What’s in the Box: Acorn squash, lettuce mix, carrots, purple glazer garlic, yellow storage onion, red storage onion, green pepper, assorted sweet peppers, serrano chile pepper, white icicle radish, dragon’s tongue beans, green romano beans, broccoli raab, and slicing tomatoes.
What’s going on at the farm: Lots of new crops to enjoy as the bounty continues this week on the farm. We are bringing on more variety then ever this week and had to pick and choose what was going in the share among many items which are ready so there may be more added if we have time to add any other roots, greens, etc…. Time is really the issue there as 14 items a week keeps us hustling from dawn until the second we have to leave for drop-offs. Acorn squash is new this week and if you have not had it it’s a nice flaky light yellow squash, I like to just split them in two after slicing off the stem and roast them face down in a glass pan with a little oil at 350 for about 40 minutes. Serve afterwards with butter, sugar, sea salt, etc…. They are also very good roasted with your root vegetables, peppers, onions, beans, garlic, carrots, etc… or as a side dish of course. Lots of good ingredients for some comfort food and other ideas include homemade chile, french onion soup with any stockpile of sweet onions, three bean salad, and of course plenty of greens for fresh salads this week too. Our fall carrots are in and just as beautiful and sweet as our spring crop. Broccoli raab is a new green for us this week and it is a leaf broccoli from the mustard family. Sweet and slightly mustardy in a very mild way these are best used as a sauté green to be lightly wilted with a little garlic and oil or used as a fresh bed of greens under fish/chicken etc… or use them in a stir fry or pasta dish. They are very versatile and easy to use just chopping them coarsely is enough to prepare them and basically treat it like spinach as far as prep and cook time. This Saturday is our 6th annual CSA farm dinner weekend so bring the family out along with a dish to pass and join us on the farm for what is my favorite weekend of the year. Its always great to talk and connect with the members who support our efforts here and for people to see the farm where all your veggies come from and meet some of the hard working people that bring them to you. I hope to see you there and you received an e-mail with details this week so please RSVP with the number in your group to that e-mail. Other things going on this week including spinach watering as it germinates out in the field. We also topped all our brussel sprouts to force them to make bigger sprouts this week. Also pulled and mowed a lot of weeds again, a seemingly endless task out here and always very challenging work. More mulch beds and drip line were pulled from the field and sadly the last of our hoop house tomatoes were cleaned up and greenhouses plowed and prepared for a late planting. Bean picking takes hours and hours and hours with many hands so that has been big chore lately and we have more types of beans coming in soon! The end of the season is looking very bountiful with a nice selection including many new items so hold on to your cookbooks and until next week enjoy the veggies!
