Winter CSA!!!!!

It is Winter CSA time. We are outside, all bundled in layers and chapstick and hats, digging carrots, covering greens and each hoping for our turn to weed in the high tunnel (which is nearly always warm). We bought a new 'bed lifter' bar attachment for the tractor that helps to dig the carrots out neat and smooth-- it means that we can leave the digging forks in the shed and harvest carrots a whole bed at a time. It is one of those nifty farmer inventions that makes our work just a little bit easier.
We are starting a little later in the morning- waiting for the frosty dew to melt off the plants- and the lowering of the light in the west in the late afternoon is driving us inside earlier. Everything and everyone is moving just a little bit slower as the colder weather settles in.
We still have some shares left in our Winter CSA.
We are working with other Trustees and local, organic and IPM farms and orchards to bring you a bulk share full of the tastiest foods New England has to offer. We are growing our first vegetables in our new high tunnel, so we are able to bring you fresh lettuces, chard and other tasty greens that we normally can't grow in the field in the darker, colder months of the year.


First Winter Share box (plans and harvests can change, but this is our best guesstimate of what will

be in the boxes):
Swiss chard
Salad mix
Kale
Salad turnips
Winter squashes (acorn & butternut)
Sweet potatoes (Powisset Farm, Dover)
Yellow potatoes (Appleton Farm, Ipswich)
Beets (Alprilla Farm, Essex)
Onions
Leeks
Carrots
Apples (IPM; courtesy of Brookdale Fruit Farm)
Sage & Parsley bunches
Celeriac (a root veg with an incredible nutty celery flavor- great roasted and mashed with potatoes)
Cabbage and/or Broccoli

Second Winter Share box:
Swiss chard
Lettuce
Greens mix (arugula, baby kales, cress, and more)
Salad turnips
Winter squashes (buttercup & acorn)
Sweet potatoes
Yellow potatoes
Beets
Leeks
Scallions
Daikon radish
Carrots
Apples (IPM; courtesy of Brookdale Fruit Farm)
Cabbage and/or Broccoli


Add in other items from the store! We have CRANBERRIES, quarts of maple syrup, tomato puree, pesto, and more. Look for an email giving you details soon about how to order extra items to pick up with your order (there will be some items in the farm-store, of course, but pre-order will guarantee that you get the amount you want!) and if you are a delivery customer- then you definitely want to pre-order so that it gets delivered to your pick-up site along with your box of veggies!
We are putting together a mini-cookbook of recipes that we like in the wintertime along with storage tips for helping your share last for as long it can. Have a great Fall and Winter! And signups are also open for Summer 2019 shares. Payment plans available! Spread the word far and wide friends.