Category Archives: Weekly CSA Newsletters

Meet this week’s vegetables: Concord grapes — These are from my parents’ yard — absolutely delicious (and ancient), unsprayed concord grapes! These have seeds, which I usually just spit out, but friends of ours in the wine industry insist on … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Celery — For the first time ever, we have grown celery! Of course, we can’t just grow normal celery. This is a more rugged, cutting type of celery. It does have a stalk, but it won’t … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Tomatoes Peppers Eggplant Cucumbers Carrots Broccoli Chard/collards Summer squash Red cipollini Basil We’re beginning our next season sign-ups a little earlier than normal this year. This is in large part because of the big expansion/transition to … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Tomatoes Peppers Eggplant Cucumbers Beets Carrots Chard/kale Summer squash Sweet onions A shorter newsletter this week, because we are in major recovery/transition mode after the birth of our daughter last Tuesday. Dorothy Raven (“Dottie”) was born … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Sweet corn Cucumbers Basil Tomatoes Lettuce mix Chard Carrots Potatoes Summer squash Cipollini onions As your farmers, we have the honor of intimate access to your food habits. Not only do we literally see which vegetables … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Cucumbers Tomatoes Green & romano beans Beets/chard Cut lettuce Carrots Summer squash Potatoes Torpedo onions Back when we first started this farming venture in 2006, the concept of a “harvest season” wasn’t completely relevant to our … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Cucumbers/eggplant/peppers — Some first samples of these summer crops! Basil Tomatoes — Just the very first of the tomatoes — we are so grateful to have them after the mishap in our first planting (a disease … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Beans — The beans are the harbinger of many good summer fruits to come! Finally, it is August summer! Cut lettuce — A mix of several lettuces, cut and rinsed. Broccoli/cucumbers/kohlrabi — Your choice between these … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Green & yellow beans — The beans are on! We grow two main types — your more familiar green “snap bean,” and a flat yellow bean. Both are suitable for fresh eating (that’s Rusty’s favorite) or … Continue reading →