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A fun time of year for us with transitions to different duties.  We took floral orders for Thaksgiving Centerpieces this year for the first time and it was lots of fun for us to see so many past floral customers and dip creative fingers back into floral design again.   We love celebrating Thanksgiving and grateful for the happy support.   The “want to” tasks around the house get tackled now that all the “have to” jobs have faded away with with the arrival of the winter cold.  Soups and stews simmer on the stove while we clean up the tools, inventory and store the packaging materials for the food shares (on a snazzy new storage shelf Scott had time to build), Scott also installed improved lighting in the garage,  and on sunny days we prepare the hoop house for Spring in tee shirts. Raspberry Syrup was made with the gallons of berries we froze this Fall and the honey was spun.  We’ve ordered our seed potatoes and seed catalogs arrived.  We are starting our lists for next year’s plantings and enjoy evenings reading over all the selections.  Our seed orders are placed by Christmas to ensure we get a few superstar veggies that sell out quickly.  We only have a short break until the greenhouse heater goes on again in Feburary and it all starts over again.

We hosted our Wreath Workshop again this year.  What fun!  And what beautiful wreaths made by all.  A time filled with Holiday music, the fragrance of evergreen filling the air, and lots of laughter.

Wreath artists hard at work.

Look at that Beauty!

The 2nd and Final Winter Storage Share is one of our favorites to prepare.  With the pick up date so close to the Holidays it is fun to tuck a few special treats in as Holiday surprises.  Enjoy the bounty and this special time of year with loved ones, family and dear friends!

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE

A little over 550 pounds of food today!  Happy Holidays and see you in the Spring……..

Autumn berries harvest and froze to make syrup.

Raspberry Syrup- Made from Autumn Harvested Berries and steam extracted.  A favorite in our family.  Delicious drizzled on baked goods, over cream cheese treats, morning pancakes or waffles or a few drops added to water for a refreshing drink.  Low sugar and sweet raspberry flavor.

Empty trays after Scott has cut the comb and spun the honey. We will save the bees wax for future projects.

Scott spinning the honey.

Fall Honey-Deep rich flavor.  Another Holiday treat.

Potatoes-A big bag of Molly and another smaller bag of waxy reds perfect for roasting or frying.

Sweet Potatoes-More of our amazing bounty crop this year.

Winter Squash-An assorted collection of Hubbard, butternut, acorn, and carnival for long term Winter Storage.

Onions-A big bag of onions for storage.

Shallots-A big bag of these delicious sweet wonders for holiday cooking.

Garlic-German Red and Music in each bag.

Daikon Radish-A few from the last harvest of the season in the garden.

Row cover protecting the crops in the hoop house.

Lettuce in the hoop house at harvest on December 6th. WOW!

North Pole Lettuce.

Lettuce-YEP! Lettuce…..just harvested from the hoop house. Amazing to us that they are here after the extreme early cold this year. We are thrilled that it pulled through under 2 layers of row cover.  Winter Marvel and North Pole are the varieties.  Fun names and sweet.  Not many people in Baraboo can say they are eating locally harvested lettuce.  Enjoy!

Harvesting the Spinach.

Maeve harvesting the green Space Spinach.

Spinach Harvest.

Picking Red Kitten Spinach.

I just like this photo for some reason….

Spinach-A big bag of this sweet treat. A mix of 2 varieties of green and a bit of the fancy Red Kitten added to the mix.  Juicy thick leaves.  It is the  best time of year for Spinach for flavor.  Just harvested from the hoop house for you.

Sneaking a few green onions out for the share.

Green Onions-Another hoop house crop and a few for a treat.

Pac Choi-A few saved from our final harvest of the season.

Storage Cabbage-The Mini varieties we love so much. A few for everyone.

Chinese Cabbage-A juicy head that will store all winter in a thin plastic bag.  We held 1 last year until May in the fridge.

Celeriac Root-The perfect addition to soups and stews.  Rich robust flavor.

Baby Carrots planted in Crates in August for Winter Share Harvest.

Baby Carrot Harvest.

We planted 3 different varieties to test.

Baby Carrots-Started late in the season for a Winter Share Treat!  SWEET as candy.  Enjoy oven roasted, steamed, braised, or best fresh…..

Sprouts-A spicy mix. Russian Blend. 4 days old.   Mix contains red clover, onion, mustard, funugreek and dill.  Store on a bright windowsill on a plate.   Flush the container with water twice a day and watch them grow.  And some tasty mung beans too.  Both can be enjoyed as a garnish for soups and stews, on sandwiches or a salad topping.

Fox Line City Farm Soap!-Happy Holidays .  My favorite made by a friend.  A nice big batch to share.  Enjoy.

Thank you to everyone of you that has made this life possible for our family.  We are grateful for this experience and honored to share our gardens with you.

Jennifer, Scott and Maeve

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The main garden is put to bed.

Tomato, melon and leek patch all cleaned up.

Hoop House in the morning. Still chugging along.

It is a whole new world around here.  The final crops are being pulled from the garden and hoop house and we LOVE! the fact that we are eating wonderful greens harvested in November! Delicious.  We have been very busy with autumn clean up and getting the last of the crops out and final winter over crops in.  It is a lot of work and time to pull down all the tomato vines and clean up the space. The trellis all need to be removed and stored, plastic mulch removed and irrigation pulled before the soil is tilled and prepped for Spring.  And then we repeat the process with the cucumber area and then focus on other areas of the garden with tidy, tidy, tidy.  Having things all set before the snow flies and ground turns solid makes life so much easier in the Spring.  We are in great shape with a few tiny “want to” duties to tackle but the BIG “have to” duties have been checked off the list.  We are grateful the weather has been comfortable and mild for finishing up the season.

Winter over spinach well established out in the garden all set for Spring.

Garlic Beds.

We spent a long day planting 2400+ cloves of garlic by hand!  Scott had the leaf mulch on by dark and we were happy the job was complete in one day.    Our favorites-Music and German Red were planted.   The garlic harvest this year was abundant and strong and we were able to save and replant our own supply.  A first for us not having to buy in organic seed garlic.

We are already catching ourselves planning out next year.  Fun to do and dream about next year’s garden…..Seed catalogs will arrive and our potato order will go in soon.  We are already excited about 2015 season.

With the garden clean up well under control, tools properly stored away, and the greenhouse and hoop house ready for winter we felt there was time to work on another favorite job again.  We are even taking orders this year for Thanksgiving Bouquets.

Jennifer working on floral pieces for a special event.

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE

We have had a fantastic finish to the season and thrilled to share the bounty with all of you.  An amazing pick up this week with lots of wonderful surprises.  A BIG! box and a Foxline tote of goodies for everyone to take home for Thanksgiving cooking. 33 pounds!!!  WOW! Enjoy.

Get ready for the long DELICIOUS list………

Arugula-A snappy bunch for fresh eating or braising.

Mazuna Mix-Lime green and purple-A mild mustard flavored green.  Delicious fresh or braised.

Lettuce!-REALLY Lettuce….Juicy heads of romaine.

Spinach-A huge HUGE! bag of delicious green leaves and another bag of the beautiful Red Kitten.

Scott harvesting Red Kitten Spinach.

Jennifer harvesting the big juicy Space Spinach.

Scott double rinsing the spinach.

Pac Choi-A mix of 2 varieties.  Win Win and White Flash.

Mini Pac Choi- A bag of tiny pac choi.

Radish- Nice big bag of the mild French Breakfast.

Maeve said they look like peppermints or candy canes.

Kale-A mixed bunch of young kale leaves.

Brussels Sprouts-FINALLY!  They are smaller this year but they are here.  We were worried there for awhile that there was going to be nothing.  Enjoy the bounty!

The Brussels Sprout Patch. We will see if we can get 1 more harvest out of it this year.

Brussels Sprouts harvest.

Broccoli/Cauliflower Mix-A big bag of those delicious broccoli side shoots and small cauliflower heads.

Sweet Potatoes-Our best year ever with this crop.  3 Pounds each.

Potatoes-A variety called Molly.  6 pounds each.

Garlic-A combination of Music and German Red.

Onion-2 pound bag of storage onions.

Squash-A butternut and 2 acorns.

Carrots-Sweet storage carrots.  Hoop House grown.

Scott hand digging the carrots.

A great final carrot harvest.

Leeks-Scotts goal this year…Grow big thick leeks.  Here they are.  Enjoy.

Sunchokes-A nice big bag of these nutty treats.  Will store ALL winter in the fridge in a plastic bag.

Scott digging the sunchokes earlier in the Fall.

Rosemary-A washed bundle.

Sage-A washed bicolor mix.

NEXT STORAGE SHARE PICK UP MONDAY DECEMBER 8

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Happy End of the Summer 2014 Season!

First off-Thank you to all that shared our best season ever!   We are grateful to all of you that provided us with this purposeful rewarding way of life and time home with our young daughter Maeve.  We love our garden and all the work involved in growing the perfect tomato, or cucumber or sweet, sweet melon.  We truely believe in growing organically delicious, healthy, and beautiful produce for our family and love sharing the bounty with others.  Again, heartfelt thanks to you.

Reflecting on the Summer 2014 season we are pleased.  The cooler growing temperatures made work so much easier but also made us wait for a few weeks for the heat loving crops.  Each season has it’s success stories that shine.  Yipee!  Sweet potatoes.  Finally! Big monsters that are beautiful.  We loved!! all those mini snacking cucumbers that we trialed for the first time this year.  Perfect.  We have plans already to grow these beauties again next season.  The spinach was a powerhouse and we are thrilled we finally got this crop down.  Thanks to the hoophouse we were able to provide delicious spinach in several weekly shares all summer long. The hoophouse also kept us in sweet juicy lettuce all season long.  Great variety and quality.   The snacking carrots were amazing, and the cantalope so sweet and bountiful.  The tomatoes were tasty and we were pleased with our variety selection.  A bit disappointed with the volume given the cooler temperatures but feel we all had enough to satisfy.   Beans were wonderful this year and we were happy with the rotation. Oh, and the garlic! Abundant and nice sized heads.   The disappointments were few but still disappointments.  We are still waiting for the Brussels Sprouts to do “something” more than itty bitty buttons.  We LOVE! these sprouts and look forward to this crop all season long.  We are hopeful that they will plump up some before winter share.  Watermelon did not thrive like the cantalope this season and perhaps it was our error where we chose to plant the patch this year.  The popcorn crop experiment almost made it but did not reach maturity before the first frost.  Next year we will have it in early and this is a big goal for 2015. We are glad we had a steady supply of broccoli and cauliflower that was delicious but we are still striving for the BIG huge heads.  These crops will be our winter research reading and next year we should have it down.

Our duties now shift to major garden clean up.  The tomato “graveyard” needs to be all tidied up and all the irrigation throughout the garden pulled and hopefully we can get it tilled before it freezes.  Our hoophouse is packed-we even planted in the walking aisles to ensure a wonderful Winter Share season….pleanty of growing season remain for the cool loving crops.

WINTER STORAGE SHARE PICK UP DATES NOVEMBER 10TH AND DECEMBER 8TH

Scott packing the final shares of the season.

WHAT IS IN YOUR FINAL SHARE WEEK 20

All shares are packed in Fox line tote bags this week.  Keep the bag as an end of season thank you and a happy reminder of the garden all winter long.

536 pounds of Autumn delights in the shares this week.

GRAND TOTAL WEIGHT FOR THE SEASON…….8615 POUNDS OF FOOD FROM THE GARDEN!

SNACK PACK

The spinach harvesters in the hoophouse.

Spinach-A big bag of delicious juicy green leaves.

Garlic-A few heads of Music or German Red.

Storage Onions-Several to carry you into the Fall.

Leeks-The big thick Autumn Leeks that are the best!

Scott digging the sunchokes.

Sunchokes/Jerusalem Artichokes-A favorite late season crop. Those funny knotty looking things…..  The roots have a slight sunflower taste to them.  Best oven roasted or in soups and stews.  Long storage life in a sealed bag in the refrigerator.

Sweet Potatoes-Delicious!  Enjoy our season’s pride and joy!  All cured and ready to eat.  Store at room temperature.

Heading out to cut the parsley.

Parsley-Big bunch of Italian large leaf.

Radish- Our favorite radish to grow.  French Breakfast.  Mild and pretty.

Butternut Squash- Perfect size for roasting or soup.

FULL SHARE

Harvesting the Red Kitten spinach.

Spinach-A jumbo bag of dark green and red kitten spinach.

Arugula-We could not help ourselves…….it is so good and perfect right now.  1 more bunch for you.

Garlic-A few heads of Music or German Red.

Storage Onions-Several to carry you into the Fall.

Shallots-Wonderful mild flavor and a long storage life.

Leeks-The big thick Autumn Leeks that are oh so good.

Sunchokes/Jerusalem Artichokes-A favorite late season crop. Those funny knotty looking things…..  The roots have a slight sunflower taste to them.  Best oven roasted or in soups and stews.  Long storage live in a sealed bag in the refrigerator.

Sweet Potatoes-Delicious!  Enjoy our season’s pride and joy!  All cured and ready to eat.  Store at room temperature.

Parsley-Big bunch of Italian large leaf.

Here is your radish picker this week.

And cleaner.

Maeve said they look like peppermints or candy canes.

Radish- Our favorite radish to grow.  French Breakfast.  Mild and pretty.

Mini Green Cabbage-A small head of our favorite mini variety.

Hubbard Winter Squash- Our #1 favorite for flavor and texture.  A smaller hubbard variety and a bit more manageable.

Carnival Winter Squash-A perfect squash for single serving or stuffing.  Rich sweet flavor.

Trying to find a few brussels spouts ready to pick.

The bucket is slowly filling up as I make my way down the long rows.

Brussels Sprouts OR Pepper Mix-We were able to harvest enough brussels sprouts to cover 1/2 the full shares.  Bag of brussels sprouts OR the final pepper harvest mix.

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Frost on the oregano.

Chilly mornings and we have had our first hard frost.  8 days earlier than last year.  We have picked our last beans, tomatoes, zucchini and peppers for 2014.  The garden focus now shifts to clean up, taking care of the cold loving broccoli in the field, harvesting the last of the storage cabbage and tending to the powerhouse hoophouse.  VERY hard for us to believe that we are nearing the end of the season.  Next week is the final pick up!  A whirlwind of a wonderful summer that flew by.  It seems that we were just picking strawberries and waiting for that first taste of a cucumber and now hustle to get it all tidied up before the snow flies.  Garden clean up in a snowstorm is not fun.

Frost kissed zinnia Saturday morning.

Row cover to protect a few tender plants in the garden from a chill.

A reminder that next week-Monday October 13th is the final pick up of the season.  Please return all boxes,bags, and packaging material to your pick up site.

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE

A fantastic Autumn Share this week.  595 pounds of wonderful!

SNACK PACK

Lettuce-Another seasonal favorite.  A delicious green bibb called Bambi.  GREAT! flavor and texture.

Frosty Kale.

Kale-A friend called this week to wish me Happy National Kale Day…..who knew there was such a thing?   In honor of this great holiday a nice assorted frost kissed bunch that is so flavorful.  Maeve loves to eat bowls full of kale crisps as a snack.

Storage Onions-A few in each share.

The sweet potato harvest curing in the green house.

Sweet Potatoes-They are here! AND they are delicious.  We are so thrilled with this year’s harvest.  Enjoy!  Cured for several weeks so nice and sweet and ready to eat.

Scott cleaning the Celeriac root.

Celeriac root getting a quick bath in the washing machine.

Celeriac Root-That odd little knotty thing in the bottom of your bag.  Delicious celery flavor.  Great in soups and stews.

Carrots-A nice sized bag of those tasty snackers.

Winter Squash-A slender Delicata. Very sweet.  Excellent for stuffing and baking.

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Pretty Bambi in the hoophouse.

Lettuce-2 mini green bibb heads in each share.

Kale-A friend called this week to wish me Happy National Kale Day…..who knew there was such a thing?   In honor of this great holiday a nice assorted frost kissed bunch that is so flavorful.  Maeve loves to eat bowls full of kale crisps as a snack.

Storage Onions-A few in each share.

Scott harvesting the Napa Cabbage before the frost.

Napa Cabbage at harvest.

Napa Cabbage/Chinese Cabbage-Excellent storage life.  We had one in our refrigerator until May last year!  Light sweet taste.

Beets in the hoophouse.

Getting beets ready for the shares.

A final bundle added to the pile.

Beets-We get pretty excited about beets for some reason around here.  Enjoy this fantastic treat!

Celeriac Root-A few of these funny little knotty roots in each share.  Wonderful celery flavor.  Long storage life.  I made a very creamy celeriac root soup this past week with a few leeks and chicken stock.  A hit!

Pulling carrots!

Scott cutting the tops off the carrot harvest in the hoophouse.

Carrots- A big crunchy bag.

Winter Squash-Sweet Butternut and Carnvel.

Cauliflower OR Broccoli-A small bag of either cauliflower or broccoli side shoots.

Cherry Tomatoes-Surprisingly those few warm days last week pushed a few more cherries through for us.  Truely the end of tomatoes.

BEST GUESS FOR OUR FINAL WEEK-SQUASH, SWEET POTATOES, SPINACH MOTHER LOAD!, BRUSSELS  SPROUTS, ONIONS, LEEKS, GARLIC, RADISHES, AND MORE!!!!!

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A beautiful week of warm weather for garden clean up with a nice burst of heat to push the last late summer crops from the garden.  Scott pulled all the cucumber vines down and to the compost pile, the melon vines are all cleaned out.  The start of the tomato patch clean up is scheduled for this coming week.  Truely the end of the summer gardening season but lots still going on and growing!  We have Autumn loving cool crops still outside in the the garden that are thriving. Late broccoli, Kale, Swiss Chard, Chinese Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celeriac Root and more….. we seeded in long rows of spinach outside this week to winter over for Spring Shares and continue to transplant seedlings in the hoophouse for Winter Shares.  Gardening does not end for us until December when we pull late carrots mulched in the hoophouse and perhaps pluck a bit of spinich nestled under double row cover from the hoophouse too.

Cauliflower heading up in the garden.

Cool loving Arcadia broccoli plants going in the hoophouse for Winter Share harvest.

Planting long rows of Arcadia Broccoli in the hoophouse.

Transplants to go into the hoophouse yet this season……cold lettuces, pac choi, kohlrabi, radicchio and more.

Tiny radishes.

We are still picking a pint or 2 each day of Fall Raspberries that we freeze for making future jams and syrups for a treat in the Winter Storage Share.

Raspberry picking after school.

The end of season survey will be in your share this week.  We would love to read what your thoughts are on the season and any suggestions are always appreciated.  Please return the survey with your box/bag return.

LAST PICK UP IS MONDAY OCTOBER 13TH!  PLEASE RETURN ALL EXTRA BAGS/BOXES AND PACKAGING YOU MAY HAVE FLOATING AROUND YOUR HOUSE OR VEHICLES.  THANK YOU!

We have a few Winter Storage Shares available if anyone is interested….  Baraboo Pick Up Only. Pick up Dates are November 10th and December 8th.  $160

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE.

364 pounds of garden produce went out the door today!

SNACK PACK

Leaf lettuce mix-A delicious just cut assortment.

Portioning out the arugula after a double rinse.

Arugula  ready to be banded.

Arugula-A nice big bunch of this snappy treat.  Several members mentioned on their surveys last season that they would like more arugula throughout the season…..hope this was enough for all the arugula lovers!

Salad Turnips-Wonderful!  Enjoy this Spring and Fall treat.  A Japanese variety called Hakurei.  Best eaten raw.  Greens are edible too.

Leeks-The wonderful Fall leeks we have been waiting for…..

Potatoes-We could not put leeks in the shares without potatoes.  Just did not seem right.  Adarondack Reds for everyone.

Green Beans-A surprise for us as we did not think this crop would amount to much in the cold weather a few weeks back.  A late season bounty.

Garlic-Music or German Red in every share.

Cherry Tomaotes-The end of the ripe tomato season for us.

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Red Kitten is back!

Scott weighing out the Spinach.

Spinach-A huge bag of Spinach this week.  A green variety called Space and the pretty Red Kitten returns.

Arugula-A nice big bunch of this snappy treat.  Several members mentioned on their surveys last season that they would like more arugula throughout the season…..hope this was enough for all the arugula lovers.

Salad Turnips-Wonderful!  Enjoy this Spring and Fall treat.  A Japanese variety called Hakurei.  Best eaten raw.  Greens are eadable too.

Leeks-The wonderful Fall leeks we have been waiting for…..

Maeve weighed out the potatoes again this week-after we made a crown to make the activity seem “fancier”.

Potatoes-We could not put leeks in the shares without potatoes.  Just did not seem right.  Adarondick Reds for everyone.

Green Beans-A surprise for us as we did not think this crop would amount to much in the cold weather a few weeks back.  A late season bounty.

Broccoli-A bag of the smaller side shoots harvested off our summer  broccoli.

Storage Onions-A few in every share.

Winter Squash-A Variety called Carnival. A multi colored sweet dumpling. Sweet tender orange flesh.  Great for stuffing.

Summer Squash-A few little gems to mark the TRUE end of this summer staple.  The second patch vines are done.

Garlic-Music or German Red in every share.

The last cherry tomato harvest.

Cherry Tomates-The end of the ripe tomato season for us.

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-BEETS, CARROTS, SWEET POTATOES!!!!!, LETTUCE, KALE AND MORE.

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A pretty cobweb on the tomato trellis.

Another work of art that greets us in the morning dew.

The first day of Autumn is just around the corner and it feels like it out in the garden.  Damp dewy mornings and we busy ourselves with other duties while we wait for the garden to dry a bit.  Working with cold wet clothes and chilly wet fingers at this time of year is never fun.

Exciting news to report.  Scott harvested all the Sweet Potatoes this week-by hand!  The vines were slightly nipped by a light frost and it was time to harvest as growing stopped with the vine damage.  A bumper crop.  Our best ever and we are thrilled….Thank you Uncle Jim for your help!!!!!  We planted 500 slips in Spring and Scott weighed out just over 465 pounds when he put them in the greenhouse to cure. Sweet potatoes taste almost like a regular potato if eaten right after harvest.  They need a period of time in high heat to convert the sugars and sweeten up a bit.  We will let them sit in the warmth of the greenhouse for a week or 2 and then Tons!!! of Sweet Potatoes in the final weeks of the CSA.

Sweet potatoes coming in from the field.

Scott with some beautiful sweet potatoes in the greenhouse.

We also decided to harvest Maeve’s big pumpkin.  We noticed a critter was nibbling on a neigboring pumpkin and did not want this beauty to get a chomp or 2 on his backside.

Getting ready to harvest our great pumpkin.

He’s up and ready to be taken out of the garden.

Lots of wonderful produce yet to come out of the garden and hoophouse. Perhaps a few more tomatoes as the weather report is saying warmer days this week.  We will try for a few more for everyone.  It has been a good tomato year for us but it would be nice to taste a few more in these first days of Autumn.  Next week a big leek harvest of the delicious thick Autumn leeks and a great crop of thick jumbo stew carrots.  We pulled a few to test this week and they are fantastic.  A last big crop of beets in the coming weeks and ALL that fall spinach (including Red Kitten!) is just starting to leaf out beautifully. Oh, and it does look like all that popcorn that was blown down flat and Scott spent all that time standing back up is going to do something..  I really think there will be some popcorn.  We are afraid to peek just yet with fear of being disappointed but the ears are thick and the stalks are slowly starting to dry.  I know I said it before but this really is my favorite time of year.

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE

329 pounds of tasty treats from the garden this week.  Happy Autumn Everyone!

SNACK PACK

Pac choi-I have been looking forward to this return.  A nice juicy head of a variety called White Flash.

Cabbage all soaked and ready to be put in the cooler.

Cabbage-Those fun mini flat heads that we like so much.  Great flavor.  Perfect for salads and stir fry.

Storage Onions-The first of the storage onion harvest.  We have let them dry down and cure for many weeks and they are ready for the shares.   These will appear in the final weeks of the CSA.  Stronger flavor then the sweet summer onions earlier in the season.

Mini Snack Peppers-An assorted bag of these delicious mini sweet snacking peppers.  The last harvest for the season.

Spinach-BIG! delicious leaves.  Full of flavor.  Enjoy.

Ground Cherries-A sweet treat!

Chives-A nice garnish for soups or salads.  Great with eggs.

FULL SHARE

Pac choi-I have been looking forward to this return.   2 heads in Full Share this week.  A nice juicy head of a variety called White Flash and another taller variety called Win-Win.

Cabbage-Those fun mini flat heads that we like so much.  Great flavor.  Perfect for salads and stir fry.

Storage Onions-The first of the storage onion harvest.  We have let them dry down and cure for many weeks and they are ready for the shares.   These will appear in the final weeks of the CSA.  Stronger flavor then the sweet summer onions earlier in the season.

Peppers-A bag of “mildy hot” Anaheims and a bag of jalapenos. This week will finish the season with peppers for us.

Lettuce-We have made the transition to the cooler lettuces and this is a delicious mini head called “bambi”.

Beans-Perhaps the final bean harvest of the season.

Salad Turnips coming up from the hoop house.

Scott at the washing station cleaning the salad turnips.

Salad Turnips-They are back!  Japanese Hakurei Turnips. Our favorite salad turnip.  The texture is as smooth as butter and mild flavor.  Eat raw in salads or sliced thin on sandwiches. Raw is our prefered.  Can be lighty sauted too for stir fries.  Greens can be eaten too.

Chives-a nice garnish for soups or salads and great with eggs.

Summer Squash-A few tender little guys and this is the end of this crop for the season.

Spaghetti Squash- Baraboo Full Share only.

Celery-Erdman Full Share share only.

Tomatoes-A few choice slice or paste varieties. Sadly, this may be the end of the ripe slice/paste tomato season for us.

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-SPINACH, LEAF LETTUCE, KALE, LEEKS, WINTER SQUASH, CARROTS AND MORE……….

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