Week 15
Summer 2018 CSA Newsletter
Week 15 Basket Ingredients
Italian Frying Peppers (not hot)
Small Bok Choi (joi choi)
French Radish (seriously good)
Japanese Lavender Eggplant
Small Red Seedless Watermelon
Tomatoes! (Of course)
Week 14 Summer CSA
Good Morning!
This week in the basket :
Sweet Corn
Cantaloupe
Graffiti Eggplant
Tomatoes
Spaghetti Squash
Carrots - New Crop Small and tender
Refrigerate these items:
Cantaloupe
Eggplant
Carrots
Sweet Corn
Leave on counter away from sun:
Spaghetti squash
Tomatoes
Pick - Up:
Pickup is on your normal pickup day this week.
Reminder! Call if you are running late, we can leave it behind the shop if after 6 pm. Gotta call BEFORE 6 though! 203.266.9149
Week 13 Summer CSA
IMPORTANT!
CSA THURSDAY & SATURDAY PICK-UP'S...
PICK UP WEDNESDAY 1-6pm THIS WEEK ONLY
Can't make it by 6? call and we'll leave your basket out behind the shop.
Store# AGAIN is 203.266.9149 just incase.
Thank you.
TUESDAY WILL PICKUP TUESDAY
Short and Sweet.
Let's try this on for size..
We'll be set up at the Bethlehem Fair this Friday - Sunday. Read Blog Post.
Fall Winter CSA... are you In? Sign Up Here (PayPal Users. 0% 6 month offer)
News: Farm is in the main harvest season; turning to Fall crops now as well.
Recipes are all on the blog and/or app: Check out The Farm Beet HERE
Hope to see many of you at the fair. We will have Harvest Card capability there too! CSA members still will receive 10% off at the fair too; mention your a CSA Summer 2018 member at checkout.
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Thanks for your support of our family farm and committing to eating healthy local produce as much as possible. :-)
~Mike
Let's Do This!
Thank you for your time shareholders.
Greetings!
Week 12?! do you believe it?
Summer is flying by. Children are headed back to school, and the daylight is fading. However, the heat will not give up! WOW! On our app (the link is also available on our website at the bottom page menus titled "The Farm Beet"; there you can also find the recipes.
It's now that we could use your continued support as we march forward to the Fall CSA program in a little under 7 week's away.
If you have already signed up for the fall/winter; thank you!
Pick up is at Woodbury Floral Designs- ON YOUR PICK UP DAY
Mike feels like a broken record....
15 Hollow Rd., Woodbury CT. If you can not make it in time to pick up, please notify us at 203.266.9149 BEFORE 6 PM of your pickup day.
We can NOT supply you a basket if you do not call before 6 pm the day that you are to pickup. That would mean we'd be harvesting your basket and giving to the food bank and then using produce again which was to be sold (like 2 csa shares for one person). This is unfair to the other CSA member's.
Your Farming Family - Thanks YOU
WOW THAT'S A LOT OF RAIN!
Not sure this rain will ever end. It is really hitting us now with certain crops like a field of sweet corn worth over $20,000 succumbing to the flooding. These things can not be stopped when dealing with mother nature. It sure does however hit your farm in the piggy bank, not to mention all that labor and wasted time in retrospect..but who knew!?
Luckily! We do have two more corn fields that will make it. Our goal is always to work around mother nature's obstacles. Your support is appreciated.
Farm Fresh News
Ok, Mother Nature! You can stop now!
Rain.
It's something I feel like we always complain about- we need more, we need less, whatever the situation may be.
Well... we have definitely have had enough, and the fields are starting to show it. Between root rot and soil erosion, too much rain also leaches away valuable nutrients that are in the soil and can make any bacterial and fungal bourne diseases spread like wildfire. Let's hope we get a little dry spell over the next week to start clearing up some of our concerns.
Farm Fresh News
It may be summer still, but we are deep into the planning stages of the Fall/Winter CSA program. Enjoying the summer session? Then let our family feed yours for the rest of the year!
Our fall/winter program begins immediately after the summer program ends.
Your support of our program is allowing our family to do BIG things this year. I can't quite tell you what that it yet... but it will be a game changer for our family farm and our community.
Click here to learn more about the program and reserve your spot!
Farm Fresh News
It's coming to that time of year where everything changes almost by the day. What was barely a flower blossom a couple days ago- has grown into little eggplant, a few of our colored bell peppers have already started to change color (they do this on the plant you know!) and our corn is just about ready as well! One of the downfalls about renting our land is that it is so spread out- we have fields in Woodbury, Watertown, Washington and Roxbury- that sometimes we can't check them all in one day AND do everything that needs to be done. This is why we can not always get our newsletters out to you on Mondays. We hope you can understand this and appreciate the fact that we do take the time to provide our members with this when can.
Did I mention corn above🌽☝? Yeah I did! If you've been lucky enough to grab some off the stand at some point over the last week, you know there's nothing like fresh corn. And it's almost to the point where Amanda & Mike can do a corn dance! It's gonna be sweet- really sweet- you know how we know this? Because unfortunately, the raccoons are great indicators and destroyers of sweet corn. They love it too. Let's hope they are nice enough to leave us some!
Welcome to week 6 of our 2018 Summer CSA Program!
Pick up is at Woodbury Floral Designs-
15 Hollow Rd., Woodbury CT. Pick up time is 1:00pm-6:00pm on Tuesday. If you can not make it in time to pick up, please notify us at 203.266.9149 so we can make other arrangements.
ALL baskets not picked up on your pick up day will be donated to the Woodbury Food Bank.
What's Kohlrabi??
Kohlrabi is a German turnip, with a taste similar to that of a borccoli stem, but sweeter. Kohlrabi can be cooked or eaten raw- great for coleslaw for your 4th of July gatherings, and is a good source of Vitamin C.
Farm Fresh News
Those high tunnel tomatoes have come a long way!
We used to talk a lot about high tunnels, then we thought we were boring you. Then we remembered we have all these new and awesome members, soooo let's talk about them again!
A high tunnel is a greenhouse-like covering over open soil- this allows us to plant directly into the ground. How is this different from Hot House Tomatoes? Hot House tomatoes are kept in regular greenhouse structures, where the plants themselves are planted into containers and cared for on benches. The benefits of a high tunnel allow us to get the best flavor in the tomato, since they are planted directly in the soil. We are also able to plant them earlier than in the field since the protective covering keeps the strong sun's heat inside and warms the soil.
Other issues, such as pollinators come into play when in an enclosed environment, but we have put our bumble bees to work on this task back in May to ensure fruit on the vine.
What's in the Basket!
Share for 3:
Green Lettuce
Broccoli
Mizuna
Bok Choy
Beets
Family Size:
Same, larger quantities
Fruit Shares:
Strawberries from Dzen's Berry Farm and local cherries
What's Mizuna??
Mizuna is a feathery and delicate salad green from Japan. It is often found in mesculin mix and has a slight peppery flavor, but not as spicy as arugula. It can be eaten raw, sauteed, used in soup, stir fried, steamed or boiled.
Care for this weeks ingredients:
Lettuce, Bok Choy & Mizuna: Wash or at least rinse with cold water upon returning home from your CSA pickup. Greens wit quickly after they have been cut from the field, a quick cold bath will help them become turgid again. Wrap in dishtowel or paper towels and store in the crisper section of your fridge.
Broccoli: Store in the crisper to up to a week
Beets: Remove the tops from the bottoms upon returning home so they don't draw moisture from the beets. The tops should be used within a couple of days- check the link for beet green recipes. Beet bottoms can last weeks in the crisper.
Care for this weeks ingredients:
Lettuce, Bok Choy & Swiss Chard: Wash or at least rinse with cold water upon returning home from your CSA pickup. Greens wit quickly after they have been cut from the field, a quick cold bath will help them become turgid again. Wrap in dishtowel or paper towels and store in the crisper section of your fridge. The entire stem (leaves and all) are used on the chard.
Broccoli: Store in the crisper to up to a week
Red Radish: Remove the tops from the bottoms upon returning home so they don't draw moisture from the radish. The tops can be eaten, although have a little prickly feel. Our rabbits and chickens love the tops too if it's not your thing.
Garlic Scapes: Can be left in the fridge for weeks.
The long wait is over- the first week of the Summer CSA has arrived! Find news, recipes and more inside.
Just wanted to send everyone a quick hello! We're so excited that the start of our CSA program and farmstand is almost here! A couple important things I would like everyone to do:
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We have been planning our Fall/Winter CSA for months now! We ALL know it's HOT outside, but farming is always a season or two ahead. We have to plan NOW for our storage crops, as well as what will be seeded in our high tunnel and greenhouses for our fall/winter members, this is why our registration ENDS in just a few weeks!
Registration is open until September 30th!"
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They will download in a PDF please check your "download" folder to retrieve them.
~Saving one tree at a time."
"How to care for your items this week:
The Farm's White Corn should be stored in the fridge, and (preferably) eaten the same day you bring it home. Corn quickly looses it's sugar content every day. Peppers should be kept in the crisper, as well as Eggplant- although please eat the eggplant before it gets "squishy". Both peppers can be stored in the crisper. The Rosemary should be either placed in a container of water or wrapped in a damp paper towel in the fridge. Do not store tomatoes in the fridge- but rather on the counter- and in the sun if they have not reached desired ripeness."
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Reserve Your Pork!
We are also taking orders for 1/2 and whole sides of pork! Our naturally fed Yorkshire pigs will be ready in early August, and all curing will be done naturally; without the use of nitrates or nitrites. "
We're Bringing out the Grill!
You just may be lucky enough when you pick up your CSA in the upcoming weeks to try some of our produce right off the grill- including one of our favorites- CORN!