For some members, this is the first week of Winter Farm Share - Welcome! You'll receive an email like this each Tuesday morning before you have a share scheduled to pick up later in the week. NOTE: Individual members' schedules may be different due to how every-other-week shares fall on the calendar, AND we are closed for Farm Shares from Dec 20 - Jan 3. Log in to www.Harvie.farm and click on "Deliveries" to see your specific schedule.
Review your "default" share contents below, and click "Swap Items" or "Customize" to make changes and/or additions. Reach out if you need assistance.
If you aren't a Farm Share member but subscribe to our digital Farm Stand notifications through Harvie, you're also receiving this email. You can place a digital Farm Stand order...click on through, and Thank You!
Three hoophouses that look like the photo below provide most of the greens that we will harvest throughout the winter:
Your options for vegetables during the beginning and end of this December through April season will be more diverse than the middle part (January through March). There are more roots and head lettuces available right now, for example. (Check out that beauty in the photo! That head was for our family - we don't breathe on lettuces that are for our customers.) January and February may allow us only greens, carrots, herbs, and microgreens to harvest. Time will reveal. Enjoy your options as they change through the season!
For the first time we are offering a vegetable that we did not grow: You can get Butternut Squash grown by our friends at Twin Oaks Farm in Louisa, Certified Organic, through your share here. They are an Organic seed and research farm and grew thousands of these Butternuts as part of their research to see how this variety grew in Organic conditions. Yet they aren't a market farm and thus had no way to sell the squash. We felt it was appropriate and beneficial for everyone to offer it to you here! Our favorite way to enjoy them is to peel, slice thinly, and roast on a greased baking sheet, single layer of squash slices, topped with sea salt. Here's what it looks like in our family kitchen before and after cooking (plus the way we like to set up a salad bar every night...this photo shows the last of our sweet peppers that we ate this past weekend):
Check out our Pinterest page of recipe ideas (organized by vegetable) for suggestions on how to prepare these goodies. And if you get stuck and need the simplest guidance, just remember that everything is delicious tossed in a pan with some fat (oil, butter, etc.) and salt.
Blessings on your meals, and KEEP ON masking up and washing your hands, plus staying home whenever possible ~
