C.S.A. Week 14

Last week of Summer C.S.A. 2022

Thank you to all our members for participating with us this year. Many of you have been doing the C.S.A with us since we started, and also have been long time Earle Family Farm patrons!

Keep an eye out for pop up fall shares in the upcoming weeks and consider checking out our cooperative winter C.S.A. at www.thefoothillfarmallaince.com to eat locally all winter.

Sorry for the last-minute item changes last week, we subbed yellow onions for leeks, and threw in Autumn Frost Squash. For those of you who are still wondering its very similar to a butternut.

The rain we had been craving all summer long is falling now in September. Buckets and Buckets of it rained down last Thursday while I worked in the greenhouse, transplanting a bed of winter greens and pulling out the rest of the tomatoes. I started work with a podcast on, but by mid-day the rain and intermittent thunder were so loud amplified by the tunnel’s plastic roof that I had to turn it off. Making many trips to the compost pile with wheelbarrow loads of heaped tomatoes plants, I was soaking wet by midafternoon despite mostly working in a protected space. I was done, craving some dry clothes and some quiet time, my ears needing a break from the sound of the rain. By 5:30 the rain was clearing, and a perfect rainbow formed over the field in the setting sun. Kyle took Joni out to see it, and she asked where it was going, and as it disappeared, where it went and if it was broken. The next morning, she talked about it again, and by chance I sent the photo of it to my friend Joanne at Mountain Heartbeet Farm in Effingham NH. She immediately sent back a matching photo of the other end of it at her farm from the evening before. It pleased both of us to think of the rainbow starting and ending over our respective farms and Joni was able to see the entire thing in photo form.

In the share:

• Sweet Dumpling Delicata

• Honey Nut Squash

• Leeks

• Carrots

• Beets

• Sweet Peppers

• Sweet Potatoes

RIght end of the Rainbow at Hosac Farm

Left end of the Rainbow at Mountain Heartbeet

Stuffed Southwestern Peppers

4 large Peppers, sliced in half and seeds and stem removed

4 oz your choice cheese

1/4 c diced red onion

1/4 c chopped cilantro

1/2 c roasted corn kernels (thawed, frozen corn works fine)

1 minced garlic clove

Salt and pepper to taste

1 – 2 T heavy cream or half and half

Combine ingredients, fill peppers on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes at 425. Serve

One of our members send a link to a Kohlrabi Slaw recipe, we have not tried this one yet, but it looks really good. Kohlrabi Slaw