What’s in the Box: Spicy salad/Braising mix, butternut squash, celeriac (celery root), yellow storage onion, red storage onion, white icicle radish, dragons tongue beans, broccoli raab, purple glazer garlic, green pepper, assorted sweet peppers, cayenne pepper, serrano pepper, and white hakurei salad turnips.
What’s going on at the farm: Harvest, harvest, harvest. Beautiful fall weather this week with warm temperatures and sun after several healthy days of rainfall is making for some solid growth for our late crops this week. We also have some more new crops for you including white salad turnips. These super sweet and tender turnips are not your average turnip and the tops are tender and similar to the broccoli raab are a good sauté green. You can use the turnips any way you like but some suggested uses would be sliced into salads, or cubed up and roasted with some of the other root crops. They are also excellent steamed and mashed or mixed with potatoes in a mash. Butternut squash, our fourth and final variety of squash is going out this week, these are so easy to prepare and so good just roasted face down in the oven at 350 for about an hour. Serve with butter and maple syrup or brown sugar. They also make an excellent creamy soup and pair well with red sweet peppers. More salad mix coming this week for fresh salads and raab for a sweet and mustardy sauté green which can be used in pasta dishes, soups, or stir fries, it is very versatile and the tender stems and leaves can be consumed just chop them coarsely to prepare. Our beans are still flowing in this week and we have more of the dragons tongue yellow beans for you this week. Peppers will be included as a random assortment including green and colored bell peppers and perhaps some sweet banana peppers and italian fryers. Only the small red cayenne peppers and little green chiles have heat all the others are sweet. Celery root or celeriac is a new crop this week and lends a sweet and tasty celery flavor to dishes. It can be roasted with root vegetables and is great in stews and soups. It can also be grated finely to use as a raw addition to things but really shines in roasts and stews/soups.
This week is filled with more clean up tasks and plenty of green beans to pick. Our new crop of beans is coming in strong and should make for plenty of regular fresh green beans for next weeks shares. Our brussel sprouts are slowly fattening up in the field after the rain and being topped several weeks ago and hopefully ready soon for the last couple weeks. Plenty of root crops yet to harvest as well with rutabaga, turnips, carrots, and beauty heart radishes fattening up in the field. Squash, onions and garlic are stocked up and ready for the last few weeks of the season too. It looks like a good close to the season over the next few weeks overall, enjoy your veggies all!
