Welcome to Week 1 of the Fall CSA season!
Welcome to everyone joining us for the first time and welcome back to everyone continuing on from the main season!
Gentle reminder about picking up your share: Please try pick up your veggies during the pick up window. Some of our locations are other businesses who have been very generous to let us use their space for a CSA site. Some locations have more flexibility (on farm, Seattle downtown), but if you do not pick up your share in a timely manner, we can not guarantee that it will be there.
This week on the farm we are clearing out the last of the summer crops, cover cropping the tomato houses, and starting construction on our new high tunnel! We are lucky to receive several grants from USDA for a couple big projects, including a new high tunnel and to install a new pollinator hedgerow along the river bank. More updates on the hedgerow project soon!
Veg this week:
Its Chicory Week! We try to have chicory available most of the winter, but this week in particular is a celebration of chicory here in the Northwest. We have radicchio and escarole available this week, and will be putting these into salad mix as lettuce phases out. Chicories are beautiful and diverse, and thrive in cold weather, making it a great alternative to non local lettuce. Our reliance on CA and AZ grown lettuce and salad mix through the winter months are not sustainable in the long term. We are eating exported Californian WATER that has been piped into a desert harvested with exploitative labor practices to satisfy our craving for caesar salad in January. We farmers would love to see more people switch to locally grown, wildly biodiverse chicories for the winter and decentralize the extractive corporate salad industry! *End rant*
Winter Squash- We have pie pumpkins, spaghetti squash, delicata squash, red Kuri squash, and two types of Japanese pumpkins (black futsu and Chirimen.) We made a curry using a red kuri squash and chickpeas over the weekend and it was perfect for this rainy weather.
The last of the peppers? Peppers tend to be the last warm weather crop around, so enjoy them before our possible first frost this weekend! We have sweet peppers (Italian and bells) and hot peppers available this week.
Many Mustard Greens available this week! Our first tunnel of fall/winter plantings is looking great and we have some lovely mustard greens coming from this tunnel. Green, purple, red, smooth, frilly types are all planted in here.
