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Farmer’s Note — Week 13

Dear CSA Member

This coming Saturday is the Fall Farm Festival. I am including the information again this week and hope you will be able to attend.

This week is a Coffee Share week so please pick up your Coffee if you have a share. There are still Peaches, Tomatoes and Hot Peppers in bulk from the online CSA Marketplace.

The Fall Farm Festival is September 7, 2013 from 11:30-3. Please use the 145 Garcia Lane, Leeds, NY 12451 address. Come and meet your farmers, walk the fields where your vegetables are grown. Bring a dish to share and your own place setting. The farm will provide a barbecue, roast corn and portobello mushrooms, vegetarian chili, fresh fruit and coffee. Thank you to Paradise to Go, https://paradistogo.com/ for preparing the barbecue and chili.

There will be wagon rides, walks around the farm, freshly dug carrots to pick from the field to take home, help build a scarecrow, pick a bouquet of flowers. If you would like to take flowers home, please bring your own scissors and something that will keep the flowers until you get home. Wet paper towels or newspapers in a plastic bag will usually do the trick.

Other local farms and businesses will be in attendance and have products for sale.

Heather Ridge Farm www.Heather-ridge-farm.com or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heather-Ridge-Farm will have fiber items, socks from their own flock of Dorset & Icelandic sheep and llama wool, beeswax candles for sale. To view all of their products go to their website. If you are interested in placing a larger meat order, please contact Heather Ridge at
HeatherRidgeFarm@aol.com. Eat local. Stock up on meat and poultry by ordering from Heather Ridge Farm and pick up your order at the farm visit.

Gary Wiltbank Farm with his beautiful Shiitake and Oyster Mushrooms. Gary is an avid Mushroom Farmer and will be happy to answer all of your Mushroom questions.

Banana Moon Baking Company, Arlene Deahl, bananamoonbaking@gmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/BananaMoonBakingCompany. Specialty Cookies, Cakes and Pies. Arlene is a CSA member and imaginative baker. Her cookies are delicious. Can’t wait to try the Dark Chocolate Chipotle XXL Cookie!

We will have all of our Marketplace items for sale as well: Honey, Maple Syrup, Coffee by the pound. We also have Stoneledge Farm shirts that we all wear for sale. Long sleeved, short sleeved and no sleeved. Dave Cammer, Maple Producer will be in attendance to answer your Maple Syrup questions.

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to the farm. Hope to see you at the farm.

Enjoy the Vegetables
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

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What’s in the Bag — Week 12

Full Vegetable Share
Tomatoes-slicers-4
Tomatoes-plum-4
Sungold Cherry Tomatoes-1 basket
Peppers-2
Broccoli-1 head
Thyme-1 bunch
Cabbage-1 head. First of the fall planting of Cabbage.
Collards-1 bunch. So good.
Celery-1 head. The celery is not what you find on the grocery shelf. Our celery is very green, a bit on the tougher side but with a delicious flavor. Best used in cooking.
Shallots-4
Hot Peppers-Serrano-4 if you like. I have added info on the Recipe Section of the farm website about freezing and drying hot peppers.

Half Vegetable Share
Odd will get broccoli
Even will get cabbage and celery.

Fruit Share
Blackberries-no spray-1 basket
Peaches-1 bag
Red Clapp Pears-1 bag

Mushroom Share
Cremini

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Farmer’s Note — Week 12

Dear CSA Member

Tomatoes. If you can‘t use all of the tomatoes you receive with your CSA share they are easy to freeze. A number of years ago a CSA member told me about her freezing method for tomatoes. Before that time I had always blanched them, taken the skins off and then put them in freezer bags. She said that her mom would wash the tomatoes, cut the tomatoes in 1/2 or 1/4 and put them in freezer bags. When they were ready to use the tomatoes were thawed and the skins would slip right off. It really does work great.

There is a whole list of produce that we have available in bulk this week from the online Marketplace. We have tomatoes by the 25 pound box if there are members that would like to preserve for the wintertime. Hot Peppers, Genovese Basil from our farm. Peaches and Blackberries from neighboring orchard and farm. The Peaches are conventionally grown, the Blackberries are no spray but not Certified Organic.

Members asked to have the list of what will be in the upcoming share and also the bulk order produce available. I will post on the farm website Farm Blog a good guess of the upcoming Share and the list of the bulk produce. You can place a Marketplace order anytime during the week and your order will be delivered with the next CSA share delivery.

The Fall Farm Visit is coming fast. The visit is scheduled for September 7 from 11:30-3. Use the 145 Garcia Lane, Leeds, NY 12451 address. Please bring a dish to share and your own place setting. We will have a barbecue along with roast corn, portobello mushrooms and a Vegetarian Chili. Fresh fruit, water and coffee will also be available. We will have wagon rides around the fields, Scarecrow making, pick a bouquet of flowers and a bunch of carrots to take home. Our own Marketplace items will be available for purchase. There will be three other local farms and businesses at the visit: Heather Ridge Farm Contact Heather Ridge to place an order before the festival or pick up some of their fiber products, beeswax candles and other products at the festival. Info at https://heather-ridge-farm.com/ or www.facebook.com/pages/Heather-Ridge-Farm. Wiltbank Farm Gary Wiltbank with baskets of Shiitake and Oyster Mushrooms.
Banana Moon Baking Company https://www.facebook.com/BananaMoonBakingCompany with their delicious home made baked goods..

Hope to see you on the 7th at the Fall Farm Festival.
Enjoy the Vegetables
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

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What’s in the Bag — Week 11

Full Vegetable Share
Green Beans-1 pound
Red Wing Onions-2
Peppers: 1 Round of Hungary Pepper (flat, shamrock shape, heirloom), 1 Biscayne Pepper
Bright Lights Swiss Chard-1 bunch
Eggplant-1
Basil-1 bunch
Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes-1 basket
Serrano Hot Peppers-4 if you would like
Tomatoes-1 Sunkist Heirloom Slicer-yellow
Tomatoes-3 Slicers-red

Fruit Shares
Yellow Peaches – 1 bag
Donut Peaches – 1 bag

Mushroom Share
Oyster Mushrooms

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Farmer’s Note — Week 11

Dear CSA Member

Green Beans, Red Wing Onions, Bright Lights Swiss Chard, Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes. A rainbow of colors. The calendar says August but the temperature has felt more like late September. Wonderful summer vegetables still fill the shares.

There are 1/2 bushel boxes of Eggplant and also 25 pound boxes of Plum Tomatoes for purchase through the online CSA Marketplace again this week. The Plum Tomatoes have been picked a bit firm so you will need to let them ripen for a day or two. There are a limited number of boxes of each so if you would like to order for this week, please place your online order.

The Marketplace has proven to be a bit tricky to find on the website. I am working with the programmers to develop a quicker link but for now to access the Marketplace please follow the steps below:
Log into your account from the farm website homepage
Click on Marketplace on the upper menu bar
Click on 2013 in the box
Click again on Marketplace on the upper menu bar
Select the items you would like to order and complete the payment screens.

Farm Fall Festival September 7 11:30-3:00. More information on the farm website Farm Blog www.stoneledgefarmny.org and on the farm Face Book page https://www.facebook.com/StoneledgeFarm. Hope you can attend.

Enjoy the summer and the vegetables.
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

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Electronics Recycling Event — September 17

September 17 at Church of Heavenly Rest
11am – 7pm

Recycle

  • Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes)
  • Monitors
  • Printers, scanners, fax-machines, copiers
  • Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
  • Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
  • Tablets and E-readers
  • Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)
  • TVs, VCRs, DVRs, & DVD Players
  • Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers
  • Portable music players
  • Audio-visual equipment
  • Video-games
  • Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
  • Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)

To learn more go to
https://www.lesecologycenter.org/index.php/ewaste/ewastefaq.html

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What’s in the Bag — Week 10

Full Vegatable Share
Beets-1 bunch
Walla Walla Onions-2
Sweet Peppers-3
Red Russian Kale-1 bunch
Eggplant-Orient-2
Thai Basil-1 bunch
Tomatoes-4
Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes-1 basket
Leeks-1 bunch
Hot Peppers-4 if you would like them. When cutting hot peppers do not touch your face, eyes or other sensitive areas. They really are hot.

Half Vegatable Share
2 Bell Peppers-Even
1 Bell Pepper-Odd

Fruit Share
Donut Peaches-1 bag The Fruit Share is mainly Donut Peaches this week. Donut’s seem to be a favorite.
Peaches-1 bag

Mushrooms
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