Monday, October 10, 2016

CSA Newsletter ~ Week 18

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that a small part of Strattons Farm may have been on your table over the weekend!
We did our annual Thanksgiving walk around our farm with Louie this year and got to take in the amazing Fall colours.
By the end of this week we will have sent out registration forms for the November CSA.  I am hoping that it will be a google document this year rather than a paper one but this will depend if I have time to create it.  This years November CSA will be smaller than last year so we thank everyone who registered their interest early.
The main news at the farm is that our Market Garden is now Certified Organic.  We thought it about time we walked the talk and got our certification.  I have to say a huge thank you to McFadden Acres who have been a huge support to me through this process.  We decided to do our certification as in Ontario you can say you are Organic without actually complying to the Canadian Organic Standards.  We felt it only right that we should go through the process (and make it official, even though we have followed the standards for many years) so that our CSA member families know that our Market Garden complies to these standards.

This weeks basket:
Kale
Leeks - Sizzle and spice leek and chickpeas
Carrots- We are doing bags of carrots again this week.
Onions
Garlic
Cabbage - Yes the savoy cabbage does look like an over grown brussel sprout! But we had enough of this type of cabbage for this weeks CSA.
Potatoes
Spinach
Chard - Chard and potato curry!
Turnips - This weeks turnips are Hakurei turnips.  These can be eaten raw or cooked.
Coriander
Greens - Coconut creamed greens.


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