There will be a delivery Oct 31st

The pumpkins you have gotten are very good eating and can be used in sweet or savory recipes - some of the full shares had mini pumpkins and those can be stuffed - also sweet or savory fillings - and baked.

The very colorful squash is a variety called Carnival and delicious.

Arugula is the bunched green in the half share boxes and turnip with its greens is the root veggie in the full shares

I'm glad to answer any questions  - please email and I'll get right back to you

There will be a delivery Oct 17th

There will be a delivery Oct 10th

there will be no delivery this weekend - Oct 3rd

There will be a delivery Sat Sept 26th

Enjoy your sharebox

Delivery Sept 19th

This CSA experience is a funny thing - It began as a movement to connect and educate city dwellers once again to the agricultural world that had been left behind in the last generations. Thousands of years of agricultural heritage are being threatened. That reconnection can't be reestablished fast enough right now.

I wish I could spend more time at education. It seems that when the season starts there are always many unexpected things that keep the vision of perfection from unfolding perfectly and the season becomes a whirlwind of stress and work, with a sigh of relief when it's over.

There is no more lettuce for now except maybe one head /sharebox. I know it sounds obviously simplistic but I can't go into the inventory room to pack boxes. We are farming within a living system, shaped by weather and seasonality. Lettuce that should have come in pleasant successions - to fill boxes a little at a time - came in a giant crescendo - all at once. And, if it hadn't been harvested and treated properly it would have been all been lost to one week's worth of extreme heat.

A reality check is the farmers market where I can share feedback with others and where I found that many market vendors lost their lettuce to that one week. Here at this farm, we have a large walk- in cooler and we were able to save much of what represented months of planning and care that went into the growing of it.

The "Mom thing" about "people are starving in India" so eat your spinach is sadly true. People are literally starving in places all around the globe, while here, we are fighting obesity. I believe we are a country that has the power to effect a change if only the people understand the underlying problems. I am literally betting the farm on it.

Generations before us used every bit of anything that could be raised or grown - no supermarkets, not much processing until Ball jars (which was a massive innovation) and no freezing. When apples were ripe, there was a plethora of apples. Apples didn't go to waste. They were eaten fresh, cooked into sauce, jelly, jam, butters, pies, juice, and cider - until apples looked like the lettuce might have looked to you.

The CSA experience is supposed to reconnect all of us to the actual processes of nature again. The real thing - so we can really make a difference. If that doesn't happen through this current wave of awareness - there are many activists who believe the world of cloning, high fructose corn syrup, radiated food and Gmo's will provide our food while real farmers grow too old or give up.

CSA is so much more than getting your veggies. With your support, the kind of farming that represents one of the last strongholds for the protection of a natural and healthy food system remains in place. If it sounds dramatic - well - it is. We are at a turning point in time and our efforts in this direction are very important.

So I say, good for me for struggling it out with integrity all these years and hoping for a time when a relationship like this is possible. Good for you for supporting an authentic and sincere effort to regain the right kind of agriculture. Let's salute ourselves, clink glasses, and drink our lettuce juice.

Farmer Renee

We will be delivering Saturday morning to your site. Please return your flatten box when you pick up. If you will be out of town and not able to pick up or not able to have someone pick up for you please email asap to lettuce know so our count will be correct. Thanks and have a great Independace Day.

This recipe is from Tara, one of our shareholders who is "raw food" eater.
She says it's really delicious!

The Kale smoothie recipe:
   2-3 leaves Kale
   1/2 a pineapple
   3-4 ice cubes
   2 frozen banana
Blend on high for about 1 minute.

If you don't have one of the super blenders (vitamix, healthmaster, blendtec)
Then - derib the kale, and blend the kale in about 2/3 cup of water till well blended, omit the ice, and add the pineapple and banana after the kale is well blended.

Works great with baby spinach, chard, we used the beet green recently.
Hope you try and like it! Cheers!