Bread through March!

Because we didn’t have a delivery from Hot Bread Kitchen in November as originally planned, Hot Bread Kitchen will do a replacement delivery for all HBK winter share-holders on Saturday, March 13th (which is also the last delivery for the frozen Winter Sun share). Eggs and regular veggies from Windflower Farm end on Saturday, February 20th.

Gearing up for winter

Our summer ‘09 season has officially ended. THANKS for another amazing season! No need to despair about an empty fridge though; we’re taking enrollments for the winter season! However, spots are limited and priority goes to current Stanton Street CSA members. If there are still unclaimed spots left in the upcoming winter share in a few weeks, we’ll open up enrollment to new members at that point. So if you’re a current member please email us to request a blank winter enrollment form, and if you’re not a current member let us know you’d like to be put on the waiting list. More info in the “Winter” and “Winter Share Details” pages of this website.

Distribution #14

VEGGIES
sweet corn
arugula
lettuce
fennel
onions
garlic
peppers (fryers or bells)
yellow wax beans
cherry tomatoes
medium tomatoes
sungold tomatoes

basil or cilantro to pot

FRUIT
bartlet pears

The latest from upstate

Here are some tidbits from Nancy & Alan of CSA Pastured Meat & Poultry:

The preparation for fall and winter has just about begun so it is really great that we finally have gotten our hay all done! We have about half our acreage baled in the white wrapped baleage, fermented like sauerkraut. The other half is dry round bales a good 4 feet tall and wide. We also have 5 other farms where we hay and with our old 1950’s tractors going at the full speed of 12 miles per hour, one of the farms takes about and hour to drive to and a bit more with a fully loaded hay wagon to come back. So right now we have bales all over and we’ll be driving back and forth between fields bringing hay home this week. Thankfully the last week of weather fully cooperated with the haying program (it can’t rain on the loose hay) and we got it all done nicely.

We are cleaning out the root cellar to begin stacking in potatoes, our braided onions and lots of bunches of great garlic! It is hard to believe the season has rolled around already and is starting to be dark very early and getting cooler every night. The wild apples are ripening everywhere, the pears in our yard and our neighbor’s yard too are falling from the trees and the fall raspberries are just luscious! Harvest time – it seems the only time it is not really busy around here is winter but you can make yourself busy then too!!

What Thursday will hold

This week’s share is looking like it will include assorted tomatoes, leaf lettuce, cabbage, fennel (better start looking up recipes now!), cucumbers, onions, garlic, beets, a selection of herbs, and either peppers or eggplants or squashes or broccoli.