CSA Newsletter: Week 27 of 28 from Valley Flora!

  • Kale
  • Carrots
  • Kohlrabi
  • Spaghetti Squash
  • Celeriac
  • Yellow Onion
  • Head Lettuce - the final harvest! We've never made it into December with head lettuce before, so I was pretty tickled to pull off one last harvest this week. 
  • Rosalba Radicchio - Third time's a charm? This is the final radicchio variety for the season and it's the bell of the ball! She goes by the name "Rosalba" and is a unique novelty among her chicory cousins because she blushes a bridesmaid pink. I'm taken by her because she likes cold weather - in fact, she requires it to turn pink - and it's always fun to make a salad the color of spring blossoms in December.

The Final Two Weeks!

It's not over yet! We're back to our normal schedule this week and you've got two more tote of veggies coming your way this week and next to cap off our 28-week season. On the heels of a hearty Thanksgiving we like to give you some roughage and bitter greens - kale! radicchio! - to reset your system. Then next week we'll hook you up with one final tote replete with lots of things that store well - beets! green cabbage! shallots! potatoes! kabocha squash! - to help you greet the winter solstice with an ample pantry. On the farm, the to-do list has trimmed itself down considerably so that we're mostly focused on harvest, a few final field projects, and getting the horse palace buttoned up (the big ponies are delighted with their new cozy digs!). It means we get a revel in the mellowing workload and savor some long evenings by the woodstove. I love winter!

See you next week for the last hurrah!

 

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