the place it’s going to maintain for as much as every week.
Delicata Squash
The sweetest and my private favourite! It is also one of many best winter squashes there may be — the pores and skin is fully edible, so no peeling required. Halve, scoop out the seeds, and roast halves, reduce aspect down at 350°F till comfortable and caramelized on the edges, about 25 minutes. Storage: retains nicely at room temperature in a cool, dry spot for a couple of weeks.
Yellow/Purple Peppers
Candy and shiny, this planting seems so lovely! Roasted peppers are so scrumptious and it brings out the sweetness. A superb supply of vitamin C. Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container and use inside every week.
Salad Turnips
Do not let the identify idiot you — these are nothing just like the turnips of winter stews. Salad turnips are gentle, candy, and delicate sufficient to eat uncooked: slice skinny and eat with just a little salt and butter, French-style, or toss right into a salad for a peppery crunch. They’re additionally beautiful quick-roasted complete till simply tender. Do not discard the greens — sauté them like a gentle mustard inexperienced. A superb supply of vitamin C. Storage: take away the greens and refrigerate the turnips in an hermetic container for as much as every week.
Collards
Sturdy, deep-green collards are tremendous versatile. Slice into ribbons and braise with garlic and a splash of umeboshi vinegar for a fast aspect. Chop and add to vegetable soups for a vivid inexperienced shade and contemporary taste. The leaves additionally make glorious low-carb wraps. Wealthy in nutritional vitamins A, C, and Okay. Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container and use inside every week.
Carrots (Bagged)
Candy and crisp! They’re bagged this week as a substitute of bunched, because the greens look lower than lovely. This time of yr I like to roast them! Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container for as much as two weeks.
Eggplant
What a season for our eggplants! The vegetation are double their traditional measurement and so they’ve been producing wonderful yields. Slice into rounds, brush with olive oil, and roast or grill till comfortable and flippantly charred — end with the final of the basil and a squeeze of lemon. It is also fantastic roasted complete and mashed with tahini and garlic for a fast baba ganoush. Storage: maintain in an hermetic container within the fridge and use inside about 5 days; eggplant is delicate to chilly, so keep away from the coldest a part of the fridge.
Radicchio
A beautiful burst of burgundy seems lovely in a salad. Its nice bitterness pairs superbly with sweeter fall greens like carrots and peppers — tear it right into a salad with a honeyed French dressing, or halve and roast till the perimeters char and the bitterness mellows into one thing nutty. Wealthy in vitamin Okay and antioxidants. Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container and use inside every week.
Basil (The Final of the Season)
A bittersweet goodbye to the herb that outlined the summer season! One final meal of pesto and pasta is on our menu this week. Wealthy in vitamin Okay and antioxidants. Storage: deal with it like a bouquet — stems in a glass of water on the counter, out of direct solar for a day or two.
FRUIT SHARE
Gala Apples
For PAID fruit share members solely.
Storage: Within the fridge!
