October Whole Farm CSA

Produce this week:

Full: Red Kale, Peashoots, Broccoli, Parsnips, Golden Beets, Roma Tomatoes, Cipollini Onions, Carnival Winter Squash, Rosemary

Half Share: Peashoots, Broccoli, Parsnips, Golden Beets, Roma Tomatoes, Cipollini Onions, Carnival Winter Squash

Fall harvest has been in full swing! We’ve been so lucky with the weather this fall as well as some timely volunteer labor! Engineers Without Borders has been out exchanging their labor for a Pumpkin donation for their fundraiser for ??wells in Uganda?? And the Good Folks at Montana Ale Works were out to get the potatoes into storage! A really nice crop of fingerlings and some standard potatoes too. Find your recipes for fingerlings. We’ll see if the soil melts enough after this storm to get more carrots and parsnips out and the last root crop of the year: Jerusalem artichokes. Hope to harvest them in 10 day’s time. Other abundant storage crops: carrots, parsnips, celeriac, cabbages, yellow onion.

During the month of October we will have the Whole Farm CSA boxes ready for you at the farm by 2:00 on Tuesdays, and we will not have other pickup sites. They will be already packed for you in boxes in the walk in cooler, it is a little chaotic here right now for Market Style Pickup! Starting the first week of November we will be changing to a Winter Schedule on the farm, that will be when we change to having the boxes ready for pickup on Wednesdays and will go back to a Market Style pickup for those of you that can make it on Wednesdays. You are welcome to pick up your box from the cooler for a week after they are put out, we ask that you come between 8am and 8pm.

This is the last week for flower bouquets for the season! Make sure you grab your dried bouquet from last week, they were out of the cooler so they were not in there normal spot and I think a few people missed them!

As part of the WFCSA share, you do have pumpkins for your family, 4 for full share and 2 for half! You’ll have to come to the farm to grab those, and take what you want! We have had a great year of growing pumpkins with Roger Nerlin out in Three Forks. The heat is so good for them and we have all sizes this year. This collaboration is good for us and good for him. They are conventionally grown from organic starts. They are not edible, so we think its an OK compromise to make them more affordable. If you want to cut your own corn stalks for decoration, we have a patch left from the sweet corn. Also, take what you want. We’re open every day but Monday for those fall delights. We also have apple cider for you this month, 12 jugs of cider for full share and 6 for half. We made a trip 10 days ago to the Bitterroot for cider apples from Mountain View Orchard. That juice is already gone, but we are receiving 20 more bulk bins late this week for another round of juice. Get yours while it is available!! And…many of you all have not used your credit. You can get extra broilers. We have a lot. Extra produce of what you see in the boxes.