Our CSA season is almost over! The last delivery will be the weekend before Thanksgiving.
We are continuing to collect orders for Dried Floral Wreaths:
We've now shifted gears to start on custom orders for dried floral wreaths and dried bouquets (which are pictured above and being offered as extras this week). Throughout the season we dry floral material that we turn into beautiful arrangements during the Fall and Winter. Each wreath is hand made, unique, and can be made to order to your preferences for color, style, etc. As each wreath takes an hour or more, we need time to create them and are now collecting orders for delivery on Nov. 15th, 19th, and 21st, depending on what day your pick up is. Interested? You can order one here: https://www.harvie.farm/signup/fifth-crow-farm.
Feel free to e-mail Teresa@fifthcrowfarm.com if you have any specific notes on what colors or style you'd like. I have many more pictures of wreaths we've made and if you like I can share an album for you to paruse :) If we don't get an e-mail then we'll give Leti (who's making the majority of the wreaths this year) free creative license. The wreaths below are all her creations.
NEXT SEASON: We will be starting to accept registrations for next season (2021) the week after Thanksgiving. We have decided not to do a Winter CSA this year, but we will start offering boxes week to week via our Farmstand starting after the New Year based on what we've got in the fields. Likely this will only be for pick up at our farmers' markets. If you signed up for auto-renew, expect to get an e-mail soon double checking that you do indeed want to auto-renew. The auto-renew process with also happen the week after Thanksgiving. We will also be sending info on how to sign up for the Farmstand so you get notifications this Winter when product is available.
This week's apples:
Belle de Boskoop: Gold with a red blush, medium to heavily russeted. Creamy white dense flesh with a crisp texture. Layers of flavor. Tart, dry and highly aromatic mellows and sweetens with storage. Gets soft with cooking. Tend to be quite large.
Enterprise: Dark red skin, firm white flesh, great for cooking. Sweet, spicy, with mild tartness.
Hokuto: From Japan, these very large, juicy, sweet, crisp apples are famous for their size- in 2005 a Hokuto claimed the World's record for heaviest apple.
Mutsu- sweet, dense fleshed big apples. Green to yellow skin which many of you are likely already familiar with. Great keeper whose flavor will continue to improve with storage. LARGE- just like it's offspring the Hokuto, these apples tend towards enormous. I cut up one and it fed our family over 2 lunches.
