CSA Newsletter ~ Week 20

Here we are at week 20 and the final week of the main season CSA.  Garlic planting has commenced at the farm with the thanks to several of our CSA members that have been out to help crack bulbs and plant cloves.  As of Tuesday afternoon we have 4800 cloves planted and we are aiming for 6000!

A huge "Thank You" from us both to all our CSA member families for your support this year.  We hope you have enjoyed the bounty of the last 20 weeks as much as we have growing it for you and your families.  Don't forget to fill out your CSA survey.  It should only take about 5 minutes to answer the 10 questions and we do appreciate all your feed back on the CSA this year.  

Thank you for allowing us to be the farmers that have fed your families this year and we look forward to doing it again next year.  

 

This weeks vegetable basket:
Potatoes - Kale and anchovy spuds
Kale
Onions
Leeks - Remember just slice them and freeze them for winter stews and soups
Chicken and leek stew
Garlic
Carrots
Celeriac - Cumin roast celeriac and parsnips
Escarole - This is the first time we have grown this and we are rather excited to be cooking with it this week! According to the Kitchen we should be dropping the lettuce and using escarole instead.
Escarole and Bacon
Instead of using sausage you could make some nice Berkshire pork meatballs! Italian sausage and escarole stew.
Escarole and bean soup
Martha Stewart escarole recipes.
Cabbage - The 10 best cabbage recipes.
Herbs - We have thyme again this week.  If you would like to dry it, place in a brown paper bag, once the leaves are dry store them in an airtight jar. Please remember in your survey to add any other herbs you would like to see us grow at the farm next year.

Kalettes - Yes they are odd looking but they taste great! We pinched the tops out of them this year which has created this huge amount of leaves to eat on the top and tiny little bumps on the bottom to pick off and eat.  You can eat these like Brussel sprouts, they are great in a stir fry, roasted with other vegetables, saute with garlic, onions and a little bacon. 
Swede - Nigel Slater's swede recipes
Roasted swede with Parmesan
Swede and coconut daal