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Winter CSA shares - who's got one?
My first pickup is Friday and I'm so excited to be able to eat locally in the dead of winter. Here's the note from the farm (Red Fire Farm in Danby, MA):
"We are getting ready for the first ever Deep Winter CSA distribution! Please see the side bar with This Week's Harvest for the contents of the share:
Winter Produce:
Carrots
Turnips
Sweet Potatoes
Onions
Lettuce
Spinach or Salad Mix
Baby Bok Choy
Local Products:
Apple Cider from Clarkdale Orchard
Sauerkraut from Real Pickles
Clarkdale Orchards in Deerfield makes some amazing cider, which they mainly sell at their own stand, but we were able to convince Ben to hook us up with some for the shares this week. They press the cider from their own apples and light-treat it which preserves the flavor better than pasteurization.
We work with Real Pickles throughout the season. Every year we provide them with cabbage, carrots, tomatillos, leeks, and other ingredients for their raw lacto-fermented products. This week we're giving out their classic Sauerkraut. Having a little sauerkraut with meals, on top of salad, in sandwiches, gives your digestion a boost of beneficial bacteria. And is very tasty as well. Read more about how they make it on the web. Lacto-fermentation is a cool way to preserve some of the summer harvest.
The greens in our greenhouses are looking really beautiful right now. We're sending some out to you.
From storage, we're bringing out turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes and onions. Chop some of these up together and make a Root Bake! For winter recipes, please visit our Recipes page."
Whoo hoo! What's in your CSA share these days? What are you growing yourself?
Tags: csa, localvore, massachusetts, winter
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Permalink Reply by Cynthia R. on -
The shop I work at is a drop point for Tierra Miguel foundation's CSA and we got our first boxes of the winter season yesterday. It had:
yellow onions
green onions
yukon gold potatoes
carrots
parsley
cilantro
purple russian kale
green cabbage
rainbow chard
green chard
lettuce
purple kohlrabi
orange cauliflower
yellow grape tomatoes ( what a treat! its been a mild winter for sure)
at home I have lettuce, mesclun, joi choi, swiss chard, sugar snap peas and parsley going strong. My 'winter' tomatoes and thriving, but its been too cool for the tomatoes to ripen, so I picked most of the green ones to experiment making pickles, and now the plants are flowering again. Last frost date here is Jan 20th, so I planted some green beans last week, but its expected to rain cats and dogs next week ( a rare event here in southern California) so I'm thinking those beans may end up rotting and I'll have to replant, but thats ok, I'm happy to have the rain. :)
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Permalink Reply by michael on -
Johnson's Backyard Garden
They just celebrated their 5th year and are now the largest organic CSA in Texas. Great story about their beginnings here (literally a backyard garden):
http://www.jbgorganic.com/blog/2009/12/celebrating-our-5th-annivers...
Great food last week (YEAH ORANGES!!!):
Carrots - Big Bunches!
Tangerines! (Orange Blossom Farm)
Oranges (G and S Groves)
Grapefruit (G and S Groves)
Beets
Radishes
Mixed Lettuce
Bok Choy
Brussels Greens
Broccoli Florets
Green Garlic
Scallions
Dill
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Permalink Reply by michael on
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had to share:
michael said:Johnson's Backyard Garden
They just celebrated their 5th year and are now the largest organic CSA in Texas. Great story about their beginnings here (literally a backyard garden):
http://www.jbgorganic.com/blog/2009/12/celebrating-our-5th-annivers...
Great food last week (YEAH ORANGES!!!):
Carrots - Big Bunches!
Tangerines! (Orange Blossom Farm)
Oranges (G and S Groves)
Grapefruit (G and S Groves)
Beets
Radishes
Mixed Lettuce
Bok Choy
Brussels Greens
Broccoli Florets
Green Garlic
Scallions
Dill
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