I hope that you are ready for a great season of locally grown produce! This is our second Winter farm share season, and we are really excited about growing food for you and your family. Thank you so much for auto-renewing, signing up, and supporting our farm! So many of you have supported us through so many seasons of farm shares, so welcome back! To all of our new farm share members, I hope that you will enjoy your home kitchen being filled with tasty, fresh and healthy ingredients.
**** We added new pick up locations in Monroe and Ruston. If you auto-renewed, please see these options in case there is a new location more convenient for you.
This Week
This week, we will have a great selection of root crops, including the pink daikon radishes and salad turnips. Our salad mix is back with lettuce! Unfortunately, we only have enough lettuce for salad mixes, and the rest is for our retail customers. We have some plantings that are a few weeks away from harvest, and hopefully lettuce mix will be back soon. This will be the only week we can offer persimmons, so grab some! These are fuyu persimmons, THE BEST PERSIMMON!
I'm adding a few jams to the farm shares this week. If you would like access to our full jam offerings, please visit currentfarms.com to see what we have! We still have a few markets before Christmas, so I can't send upload every jam until after the New Year.
Next Week
We are really excited about offering baby carrots just in time for Christmas dinners! These will be baby orange carrots. Every frost from now until the end of the harvest, they will just taste sweeter and sweeter.
Farm Update
We have for sure been jammin' around here! I can't believe how much jam we made this year. For Christmas, I really hope that I get a bigger pot! (Please Santa make it a copper one!!). It's been a challenge since my mom broke her foot, and then rebroke it-because she was helping keep up with jam making all the time when we were busy during peak seasons. However, I have really enjoyed my time in the farm kitchen. It's been a fun way to be creative and fulfill my love of cooking good food that people enjoy.
I owe a lot of who I am to my time spent in 4-H. Not only did I participate in horticulture and leadership programs, but I loved entering the parish and regional cooking contests. I even performed cooking demonstrations for my contest at 4-H University for three summers. I started growing my own food in 2015, because I was disappointed with the quality of ingredients available in the stores, plus I lived an hour away from a good farmers market. In a big way, Current Farms was born out of my love for cooking good food with the best ingredients, and sharing it with the people I love.
If you need any last minute Christmas gifts, we will be out at the Thirsty Farmer vineyard on Calhoun from 12-6 today, at the Flying Tiger Farmers Market on Thursday evening, and the downtown West Monroe Christmas on the Alley Market on Dec 17!
I hope you enjoy your first week of the Winter farm shares!
Conrad Cable
