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This Week’s Share

Rutabagas
Sweet potatoes/Winter squash
Carrots
Scallions
Collards/Chard
Arugula/Tokyo Bekana
Spinach
Broccoli

Winter Season Updates

We hope everyone is doing great this week, despite all the rain and enjoying the taste of warm sunny days we have had in between.

And happy belated leap day! It is bringing us the Spring Equinox a little earlier, on March 19.

The moment we switched from February to March, it immediately felt like winter was over, and the serious bustle of spring was here. The greenhouse we already thought was full (with 5 different types of onions totaling 100,000 seeds!), is now bursting with so many gorgeous baby transplants.

Spring is for newness, birth, and endless possibility. Everything has potential at this time of year. Everything feels like it could go according to plan, pitfalls can all be wisely foreseen, and prevented.

Things, such as, amount plants being enough. and a good size at the right week. And at the tail end of summer we will not grow tired and are going to bow out gracefully to make way for perfect cover cropping at the perfect moment.

But alas, there will always be some hiccups along the way, even more so with climate change throwing curveballs into predictable seasons and consistent weather patterns etc.

Each year though we do learn from all of our successes and more so from those things that are not so successful. And each year we see new accomplishments and skillsets be added to our team’s “toolbelt” of farming. Thank you again for being apart of one of the biggest new ones for us, our first ever Winter CSA.

Coming up soon we’ll be transitioning the amazing new high tunnels from winter greens to trialing early summer crops!

These tunnels were made specifically with winter growing in mind, but they are extremely useful in season extension year round. There is no guarantee as we will be making our best guesses on the timing to seed to harvest before it gets too hot inside for young plants to thrive. This year we will trial crops we have grown in the field (or in pots) like cucumbers, tomatoes, and ginger! We are excited to see what they bring for us in Spring and how long they may last.

Recipe:

Parmesan Baked Rutabaga

RECipe of the Week

A really exciting new item in your CSA this week is rutabaga! This amazing root is like a turnip and a potato put together, and it can be cooked in literally any of the hundreds of ways you could eat a potato. A fun twist on the shepherd’s pie is using mashed rutabaga instead of mashed potatoes! It can of course be roasted along with carrots and sweet potatoes on a tasty sheet bake. This recipe is for an awesome cheesy gratin-like rutabaga side dish. Enjoy!