6th Week of the Fall CSA Season: Week of November 19th

Nov 15

*Late fall is a good time to mulch fields with straw, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: green curly kale, rainbow chard, caraflex cabbage, green cabbage, bok choi, baby lettuce, spinach, brussels sprouts, brussels crowns
Roots: red beets, yellow beets, carrots, watermelon radish, red potatoes, yellow potatoes, French fingerling potato, sweet potato fingerlings*, daikon radish, Gilfeather turnip, rutabaga, parsnip
Alliums: garlic, yellow onions, red onions, shallots, leeks
Herbs: cilantro, parsley
Miscellaneous: fennel

* These sweet potato fingerlings are small and skinny. They are lovely to roast as is to make chunky fries, or to chop into small pieces for roasting. However, they will disappoint you if you are hoping for a large sweet potato. These tubers are about finger size.

Click here to order your veggies for a delivered bag to Ludlow or Rutland

*Thanks for another season, barrel washer, photo by Adam Ford*

*Winter for a day or two, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

This week we were surprised to get the four inches of snow that came on Tuesday, and as time went on I was reminded once again that snow on the ground in November rarely lasts long. Before the snow came we harvested all of our storage cabbage and brussels sprouts, leaving the leeks to be the final storage crop still in the ground. Katie seeded a wide variety of cold hardy greens outdoors, to germinate early next spring. I’m looking forward to seeing what may become of that experiment. And at the end of the week, we spread several round bales of rye straw over some of our ridged fields. These fields will rest over the winter and the straw will settle under the snow. Next spring or summer, we will rake the straw from the ridgetops into the valleys and will have a nicely mulched field to seed or transplant into.

Have a great week,

-ESF Team: Kara, Ryan, K2, Cindy, Taylor, Leah, Natalie, Katie, Galen, Vanessa, Georgia, Amelia, Kristina, and Hannah (and Sky and Soraya)

Beet Risotto

I just used this recipe recently, and it’s a winner for sure. My adjustment to it was adding 3 crushed garlic cloves to the onions as they sauteed, and then adding one more crushed garlic clove at the end when I mixed in the cheese. (I like garlic.)