Start of Winter CSA. Storage Tips, and Location information.
Lacinato Kale, Spicy mix Microgreens, Green Cabbage, Red Beets, Parsnips, Delicata Squash, Cipollini Onions, Thyme
Welcome to our Winter 2021-22 CSA Season! It starts today and runs through the last Wednesday of January. Thanksgiving week, we will have the pick up on Tuesday! Should be no other mods to pick up day. If you can not make the pick up, send a friend and have them check off your name. If you need additions to your week, we’ll have more veggies and fresh cider this week at the farm, and frozen starting next week, so stock up! We also have our farm raised chicken available at the farm stand. Wednesdays noon to 6pm.
We will be putting together crops from our walk-in coolers, dry storage, and greenhouses to feed you for the next 13 weeks!
When you get your box, carefully slide the tabs on the top and bottom of the boxes backwards. They can then be unfolded and stacked neatly for our hosts. If the tabs are tearing, be more careful and slide the tabs. We will re use these boxes and you can take your produce.
Our Winter Locations are:
Rocky Creek Farm: Market Style pickup Wednesday 12pm-5pm. The boxes are then packed into boxes and available out of the Walk-In Cooler in the back room from 8am-8pm everyday. We hold on to the boxes for a week.
Genuine Ice Cream:Inside the door and to the left. Pickup Wednesday 2pm-6m. After 6:00 we pickup the boxes and bring them back to the farm where they are available everyday 8am-8pm for a week.
Livingston: Park County Chiropractic, Wednesday 12pm-6pm. We do not bring left over boxes back to the farm.
Big Sky: By Word of Mouth, Inside Front door in the hallway. Wednesday 3pm-8pm. We do not bring left over boxes back to the farm.
We had some confusion about bringing the boxes back to the farm this summer! We only offer this for the Winter CSA and only for the boxes that are at a in town location, so this winter that is Genuine Ice Cream. At outlying locations we are unable to guarantee a late box pickup, and it is best to work that out with the host location. In the Summer we are way to busy and it is too confusing to keep track of boxes coming back to the farm!
Winter Storage Tips: This winter, we have abundant cabbage, winter squash, onion and garlic, carrots, Jerusalem artichokes (sun chokes), parsnips, fingerling potatoes, and more from storage. From the greenhouses will be spinach and micro greens on a regular basis alternated with kale & chard, lettuce, baby kale, arugula, and various asian greens.
In general, the produce that we put together for the Winter CSA is separated into a “Dry” paper bag that should be kept in that bag out of the fridge, and the the “Wet” bag that should be kept in plastic in the fridge, but here are a few more details if you store some of the produce for awhile.
Carrots, beets, celery root, parsnips, sunchokes: Keep in the plastic bag they came in and cold. 34 to 38 is best. Opening the bag on occasion and refreshing the atmosphere helps keep things fresh!
Onions and garlic: Paper bag in a cool 50 to cold 34 place is nice. Plenty of ventilation and dry humidity.
Winter squash: Dry humidity and cool, 50 to 55 is best, but not much colder! Plenty of ventilation. Under a bed or in a closet in the spare closed bedroom is perfect.
Potatoes: Paper bag or perforated plastic in the dark. 38 to 45 is best, but can tolerate warmer but below 38, the starches turn to sugars and they will be sweet. Warm them up and the sugars revert to starched in a week or so. Some humidity is best, hence the perforated plastic.
Below is a more detailed description to storing all of these organic veggies!
Thank you for choosing Local and Organic!
Matt and Jacy
Get in touch with us at:
406-599-2360 Jacy
406-599-2361 Matt