CSA News from Windflower Farm
Delivery #22, Week of October 29th, 2018
This week marks the final CSA week of the season. We are ready for a break; perhaps you are, too! The farm is cleaned up and cover crops have been sown on all the bare ground. Let the cold come! Everything has been harvested, or will be within a day or two, winter share crops are tucked away, fall planting has been wrapped up, temporary greenhouses have been dismantled and bags are packed for trips south and west.
This week’s share. Sweet potatoes, kale, choy, your choice of spinach or lettuce, red and yellow onions, leeks, potatoes, scallions, celeriac (a bulbous root crop having the flavor of celery, and a flavorful addition to any root medley) and perhaps a little something else. I was once dressed as a celeriac for Halloween, wearing stuffed white leotards for the rootlets and bulb. I tell you this because Jan accompanied me in a chef’s outfit and served celeriac fritters that were the hit of the party. She cut them like fries, dipped them in batter, deep fried them (this may not be the healthiest of snacks) and served them in a light mustard sauce. Delicious!
CSA Survey. You’ll find a link to our annual survey here: https://windflowerfarm.wufoo.com/forms/r1wtll4j1r7po72/. Please take a few minutes to tell us what you think. We want to make sure we are growing the kinds of CSA shares you want.
What’s new at the farm? This week’s share is the last of the season. Before saying good bye, Jan, Nate and I would like to say thank you. Thanks very much to you for being a part of our CSA. We hope that your eating has been a little healthier and that you have enjoyed being more involved in your local community because of it. Your membership in our CSA provides good, meaningful employment for all of us on the farm, and it keeps the landscape in which we reside productive and healthy. Thanks to all of you for giving us the opportunity to pursue the craft we love.
We’d also like to thank the volunteers who make the CSA work – the women and men in your neighborhood who organize the CSA. They work on newsletters and recipes, member recruitment, site management and work-shift coordination. Without the hard work of this core group, our little farm might not be in business. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Finally, we would like to thank our employees. We easily have the best farm team in the Hudson Valley and we couldn’t do what we do without them. Please come back!
You’ll find a link to our winter share signup form below. The first winter share will be arriving on November 17th. We hope you’ll join us.
Warmly,
Ted, Jan, Nate and everyone at Windflower Farm
Our winter share sign-up is underway! Help keep the Windflower Farm team off the streets of Valley Falls – please sign up today for our winter share. The link is here: https://windflowerfarm.wufoo.com/forms/m1xr27rk05nzoa8/
The winter share consists of four monthly deliveries that will include approximately 2 lb. of organically grown greens (including spinach, kales, Swiss chard and other greens) and 8-10 lb. of storage vegetables (including carrots, red and yellow onions, winter squash, a variety of potatoes, beets, leeks, sweet potatoes, popcorn, black beans and more), along with 4-6 lb. of fruits, and either apple cider or homemade jam or local honey – all packed to fit in a returnable box. This year, some of the storage vegetables (including carrots and butternut squashes) will come from neighboring organic farms, but almost everything else will come from Windflower Farm.
What’s new? Less plastic packaging! There are too many plastic bags in the world and we fully intend to reduce the number we use in packaging your vegetables. We’ll pack loose where we can, and use paper bags where we need packaging. Our GOAL will be to use zero plastic bags, but, because we are not yet sure that we can, we’ll promise this: to use no more than one plastic bag per month. And we have found a reusable, recyclable, tape-free box to help reduce waste.
An optional EGG share from neighbors raising free-range hens is also available in the winter, as is a MAPLE share. Our four deliveries are timed to coincide with the deliveries made to your CSA pickup site by Lewis-Waite Farm (of CSA Extras) for one-stop shopping.
Delivery dates: November 17th, December 15th, January 12th and February 9th. Follow this link for pricing and site specific details: https://windflowerfarm.wufoo.com/forms/m1xr27rk05nzoa8/
We hope you’ll join us.
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