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Week 24 of 28 from Valley Flora!

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Week 24 of 28 from Valley Flora! Brussels sprouts! Butternuts!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' at the Farm...
  • Fall Faves: Brussels and Butternuts!
  • Tamales this Week
  • Farewell Dear Amelia!
 
Roberto rocks a new hairstyle: the strawberry blonde mullet, all the rage in Langlois...
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What's In Your Share This Week:*
  • Yellow Onions
  • Redleaf Lettuce
  • Carrots
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Yellow Potatoes
  • Tomatoes
  • Hakurei turnips
  • Butternut Squash
  • Green Pepper
  • Broccoli shoots
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Radishes
*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What might be in your share next week...
  • Shallots
  • Carrots
  • Red Cabbage
  • Lettuce
  • Celeriac
  • Tomatoes?
  • Asian Pears
  • Spaghetti squash
  • Parsnips
  • Cauliflower?
  • Mustard Greens?

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Fall Faves: Brussels and Butternuts!
When the Brussels sprouts hit the CSA share, it always feels like Dr. Seuss had a hand in the harvest. We give them out on the stalk, not a presentation that's all that common outside of farmers markets. This is our first dip into the Brussels sprouts patch and I confess I haven't even eaten any myself yet, but I'm banking on the fact that we've had some cold nights that hopefully sweetened them up enough to make you realize that Brussels sprouts actually ARE your favorite vegetable! For the sake of storage space in your fridge, I'd recommend snapping the sprouts off the stalk and keeping them in a plastic bag. They are truly like mini cabbages in that they'll store well for a long time. This recipe just came through my inbox this morning and it looks good enough that I might just have to march out into the field and log myself a stalk of B. sprouts for dinner tonight!

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Warm Honey Glaze

Snugged into the bottom of your tote this week are a couple Butternut squash as well: smooth, tan, sweet, and begging to become soup. I can't think of a single thing I don't love about butternuts: they are easy to peel, they have a tiny seed cavity (= solid meat inside), they taste great, and even if they do conjure up visions of soup, soup, soup, you can use them any old way you want: roasted, steamed, mashed, pie, you name it.
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Tamales this Week!
Remember to grab your tamale share from the marked blue cooler at your pickup site this week. Be sure to double check the tag so you don't take someone else's dinner home! Your final delivery of tamales for the season will go out the week of December 2nd, our last CSA week for 2019.
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Farewell Dear Amelia!
Last week we bid Amelia a teary goodbye as she took leave of the farm after three wonderful seasons together. She shared her bright, positive energy wholeheartedly with us and we're deeply grateful for her commitment to Valley Flora, for all her hard work on the farm, and for the beautiful flowers she coaxed from the field the past two seasons. She grew and learned an enormous amount in her three seasons here and we are excited to see where her farming adventure leads next up in the Portland area.
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November Farmstand Hours
 
Every Wednesday, Rain or Shine
10 am to 1 pm
(No more Saturdays until next June)

Fresh Produce
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags!

Directions to the Farm
For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:
 
Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.
 
Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients
 
Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.
 
Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.
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Week 23 of 28 from Valley Flora!

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Week 23 of 28 from Valley Flora! Apple Medley! Treviso Radicchio! Delicata!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' at the Farm...
  • Treviso, Apple Medley, Delicatas
  • Winter CSA Sign-Ups!
  • November Farmstand Hours
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What's In Your Share This Week:*
  • Leeks
  • Redleaf Lettuce
  • Carrots
  • Beets
  • Treviso Radicchio
  • Romanesco
  • Kale
  • Delicata Squash
  • Apples
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Radishes
*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What might be in your share next week...
  • Onions
  • Carrots
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Lettuce
  • Potatoes
  • Tomatoes?
  • Asian Pears
  • Turnips?
  • Butternut Squash

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Treviso, Apples, Delicatas!
In the spirit of practice-makes-perfect, you're getting another chicory this week so you can continue honing your radicchio skills. This time it's a Treviso-type: upright, dense, and the color of a nice red wine. I'm inspired to use it in this recipe I stumbled upon last week, using the end of a loaf of sourdough from Farmstead Bread in Myrtle Point. For any of you who have not yet gotten your hands on a loaf from Farmstead Bread, you must! They sell through Coos Head Food Co-op, the Port Orford Co-Op, at various farmers markets, and a handful of other places. I'm not a big sliced bread eater - it doesn't make me feel so great - but the slow-rise wild sourdough that Farmstead handcrafts is a completely different beast. My belly loves it, my tastebuds love it, and we are incredibly lucky to have an artisan bakery of such caliber in our rural community.

Apples are finally showing up in your share this week. It wasn't a gangbuster apple year for us and because we haven't had a huge harvest of any one variety it means you're getting a medley of some of our favorites this week: Liberty (smooth, matte-red with green skin), Sweet Sixteen (large, shiny red and green skin), and Topaz (waxier skin with red streaking over yellow). Our acre-and-a-half of orchard contains 285 trees and almost a 100 different varieties, not quite half of which are apples. Most of them are varieties you'll never find in a grocery store, and all of them are apples that we chose because we love their more complex flavor (i.e. there are no Red Delicious in our orchard :)....).

And finally in your tote, the belle of the winter squash ball, Delicata! It's the favorite for good reason: this is our sweetest squash and probably the easiest and most versatile to prepare. It'll be perfect in the treviso salad recipe above, but it also stands on its own halved into boats, baked and eaten with a little pool of melting butter inside.
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Winter CSA Sign-Ups!!!

Remember, it's time to reserve your spot for our upcoming 2020 Winter CSA season! We have a limited number of spaces available - we offer just 40 winter shares compared to 100 main season shares - so we encourage you to sign up in a timely fashion to guarantee your spot. We'll give current CSA members a two-week priority sign-up period, through November 6th, after which we'll open it up the general public.
 
Our winter CSA has a slightly different rhythm than our main season: starting the week of January 6th we pack shares on an every-other-week schedule (weather permitting), through the week of May 11th. We have a pickup location at the farm and another in Bandon (we do not offer delivery to Port Orford or Coos Bay in the winter). You'll get ten shares total over a 20 week period, replete with a remarkable abundance of diverse seasonal produce. Over the past few years I've been amazed at the rainbow-array of food the farm can put out during the darkest, coldest time of the year. Some of our members have even confessed that they like the winter CSA better than summer... :)

To learn more and get signed up, follow this link to our website!

Thanks for eating with us year-round!
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November Farmstand Hours
 
Every Wednesday, Rain or Shine
10 am to 1 pm
(No more Saturdays until next June)

Fresh Produce
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags!

Directions to the Farm
For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:
 
Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.
 
Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients
 
Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.
 
Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.
Copyright © 2019 Valley Flora, All rights reserved.


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