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CSA Week 1 June 9-10

Posted on June 3rd, 2021 by Amy Philson

Summer CSA is here!  We are looking forward to a summer full of zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, and more, but while we wait for our summer produce to grow we enjoy lots of greens, scallions, rhubarb, and plenty of spring veggies.  

You will receive this email every Friday (every other for biweekly shares), where we share info about the weekly share, farm news, and other updates.  This email always contains the link for customizing your share.

Look for an email in the next few days with info specific to your pickup location.  A couple of changes to note:  Pittsburgh deliveries move back to Thursdays for Summer/Fall, and New Castle pickup is moving to Thursdays.  If you're new to NWPA Growers, you might also want to review the info in the Welcome email that you received when you signed up.  If you have questions about your account or customizing your share, please don't hesitate to email me.

You have until Sunday at 3 p.m. to customize your share.  We recommend customizing early, and then checking back throughout the weekend to see if you can grab other items that another member has swapped out of their share.  You have a "budget" in your share, so if you add more than your budget allows, then you will have swap charges.  You can also add extras to your share.  If you have chosen to pay offline via check, you will need to add a credit card to your account for extras or else send money to put on your account above your chare price.  

Glacial Till Farm:  Lots going on here, but we stopped to snap pics of sunrise and sunset looking across our garden field.  Sunset is in the featured photo at the top, and here is the sunrise from the other direction.
 
This week Humble Bee & Tree Farm has a bunch of new soap scents, featuring manly scents just in time for Father's Day!  If you order 3 or more soaps, you will receive a credit for $1.00 for each soap that you purchase ($3.00 off 3, $5.00 off 5, etc.).  
 
We also have some new products from Full Moon Mushrooms.  Mushroom Jerky is a vegan alternative to jerky, made with dried mixed gourmet mushrooms.  This week's featured flavor is Maple Chipotle, but we only have 5 available.  We also have 2 extra boxes of their Beelzebub's Salsa/Hummus Share, which contains three pints of salsa and one container of hummus each month.  This month's flavors are Salsa Verde, Sour Cherry Salsa, Pineapple Chipotle Salsa, and Dessert Hummus.  You can add this share to your order if you want to receive a variety of salsas and hummus each month.  This is the only way they are selling their salsa and hummus now.  Another change is that we asked Full Moon Mushrooms to package their 1/4 lb. mushrooms in paper bags from now on to reduce the use of plastic.

We welcomed Spur Hollow Farm as a new grower this year.  Jeff and Lindsay are a young couple who are geeked about growing nutrient-dense produce for market.  Fresh green onions this week! They are coming along really well! These are planted in groups of 8-10 green onions, making transplanting easier and uniform spacing for cultivation.

Sugar snap peas are almost in full bloom! Those beautiful white flowers will be replaced by sweet, crunchy sugar snap peas here in a few weeks.  A fresh picked sugar snap pea is incomparable to one bought in the store or frozen. The sweetness is incredible, and the flavor is so intense, especially being grown in a true deep organic system where nutrient density is our priority.

Hazy Hollow Farm is featuring Sweet Italian Sausage and Pork Chops this week.  One of their favorite ways of using the sausage is in Creamy Italian Sausage Pasta.
 
Webstore:  We hope to get all of our extra products listed here soon, but while we wait for the finalization of Harvie's inventory management software, our Webstore is still open.  You can find even more products there, to be delivered along with your CSA share.
 
As always, I am offline from Friday evening until Saturday night, so if you email me during that time I will reply late Saturday or Sunday morning.  You can also click on the Support tab in your Harvie account for help. 
 
Happy farm shopping!
On behalf of your NWPA Growers farmers,
Amy Philson
CSA Week 1 June 9-10
NWPA Growers Co-op
NWPA Growers is a cooperative of farms operating in the rich agricultural landscape of Northwest Pennsylvania that produce vegetables, fruits, eggs, beef, chicken, pork, lamb, maple, honey, and more!    

Our farmers are dedicated to sustainability and all grow organically or naturally.
- No chemical pesticides/herbicides
- No chemical fertilizers
- No GMO's  

Working together, we can provide our communities with a greater choice of quality farm products, growing a vibrant local food economy in western Pennsylvania.
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