In your CSA share this week
- Delicata Squash
- Tomato
- Grape Tomato
- **Bok Choy
- **Kale
- Hakurei Turnip
- Onions – white
- **Lettuce Head
- Pepper- Bell & Mini Sweet
- Parsley
- Scallions
- Garlic – German Red
**Wash your greens at home this week. We did not give them a rinse. They will store longer unwashed. It isn’t just dirt you are be washing off. Remember..we do not use pesticides!
Reminder Renew your CSA Membership early 2025 Season – please renew now!!
Cost, payment plans, and delivery schedules are the same for 2025
Thank you!!! To those members who have already renewed. Your funds will help us get off to a great start purchasing supplies over the winter months. We have already started compiling our order lists, taking inventory, and thinking about which varieties to plant.
CSA Extension -delivered WEEKLY – Thanks or joining us for a few more weeks.
Links to Featured Recipes of the Week :
Be sure to look back at earlier newsletters for relevant recipes. Use the search feature at the bottom of this page.
New Recipe:
Past recipes – 2022, 2023, 2024
Mixed Greens and Turnip Saute – from 2024 week 3
Veggie notes & tips:
Tomato: WHAT?? I don’t think that we have ever sent home tomatoes this late into October. Let these ripen at home on your counter or in a paper bag. Tomatoes ripen from the inside out. Once your tomato is fully colored and softer – enjoy. Don’t want to wait? You can with them, roast with other veggies. Enjoy this last bit of summer in your CSA Extension Bonus Share!
Delicata Squash: no need to peel, you can eat the skin, excellent roasted, can be diced and added to curries, chili, stews, stuffed and baked, roasted with seasoning of your choice.
Hakurei Turnip: cooked or raw, peeled or unpeeled just scrubbed, shredded, diced, sliced, roasted, braised, crudites, pickled – they will store for quite some time. If you are not using produce storage containers, place a paper towel in your produce bag to absorb excess moisture on your root crops
Garlic: Use in everything!! Well, almost everything. Roasting mellows and deepens the garlic flavor. Quick Recipe: Roast in an air fryer: foil pouch, cut off very top of garlic head to expose tops of cloves, lightly drizzle with olive oil, air fry at 390 degrees for 10-20 min. Carefully open pouch and air fry for 5 more minutes to caramelize. Use roasted garlic on bread, in hummus, added to dressings and dips.
- Join our private Facebook Group: EGFCSA Veggie Group – show us what you are cooking https://www.facebook.com/groups/egfcsa/
- Check out the Vegetable Directory for storage tips, recipes, and more.
- We also have Pinterest boards for most vegetables with recipe ideas
- Use your 2022 or 2023 CSA Member Recipe Book for even more ideas!!
From the Field and Farm
Membership is now open for NEW members for weekly delivery or delivery every other week.
https://egfcsa.com/csa-membership/
Guarantee your share by paying your deposit for 2025.
Why do we have CSA renewal so early? Our small farm costs tens of thousands of dollars to run each season. We need these upfront dollars to buy supplies over the winter, cover operating expenses, and start the season in March. As many of you know, the CSA is our only farm income. Your membership supplies our funding to continue. Without your commitment to our farm for the next growing season we would not manage to continue. Your early membership commitment also helps us to plan our planting and harvest schedule.
We will limit CSA share availability next season, so please complete your 2025 Membership Form early.
Can’t make a payment right now? It’s okay—we get it. But, we need to plan for next season, so complete your form if you would like to be included in the harvest.
Do you have co-workers or friends with whom you have shared your veggies or may be interested? Please let them know that we are now accepting new members.
You need to eat real food to stay healthy and we need members to stay in business. Win/Win
2025 Membership forms:
Weekly: https://forms.gle/qhyE8z1uMc6LdgTPA
Bi-Weekly: https://forms.gle/rnHUEAADDyJQmSou6
