Week #19 Tuesday, Oct. 16th - Saturday, Oct. 20th , 2007 Downloadable Word .doc for printing

In your bag
Yellow Onions, Garlic
Winter Squash -Delicata
Pie Pumpkin, Kale
Potatoes Reds
Brussels sprouts
Carrots,
Sage, Thyme

This Week's Farm News & Recipes
Brussels Sprouts with Thyme and Bacon
I’d love for you to send us some of your favorite ways to cook Spring Hill veggies so that I can share them with other members.

Next Week’s Bag
Next week will be the final week for this season.
We’ll have onions, potatoes, garlic, winter squash, hopefully more Brussels sprouts, a cabbage, carrots and maybe some herbs.

Every Other Week Shares
If you receive a bag of vegetables every other week and are picking up a bag this week, today is your last weekly delivery. Thank you so much for your support this season. If we don’t see you at the Harvest Dinner on November 3rd , have a restful winter and we’ll be in touch in February.

Final Delivery
Next week will be the final Spring Hill delivery for this season. We’ll deliver those vegetables in plastic bags. Please gather up any Spring Hill cloth bags and bring them to your pick-up site.

Winter Delivery
Spring Hill’s winter delivery will be made the week before Thanksgiving. If you ordered a winter share, we’ll be in touch very soon with the details.

Spring Hill’s Harvest Dinner
Saturday evening, November 3rd,
St. Frances Cabrini Church
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Farm News
Wisconsin schools had last Thursday and Friday off. We took advantage of extra helping hands to get some work done. Normally we use those days to plant next year’s garlic. Unfortunately it’s still too muddy here to prepare the field. We keep checking the forecast hoping to see a string of sunny days – so far no such string. Instead we dug carrots, washed potatoes, moved tomato cages and got some other odds and ends done. It’s garden clean-up time. The irrigation pipes need to be put away, vegetables stored properly, equipment and supplies cleaned up and tucked away until next year. It feels good to get to this time in the season. It will feel even better to get the garlic in.

I’ve been reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life.” It is an account of the Kingsolver/Hopp family and their commitment to eating local for a year. They begin their venture just as the asparagus is coming in. The book chronicles their adventures of raising and preserving much of their own food. They raise turkeys, chickens, and vegetables, make cheese, can, freeze and dry loads of tomatoes. What I enjoyed about the book is her conveyance of food at the center of their lives; daily chores, family celebrations, Friday pizza nights and her deep appreciation for food as a connection to people and to the land. In discussing the book last weekend, one of our members said it changed her life. She spoke of how it’s changed her relationship with food and eating and how she’s really enjoying cooking for the first time. The book is a delightful read, peppered with essays by her husband and daughter as well as some of their family’s favorite recipes.

Next Week’s Harvesters
Tuesday, October 23rd - Helen Torrens, Beth Franzen, Gerrie Barosso, Joan deMeurisse
Saturday, October 27th – Su Skog & Conrad Sowder, Pat McKee & Doug Meisner,
Dottie Uhlman & Robert Winston, Lynn Cooper & Scott Lewis