Welcome to week 18!
We hope that for those that explored the seasonality of
our local fruit enjoyed the journey! From strawberries to apples and all those
mighty flavors in between of raspberries, blueberries, all those lovely and flavorful
grapes, peaches, pears, watermelon and cantaloupes.
Thank you to all of you who supported local fruit, these farms will keep growing because of you!
Hope to see you in 2013.
our local fruit enjoyed the journey! From strawberries to apples and all those
mighty flavors in between of raspberries, blueberries, all those lovely and flavorful
grapes, peaches, pears, watermelon and cantaloupes.
Thank you to all of you who supported local fruit, these farms will keep growing because of you!
Hope to see you in 2013.
We have two more weeks for vegetable shares!
Your vegetable harvest this week...........
fresh parsley
orange carrots
arugula
swiss chard
savoy cabbage
lettuce mix
celery
daikon radish
spinach
Your fruit harvest this week................last week
Unfortunately Mick Klug wasn't able to share with us a bounty of his antique apples this season because of the April frost. In my experience no two years have ever been the same in farming! I'm sure next season we'll be able to enjoy those antique apples once again, until then enjoy the bounty one last time from Mick!
Ida Red Apples
Gala Apples
Honey Crisp Apples
Golden Delicious
*We do have Mick's Apple Cider available to taste and purchase out our farm stand!
The farm in your kitchen recipes
and other pictures of the week...............
and other pictures of the week...............
Hearty Swiss Chard stands firm among the cold wind and is delicious
with a big bowl of warm spaghetti! Recipe here!
Here is one of the perks about being a CSA member!
You'll always discover something in your harvest of 20 weeks that
you're unfamiliar with or a vegetable that you've enjoyed in a restaurant and never
thought that it would ever land on your kitchen counter for you to do something with,
Daikon Radish is here!
Bold in it's size, Daikon is crispy, juicy and has some spice to it!
I often like to marry it's flavor with carrots in a roast.
Here are more ideas for you to try, Recipe here.
Seriously my favorite of all cabbages out there! It's crinkly textured leaves and deep flavors
hold well in soup, stir fry or a simple boil.
So many recipes!
this cabbage (and carrots) will store well in your fridge, wrapped in plastic if you want to wait for our pork! to try this recipe..........roast pork with cabbage and carrots
Enjoy!
Chris rolling seeded cover crop on new fields that should be ready to grow on by 2014!
Where once grew our jungle of tomatoes........spinach will soon fill this hoophouse.
Our farm stand at Logan Square in Chicago will be open only 3 more weeks!
Come out and join us on Sundays between 10 and 3pm
or visit our farm stand on the farm
17970 W. Millburn Road
this week we will be open
Thursday 4-7
Saturday 8-2
A few short hours on Tuesday afternoon and Duncan along with the rest of the crew had pulled
all the tomato plants out of the ground! Time to clear the tomato field, thank you to all those
tomatoes that gave us such great flavors this summer and to all the over ripe ones that the crew
threw at each other in the field!
Two or three broken forks and shovels later we'll be serving sweet potatoes to you next week!
It was a fun harvest!
Always smiling, Devin clears up the field by rolling up the floating
row covers. With the cold evenings the pests have finally left the farm, well almost.
When we're not farming the kids love to take the goats out for a walk.
Here we walked them over to the compost piles and had a great time
climbing up on a huge pile of wood chips.
Save the date! Thursday, October 18th!
Our pork sales will begin by 4pm.
We'll be able to offer your pork chops, shoulder roasts, spare ribs, breakfast sausage that will be made with our own sage! italian sausage that will be made with our own fresh garlic, parsley, dried oregano, thyme and fennel seed. Please remember that our bacon and ham won't be ready until the second week of November.
2013 CSA information will be available on October 18th. Paper forms will be at the farm stand
and will also be put in boxes that are delivered to our other locations.
Eat Well!
Your farmers,
Tania and Chris Cubberly along with our awesome crew, Tomas, Michelle, Danny, Joe, Keegan, Duncan and Devin
