Partial
Spinach - 6
oz
Pink
salad turnips - partial bundle
Red
beets - partial bundle
Winter
radish - 1
Butterhead
lettuce - 1
Eggplant - 1
small
Bell
Peppers - 2
**Acorn
squash - 1 small
**Delicata - 1
small
**Glacier
tomatoes - ¾ pint
**Onions- 1
**Garlic - 1
large
Full
Spinach - 8 oz
Pink salad turnips - bundle
Red beets - bundle
Winter radish - 2
Butterhead lettuce - 1
Eggplant - 1 medium
Bell Peppers - 3
**Acorn squash - 1 med
**Delicata - 1
**Glacier tomatoes - 1 pint
**Onions - 2
**Garlic - 1 super large
**these
items are non-refridgerated and should not be kept in your
refridgerator.
We
want to thank you all so much for being CSA members this year. We
are so thankful for each and every one of you. Overall 2016 was a
great growing year for us: An early warm up in the spring. A more
than average amount of rain. Not a single day above 90 degrees. A
long beautiful Autumn.
We
had many opportunities for learning this year. We
doubled from 25 to 50 families, and we found a great deal of grace
and ease with this transition. There
is always a lot of grace with farming, but sometimes we can be pretty
short on ease.
So, in addition to pleasant weather for working, we are also so
thankful for all of you, our CSA customers. Growing nourishing food
is an incredibly rewarding career; but even more so when growing for
such wonderful families!
We
loved all your positive
feedback this year, and appreciate how smoothly you helped pickups
go. We saw a sweet family bring their infant to CSA pickup as their
first family outing. A text from a mother of young children whose
son said,
after getting carrots in their share, “Mom
never EVER buy carrots from Costco again.” And so many of you who
share with us that opening your box each week is like opening a
present. We love knowing who we are growing for and it motivates us
to do the best job possible. We are so
thankful to be growing for you.
Next
year we will be (gulp) doubling the CSA again from 50 to 100
families. We are looking forward to the planning and necessary
upgrades to make that transition go
as smoothly
as
possible.
Now...what
are you going to do with your precious Very Last CSA Veggies?
Here
we go throwing in two different things in
the very last week of CSA :)
The
Pink
Salad Turnips
are a similar variety to the white salad turnips
we have included in the shares three times this year. They are great
sliced and eaten raw or also good lightly sauteed
or roasted.
The
Winter
Radishes are
wonderful very thinly sliced and eaten raw, they can also be added to
roasted root vegetables or sauteed.
This
week I'll be making a breakfast casserole with sauteed
onions, garlic, eggplant,
beet
greens,
and bell
peppers.
Something about those eggplant in casserole is just so good!
I've
also been loving the Delicata
roasted in half moons in the oven served
with
garlic mayo and plan on making that again.
One
of my most favorite salads is a simple spinach salad with boiled eggs
and winter
radishes
cut in half and sliced oh so thinly on top. They are just lovely
paired with the spinach.
There
are lots of great things in this share for having cut up and ready as
a raw veggie plate or to go with lunches; the salad
turnips,
winter
radishes, and bell peppers
are all beautiful chopped and served raw together. We will also be
making lettuce wraps with those beautiful butterhead
lettuce
leaves.
If
you eat up all your beautiful veggies you can stop by and see us at
the Kalispell
Farmers Market
FVCC
Parking Lot, 9-12:30, Saturdays,
Oct
8, Oct 13.
Fairgrounds
Expo Building, 9-2, Saturday,
Oct
22.
After
the 22nd
we have so many wonderful things to
plan
until we see you next spring.
Thank
you all again for a wonderful year! ~Jay
and Mandy
