CSA located in Manhattan's Upper East Side
Veggies
Butternut winter squash-1
Cauliflower-1 head
Turnips-2
Lettuce-2 heads
Broccoli-1
Radish-1 bunch
Potatoes-2 pounds
Garlic-2 heads
Kohlrabi -1 bunch (fall planting — it’s sweet and delicious!)
Sage-1 bunch
Carrots-1 pound
Jalapenos (hot peppers) – help yourself!
Half shares — odd and even
Odd gets broccoli
Even gets butternut squash.
Fruit Share
One bag with Empire apples, Jonagold apples, Bosc pears
Mushroom Share
Shiitake
Dear CSA Member,
We are now into the last weeks of the CSA season. It has been unseasonably warm during the last week, and it felt more like early summer than fall. We will take the warm weather though. Picking and washing the root crops can be a really cold task when the weather is frosty.
This week you can expect carrots, potatoes, turnips, kohlrabi, broccoli, radishes, winter squash and the first garlic. We have been holding onto the garlic until the end of the season because it needed a chance to cure and we knew it would store into the last weeks of delivery. Over 1/3 of the garlic harvest has been divided into individual cloves for seed stock. We will be planting the garlic soon and members are invited to come and help. I will send out an e-mail when we get a bit closer to planting. We have had to wait a bit this year to plant the garlic because the weather has been so warm. We do not want to plant the garlic and have the cloves start to grow in the warmth. They need to settle in over the winter without sprouting.
Did you know that turnips can be eaten raw? Peel, cut into sticks and drizzle with olive oil. Give it a try! It was amazing to notice, as we were washing the heavy turnips, that they float. Did you know that turnips were originally the vegetable carved for Halloween? Some are so big that you might want to revive the custom this year.
This is also the last of the lettuce. We are expecting a frost this week and lettuce will not withstand the cold. It has been a treat to have such delicious late season salads. If you wash the lettuce well and spin dry in a salad spinner, the leaves will stay fresh.
I have posted a Stoneledge Farm crew photo on the farm Facebook page — you can see the wonderful, hardworking and committed group we had the privilege to work with this past season.
Enjoy the wonderful fall harvest.
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm
Veggies
Butternut winter squash-1
Turnips-2
Lettuce-2 heads
Broccoli-1
Radish-1 bunch
Potatoes-2 pounds
Garlic-2 heads
Kohlrabi -1 bunch (This is the fall planting of kohlrabi. They are sweet and delicious.)
Sage-1 bunch
Carrots-1 pound
Hot Peppers:Jalapenos-take if you like
Fruit Share
One bag with Empire apples, Jonagold apples, Bosc pears
Mushroom Share
Shiitake
Here’s Judi’s suggestions for cauliflower, turnips and potatoes. Never knew you can refer to large pieces of cauliflower as steaks.
Dear CSA Member
We are into the heart of the harvest. Each week the garden continues to provide and the vegetables seem to fill the cooler and the barn to overfilling. I am sure that you can appreciate the bounty as your bags are heavy with the harvest after picking up your share.
Purple Top Turnips with their Greens this week. The turnips were not seeded all that long ago, just before the Fall Farm Visit. They grow quickly in the cooler weather. The tops are a delicious green cooked separately from the turnip. Take the greens from the turnip and use them first. They are a bit like Mustard Greens. Some like to cook turnips with potatoes and mash them together.
Rosemary as the herb. It is one of the most difficult herbs to get to germinate but I have had good luck this spring in the greenhouse. The plants were really slow to grow for a long time but finally took and grew very well. If you do not use all of the Rosemary fresh, hang to dry and then store to use later. It is so fragrant and just delicious with potatoes.
There are Anjou Pears and Chardonnay Grapes available through the online Marketplace in bulk. Honey, Maple and Coffee are available through the Marketplace. Grade B syrup is almost gone and Grade A is running very low. If you are going to order Maple Syrup you should place your order soon.
Enjoy the bounty.
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm
Below is this week’s newsletter.