Week #17 Sat, Oct. 3rd –Tues, Oct. 6th 2009
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In your bag
Onions, Garlic
Carrots, Beets
Kennebec Potatoes
Winter squash – Honey Bear
Cabbage, Kale
Roma tomatoes –the last!
Herbs, Italian Parsley

This Week's Recipe
Unstuffed Sweet and Sour Cabbage

Coming Soon
I promise the leeks next week! Potatoes too and some carrots. After that, I’m not sure. I know over the course of the next three weeks you’ll find some Brussels sprouts, parsnips, celeriac, kale and more beets.

Pumpkins
Our sincere thanks to our friend, neighbor and fellow CSA farmer, Kate Stout. Some of her squash and melon seedlings were hit by the late frosts in June. We had some extra so she took ours and our pumpkin seedlings which we didn’t have room for. Over the course of the season she turned those pumpkin seedlings into pumpkins. Beautiful ones! If you come to the Fall Work Day you’ll take one home. In the next week or two we’ll send in a pie pumpkin for everyone and our winter shares will have a pie pumpkin just in time for Thanksgiving!

Farm News
It was a very frosty morning here this past Wednesday. Our thermometer read 26 degrees. It was too cold for the Roma tomatoes to survive but you can thank last Tuesday’s crew for the tomatoes in your bag this week. They got here and immediately went to work harvesting tomatoes for the coming week. Thank you.

We’re having a tough time deciding what’s going in the bag this week. Our conversation this morning (and we have a variation of it every week) went something like this:
Patty- What are you thinking about for the bag?
Mike-Well, potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots and the Roma tomatoes for sure and some kind of winter squash. What kind of winter squash are we sending?
P-We were going to send the Butternuts but since we had to harvest the cabbage (the turkeys found them) I’m wondering if we should send the cabbage and the Honey Bears instead.
M- What about beets? How many weeks can we send beets. And, if we send the beets, maybe we should hold off on the leeks.
P-I think there’s 3 weeks worth of beets out there plus the winter share. If we send beets, that will make it the ”borscht” bag.
M- I think we may have lost the tops in the cold weather but we could send them without tops. If we go the beet route, maybe we want to wait on the arugula and radishes. It’s supposed to rain all day on Friday possibly Saturday too – they’d be a muddy mess. We could send kale. That’ll give the bag some “poof” on top.
P-Do you think the arugula and radishes will hold til next week?
And so it goes. Somewhere along the line, decisions are made, a bag is packed.

Next Week’s Harvesters
Saturday, October 10th - Janelle Waldock/Mike Maguire, Barb Ryan/Karen Ansbaugh, Merilee Light, Lynn Cibuzar/Mickey Moore, Amanda Douglas, Mike & Erin Merrigan
Tuesday, October 13th - Kathleen Sullivan, Polly Vollmar-Heywood/Phil Heywood,
Gail & Peter Sorensen, John Schmid, Mark Werley