Updates
CSA News Addition 9-26-22
CSA Farm Friends,
We hope you received the email that we sent to your email address yesterday. It was an update pertaining to these last two weeks of CSA. Please check your email addresses as well as your Spam and Junk files, just in case.
We listed what we plan to have in your CSA shares this week. In addition to what was listed in yesterday’s email, you will also get some purple hull peas this week. These have to be shelled – they are a wonderful addition to a cold salad or good as a side dish. To cook just chop about 4 slices bacon into segments and render until crispy in a nice deep pot. Once crispy take the bacon out and set aside. Add about a cup or so of Chicken broth to the drippings left from the bacon, salt and pepper to your liking. Bacon will be salty so consider this when seasoning. Cook on low heat with a lid until tender. Add a bit of water if more liquid is needed to finish cooking them tender.
Last delivery will be the week of Oct.4, 5 and 6th on your usual delivery day. Next week is the last week to use your Credit for a make up share. Let us know by Sunday evening if you want a make up share delivered on your last delivery day. Sunday night is the deadline for us to get everyone taken care of on the last delivery.
Until next week,
Judy. (check your email in box)
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Hello again farm friends,
After deliveries this week, we will only have two more CSA deliveries this season. This season has flown by quicker than most it seems. I love this time of year with all the changes taking place around us. The trees on the hills that surround our farm are beginning to change color, and the cool weather of the past week has been a real pleasure. Though we still have more summer heat hanging on, we’ve had a preview of autumn. .
Every year on our farms is different – and this year has been a hot and hard summer to raise food crops. We’ve faced heartache as well – a couple of our farm families suffered tragic family losses this summer. We lost one of our Amish farmers this summer due to a tragic farm accident, and one of our farmers lost his son suddenly to a brief but devastating illness. We hope the good times and memories of them, will bring comfort to both families now.
This farm could not exist if not for the incredible people who work here and on our partner farms. They help to make our farm’s CSA program possible. As one of our CSA members, you give purpose to each one of our farms and you support our farm with your purchase of a share of our harvests. We thank you so much.
”What’s in our share this week”? Green beans, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, zucchini, red Marconi sweet peppers, acorn squash and yippee- Delicata squash. Delicious cooked in both sweet and savory recipes. Oh, and by the way, you can eat the skin on the Delicata squash if you want. Google “Delicata squash recipes” for a multitude of delightful recipes for this equally delightful squash!
The Combo shares get fruit this week: Apples, and the variety is Mutsu Crispin.
Have a great week!
Judy
Newsletter September 12, 2022
Greetings CSA Friends!
This crisp cool weather is a harbinger of the weather we will have more of in the weeks to come. Personally I am loving it!
Goldenrod is bursting out in the fields in our area as we look forward to the Autumn equinox on September 22. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the full moon closest to the autumn equinox rises around sunset for several days in a row, and it provides farmers the extra light needed to harvest the last crops before the frost sets in. Farmers always make wise use of the daylight, even as our days get shorter, so we can harvest fresh veggies for you until season’s end. After this week, we will only have 3 more weeks of CSA.
Some summer crops are winding down now but some such as sweet peppers and winter squash are beautiful this time of year. The winter squash makes for hearty and healthy soups and even pie! Butternut squash soup is a delicious soup for this time of year, be sure to try it if you haven’t. Of course, fall always means it’s time for a new crop of Sweet potatoes. Our sweet potato farmer has the best ones of all in our opinion, consistently! They’re so full of healthy fiber and are just plain yummy!
“What’s in our shares this week”? Tomatoes, October beans, Zucchini, Cucumbers, Sweet peppers, (Marconi’s) Sweet potatoes, Spaghetti squash, Onions and – I hope I haven’t left anything out!
Here is a link that tells you how to cook October beans, aka Cranberry beans. First though, you have to shell them! https://oureverydaylife.com/how-to-cook-dry-black-beans-12504918.html
The Combo share gets Tomatoes this week- The Fruit Shares get Golden Delicious apples. These are great cooking apples. Think: Apple pie, Apple Crisp, Fried (Stewed Apples) Apple Butter.
Tip: Spaghetti Squash is great once it’s roasted by scraping it out of the skin with a fork and adding some melted butter with honey mixed in to taste. Just fold it into the squash to taste and serve hot. We love it this way.
We wish you a wonderful week!
Judy
Newsletter, September 6, 2022
Good morning!
For everyone who enjoyed the taste of those delicious blueberries in your share a few weeks ago, I thought you might enjoy reading a short article I recently read about a study about how supplementing the diet of middle age people with blueberries, may lower the risk of developing late-life dementia. Prior to this, studies have focused on much older people. Here is the link to the article written by Alison Bosman from Earth.com The research study was conducted at the University of Cincinnati by Dr. Robert Krikorian. https://www.earth.com/news/blueberries-may-protect-our-brains-against-dementia/
What’s in my CSA share this week? Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Onions, Summer squash, Okra, Spaghetti squash, Zucchini, Peppers, and new crop Sweet Potatoes! Didn’t have much Eggplant this week-but there may be enough for the Large shares since there are fewer of those.
The Fruit Share this week: “Jonna Gold” Apples. Just picked at the orchard! Combo Shares: “Jonna Gold” Apples
Fall of the year is upon us now as evidenced by the seasonal Winter squash and Sweet potatoes showing up in shares this week. Eating seasonally is what our CSA is all about! Eating the foods your body needs and craves to build up your immune system for the coming cooler weather is much easier in CSA. We hope you are enjoying your shares this season.
Since it’s Tuesday and the news is late, I’ll end right here this week. We hope you enjoyed your Labor Day holiday!
Until next week,
‘Judy
Newsletter, August 29, 2022
Greetings!
Has this summer flown by for you? It sure has for us. Hard to believe that Labor Day is upon us, school has started, and before long we will have this summer in our rear view mirrors. No more summer bar-b-cues, swim meets for the kiddos or summer sporting events. I am always sad to say goodbye to summer, though I do love autumn with its beautiful foliage and crisp cool weather.
Your CSA shares will soon begin to look different with fall and cooler season crops making their appearance.
In your shares this week you should have: Onions, Potatoes, Okra, Green Beans, Eggplant and Tomatoes. Combo share: Fruit (Peaches – nice size ones too!).
Since I mentioned Tomatoes, did you know there is a World Tomato Society on the web? I didn’t until today. Their website will tell you anything and everything you’d like to know about tomatoes! Their Twitter page states ” The World Tomato society is a global community committed to cultivating, discovering, sharing, educating, and preserving all things tomato.” When you have a chance, check out their webpage, it’s quite informative and interesting. Here is their website: http://www.worldtomatosociety.com
Here is a link to a recipe using the tomatoes in your share that I think you will enjoy. My mother always made Scalloped Tomatoes for us when I was growing up, and I love them to this day! They are a compliment to most any entree. The link is: https://food52.com/blog/4369-sarah-leah-chase-s-scalloped-tomatoes
Home Delivery members: Be sure to leave the cooler and ice block out to receive your share this week.
The Full Harvest Moon makes it’s appearance if its a clear evening on September 10, according to the old Farmers Almanac. The Almanac says that this winter may be a shivery, slushy one.
Until next week’s newsletter, have a safe week and enjoy the upcoming Holiday weekend!
Judy