November Journey CSA Share Week 1!

Welcome to Week 1 of your November Journey Share!
Nothin' scary about it, this share is packed with lots of good stuff.

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

  

• Yellow Carrots* ( Really good raw and great cooked)
• Green Savoy Cabbage*
• Spinach
• Scallions*
• Baby Red and Gold Beets*
• Celeriac/Celery Root* (4 good looking recipes)
• Baby Fennel Bulbs*
• Lettuce Mix
• Sweet Hakurei Salad Turnips* (without greens)
• Curly Green Kale*
  
  
  * = All these items shredded or julienned together could and would make a scarily delicious and frighteningly beautiful coleslaw.

Peter, Tomas, Jesus and Kyle looking pretty darn smiley.
There wasn't enough room in the 4 wheeler for one more thing so Kyle had to

carry the last bunch of Yellow Carrots in his hand.

 

 

Not so happy.
It just aint sweet pepper weather no more.
Our favorite Sweet, Italian Corno di Toro (horn of the bull) Peppers
can take some cool and maybe cold weather but a few frosts and they melt down into mush.
We picked and picked these guys and still they provide more. Truth is, near the end of

their season the peppers produced on the well picked plants start to get smaller and smaller and just don't reach their full size anyway. In the same way but different,(?!) tomatoes, when left on the vine till the cold weather comes, start to have an 'off'' flavor and though they may be plentiful, are really not that enjoyable to the taste buds.









 

Do you see the future?

These are some freshly made planting beds for Spring 2014.
We set aside just a few acres for planting into in early spring to get a jump

on the season. This makes the farmer feel much better in case of very extended wet spring weather.
The rest of our fields are planted with a winter rye and/or vetch or oat cover crop.