Farm Message for Saturday, November 14, 2009

Star Hollow Farm News

For the week preceding Saturday, November 14, 2009

Hi folks,

Okay, I admit it—I'm whooped. I thought the season was over about a month ago when we got most of the potatoes out of the field. But it just keeps on going and going! I'm not sure there is an end in sight. Yesterday and today I washed and packed about 30 cases of potatoes for wholesale, nice because it was relatively warm and my hands weren't in freezing water. Also planted about half of our seed garlic—3600 German white hardneck cloves—our biggest and best from last season. But there are still about 1000 feet of potatoes to dig in ground that's too wet for the tractor, and 500 bulbs of Romanian Red garlic to “pop” and plant.

I want to go to a tropical beach somewhere and drink margaritas all afternoon... (but in reality there is also firewood to split and more potatoes to wash and tractor maintenance to get after, so the margaritas will just have to happen around the wood stove here in the living room on Saturday night!)

This week's planned produce: New or back-on-the-list items are underlined.

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Greens: arugula, bok choi, cabbage, dandelion, lettuce (bibb and red leaf), wildfire lettuce mix, kale (Lacinato and Russian Red), spinach, tat soi.
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Veggies: broccoli, carrots (orange and maroon), fennel, garlic, leeks, onions (cippolini and yellow), parsnips, potatoes (five or six kinds), Black Spanish radishes, shallots, sweet potatoes, tomatoes (red, yellow and grape cherry), winter squash (acorn, buttercup, butternut, delicata, kabocha)
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Herbs: basil, chives, cilantro, dill, parsley, peppermint, sage, rosemary, thyme
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Mushrooms: crimini, Gray Dove oyster, portabella, shiitake, white
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Tree fruit: bosc pears, apples (Fuji, Gala, Golden, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Stayman, York).
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Other items: the usual eggs, butter, cheeses and preserves. New this week are Sarah's Chow Chow and Tracey's apple sauce, plus wineberry and apricot jellies.

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On sale or reduced:
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5 pound bags of Rainbow Mixed potatoes
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10 pound boxes of winter squash seconds

Wanna know anything about winter squash? We found this site online, and it seems to do a good job of comparing and contrasting lots of different squashes. http://whatscookingamerica.net/squash.htm

Upcoming market schedule: We will be taking Thanksgiving weekend off—no CSA or online market or farm stand. Then there will be 3 Saturdays in December when we come down, before we take off for Christmas.

Winter schedule: We plan to switch over to coming down every other Saturday this coming winter. Our schedule will be posted starting in December.

CSA-Specific Information

Planned CSA produce for this week:

This week the plan is for Lacinato kale, an onion, sangre red potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, crimini mushrooms, yellow hothouse tomatoes, a few sprigs of parsley, bosc pear and Enterprise apple. Enjoy!

Adams Morgan CSA volunteers: Thanks to Kevin (two weeks in a row!) and Alix for their help handing out orders last Saturday. We appreciate the help.


Thanks for your support!

Randy, Chris and all at Star Hollow Farm

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