Hello and welcome to week 3 of the Fall CSA season!
A note about the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday week. We will be doing double shares next week as our main distribution day is falls on Thanksgiving and people who are cooking may want their veggies before the week of the Thanksgiving begins. This means there will be no shares distributed ons 11/25 or 11/26. If you have questions or concerns, please reply to this email.
Another wet and rainy week coming up ahead, but we are enjoying the slower, darker days on the farm. Its breeding season with the sheep and we are already looking forward to lambing season in 5 months! In the field this week, we are cleaning out the last of the tomatoes/peppers/eggplants from the tunnels and seeding some of those spaces into a winter cover crop of peas. We are also finishing up the last of the overwintered onions with Dutch red shallots that we will harvest as "shallions" next spring!
Veggies of note this week:
Its cabbage season! This is my personal favorite vegetable. I love a crunchy cabbage salad with a tahini and preserved lemon dressing or roasting slabs of cabbage under a whole chicken. We have red, green, savoy, and napa cabbages available at this time.
Just another shout out to escarole! This rainy weather is the perfect time for classic white bean and escarole soup. This is a great version of this soup! I also can not recommend this escarole salad enough.
Our last round of bulb fennel is ready and looks amazing! Everything is edible, including the leaves. This fennel top pesto is delicious and makes you feel virtuous for using up veggie scraps that may have been destined for the compost.
