Firmly Rooted Winter CSA - Week 2
Administrative Details
I hope you all enjoyed your first shares; we were pretty excited about the gorgeous food we were sending out.
Please know that if something ever gets missed in your shares we'd like you to reach out by email and tell us (firmlyrootedfarm@gmail.com). We really want to get all the food you ordered but occasionally this doesn’t happen and it’s a simple matter for us to add a credit to your account so at least you can recover the value.
Remember to check out Harvie University for help files on using Harvie. It can be a powerful program that gets you exactly the food you want, but you've got to know how to use it first.
https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/115001112094-Customer-FAQ
What you Can Expect in Your Shares
This will be the last week for napa cabbage, and the last or second to last for celery and ginger. If you've been thinking about trying to make kimchi, or about freezing some of our gorgeous ginger: now is the time!
New this week: sweet potatoes, parsnips, and fennel (I forgot to put fennel on the list last week). I hope you’ll give fennel a try. I love it shaved in salad with radish, onion and tart apple, or it's beautiful au gratin, grilled or roasted. We also have some incredibly beautiful frilly endive (because bitter is better), and dandelion greens this week. Be adventurous folks!
On the Farm
Last week we got our garlic planted. It’s our last major crop to go in and we planted about 6,000 cloves. It’s always a huge relief to get the garlic in because October is usually a very wet month which makes planting a challenge, indeed, the forecast looks like we are headed for a fair amount of wet.
Now we shift our focus to harvesting all of the root crops that will get us through the winter. Think of us when it rains, we’ll be slogging through the mud, bringing in wagon loads of vegetable gems to keep us all fed.
That's all for now folks, happy eating until next time.
Tamara
