Category Archives: Weekly CSA Newsletters

Meet this week’s vegetables: Cabbage — This week we have a classic winter share: cabbage, leeks, and storage crops. People who haven’t experienced seasonal eating often wonder what we eat in December and January, as though those are the challenging … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Dino kale rapini — Rapini season has arrived! From now until sometime in mid- to late spring, we will be enjoying these tender buds from all our various over-wintered green crops. Since many crops we grow … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Cabbage Brussels sprouts Butternut winter squash Turnips Celery root Carrots German butterball potatoes Leeks Well, our whirlwind trip to Breitenbush came and went. It’s amazing how much can be packed into a two day, two night … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Salad mix Broccoli or romanesco — “Broccoli in winter?” you might be asking. Yes! We’ve been experimenting with over-wintering broccoli, and this year the weather conditions were just right (i.e. mild and not too wet) to … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Brussels sprouts Savoy cabbage — “Savoy” refers to the crinkly shape of these cabbage leaves. Savoy cabbages are well suited to cooking in Asian style dishes because the leaf shape picks up sauces nicely. Stir fry … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Salad mix — If you’re new to the idea of winter salads, you’re in for a mind-blowing treat. Winter greens are a decidedly different entity than soft spring or crisp summer lettuces that are the mainstay … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Purple top turnips — We pulled these beautiful turnips out of the ground in anticipation of the flood’s arrival. They were ready to harvest and we were worried we’d lose them! Fortunately, the waters never reached … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s Mac veggies: Romanesco/turnips/radishes — Your choice between these various fun fall crops (all of which we’d hoped to have in larger quantities, but these things happen …). Castelfranco/palla rossa radicchio — These are both “chicories,” in the … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s Mac veggies: Salad mix Brussels sprouts Chard/kale Pie pumpkin/delicata/butternut squash Carrots Beets Potatoes Onions Every year, in the week of Thanksgiving, Casey and I start the most important work of the year — remembering all the joys … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s Mac veggies: Parsley — A couple weeks ago we gave our parsley along with a simple recipe for a pesto-like sauce called Gremolata or Persillade. Casey made some for lunch today, and we ate it with roasted … Continue reading →