CSA Week Fifteen

News from the field:

We are pulling up pea trellises, planting cover crops to hold the soil over the winter, and making mental notes of jobs that come in the off season, like straightening out the work bench, fixing various pieces of machinery, and cleaning out the storage part of the barn.

Enjoy fall!

In the Basket:

Carrots, onion, garlic, hot pepper - I sampled some yummy spicy, carrot peanut soup the other day at the Hanover food coop. The recipe’s in the basket this week along with these ingredients.

Kale - Another recipe this week (on the back of the spicy carrot peanut soup recipe) - kale and soba noodles.

Mesclun - Our mesclun mix varies a little with the season, although the basic components stay the same: lettuce including oak leaf and romaine, arugula, baby kale, and two kinds of mustard greens.

Winter squash - This is the last week for Saturday pickup September CSAers. Thank you!! So this is our last chance to get some squash to those folks. We’re giving you lots figuring it will keep well for a few weeks. (Full season CSAers will likely get another installment in a few weeks.)

Tomatoes - Everyone seems to enjoy these so we’ll keep them (or sun golds) coming at least until frost.

Yellow beans - Another boon of the late frost. We gave you a big two pound bag of green beans last week, and we don’t want to over-bean you, so this week it’s just a small, half pound, bag.