Today's harvest

This is the last CSA pick up for the 2011 season. Thank you for participating! We'll be sending you a survey soon, so you may comment on your experience of the CSA.

BAG RETURN: Please remember to bring your bags back. Also, we'd love to get back any bags that you take away this week, or any that you may have forgotten to return throughout the course of the summer.

FULL SHARES:

2 cups dry beans *

1-2 rods brussels sprouts**

1lb carrots

4 oz spicy mesclun

2-3 rutabaga

1-2 heads cabbage or lettuce mix

bunch leeks

cutting garden

SMALL SHARES:

1 cup dry beans*

rod brussels sprouts**

1 lb carrots

1-2 rutabaga

bunch collards

4 oz lettuce mix

cutting garden

*Dry beans include marfax, black turtle, or Vermont Cranberry.

**Just remove the buds from the stem, peel away any damaged layers, and the sprouts are good to go.

CUTTING GARDEN: There are still some dahlia and zinnia flowers, as well as many Mexican sage flowers. There are many herbs still available, especially parsley. You can still find good husk cherries.

today's harvest

FULL SHARES:

2-4 rutabaga*

bunch parsnip

bunch beets w/ greens

1-2 winter squash**

bunch collards

5 oz lettuce mix

cutting garden

SMALL SHARES:

1-2 rutabaga*

small bunch salad turnip

small bunch parsnip

bunch kale

6 oz chard mix

cutting garden

*Now and again you'll find a rutabaga that's hollow or even rotten in the middle. If this is the case w/ any you receive, please let us know and we'll replace it.

**Some of the butternut squash have discoloration on their skin that could go soft. This means they will not keep as long, so we'd recommend cooking it w/in the next week or so.

CUTTING GARDEN: Much of the cutting garden has been frosted, but you can still find a variety of herbs (the parsley is particularly nice) and some flowers. The Mexican sage (salvia Leucantha) has begun to bloom and is untouched by the frost. You can still find husk cherries that are ripe and undamaged by the frost, even though the plants are dying.

harvest postponed

Our CSA pick-up will have to be postponed this week until Wednesday the 12th due to illness. Many apologies for any inconvenience this causes.

today's harvest

BAG RETURN: Well done last week. Please remember to bring your bag back this week.

FULL SHARES:

6 oz arugula

big bunch sweet peppers*

bunch kale

bunch parsley

2-3 winter squash

2-5 eggplant*

head cabbage or bunch raab or hot wax peppers

bunch leeks

bunch chard

cutting garden

SMALL SHARES:

bunch parsnip

bunch parsley

big bunch sweet peppers*

3 oz arugula

bunch broccoli or chard

bunch leeks

cutting garden

*There is a threat of damaging temperatures on Wednesday night so we harvested the remaining peppers and eggplant. I've been making all manner of Italian and Mexican dishes w/ the peppers — stuffed peppers, omelets, tortilla soup, pasta sauce etc. I prefer to roast them first before putting them in a dish. If you wish to ripen them further, you can put the peppers in a paper bag (make sure they're dry) and let sit at room temperature — be sure to check them every day to make sure they don't rot.

CUTTING GARDEN: Because of the threat of damaging temps Wednesday night, we'd recommend visiting sometime before then to get flowers, herbs and husk cherries. We've removed the hot peppers to dry.