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Farm News for this week

Posted on October 25th, 2020 by Teresa Kurtak

Our CSA Flower Shares have ended.  We've now shifted gears to start on custom orders for dried floral wreaths and dried bouquets (which are being offered as extras this week).  Throughout the season we dry floral material that we turn into beautiful arrangements during the Fall and Winter.  Each wreath is hand made, unique, and can be customized to your preferences for color, style, etc. As each wreath takes an hour or more, we need time to create them and are now collecting orders for delivery on Nov. 15th, 19th, and 21st, depending on what day your pick up is. Interested?  You can order one here: https://www.harvie.farm/signup/fifth-crow-farm. 

Feel free to e-mail Teresa@fifthcrowfarm.com if you have any specific notes on what colors or style you'd like.

NEXT SEASON: We will be starting to accept registrations for next season (2021) the week after Thanksgiving.  We have decided not to do a Winter CSA this year, but we will start offering boxes week to week via our Farmstand starting after the New Year based on what we've got in the fields.  Likely this will only be for pick up at our farmers' markets.  If you signed up for auto-renew, expect to get an e-mail soon double checking that you do indeed what to auto-renew.  The auto-renew process with also happen the week after Thanksgiving. 


This week's apples:

Belle de Boskoop: Gold with a red blush, medium to heavily russeted. Creamy white dense flesh with a crisp texture. Layers of flavor. Tart, dry and highly aromatic mellows and sweetens with storage. Gets soft with cooking. Tend to be quite large.

 

 

 

 

Enterprise: Dark red skin, firm white flesh, great for cooking. Sweet, spicy, with mild tartness.

 

 

 

 

Hokuto: From Japan, these very large, juicy, sweet, crisp apples are famous for their size- in 2005 a Hokuto claimed the World's record for heaviest apple.

 

 

 

 

Idared- Cross between a Jonathan and Wagener Apple. Originally from Moscow, ID. This beautiful dark red skinned apple holds up beautifully to cooking and keeps well. Mild flavor, can make a beautiful pink applesauce if cooked with skins. Sweetly tart.