Summer 2022 CSA - Week of September 19th

Full share: Lettuce mix, arugula, melon, 3 heirloom tomatoes, lunchbox peppers, broccoli, 2# potatoes, scallions, cilantro, coriander, celery

Half share:  Lettuce mix, melon, 1 heirloom tomato, 1# potatoes, scallions, cilantro, celery

Hello!

Seasonal transitions are really coming now with the Fall Equinox on Thursday. The fall equinox occurs when the sun passes through the line of the equator and all over the world day and night are as close as they get to equal length. Afterwards in the northern hemisphere, nights get longer and days get shorter causing leaves on deciduous trees to change and marking the beginning of fall (fall and spring equinox are opposites in the southern and northern hemispheres). Time to start getting cozy!

With autumn peeping over the horizon, the Rocky Creek side is getting ready for Fall Festival. September 30th is the first official day and we’ll go until the pumpkins run out in late October. Starting the first week of October the market stand will be open Tuesday-Sunday and we’ll have pumpkins and fresh cider for sale along with our usual market stand abundance of fresh produce and flowers and dried and packaged goods from other nearby farms and producers. Until then, market stand hours are still Tuesday 12-6pm, Thursday 3-6pm and Saturday 9-3pm.

Notes

Winter CSA is now on sale! Follow this link to sign up. Winter csa begins the first week of November and runs through January. Only full shares are available. 

Tomatoes are abundant so come into the market stand and load yourself up to process for winter. Never tried canning before? Check out our lending library books for tipson your next visit.

We have a few turkeys left for sale at 6/#. limited supply so get yours soon!

Produce

Coriander: Coriander is a more mature form of the cilantro plant you’ve all been eating (or at least receiving) all season. Cilantro refers to the plant’s younger leaves while coriander is the name for the bolted leaves and the seeds that can be harvested from it. The seeds are incredibly flavorful and can be used green (as they are now) or dried (taken off the plant after it’s been hung upside down in your kitchen for a few days). This article explains a bit more of the difference and includes a few recipes for using your coriander green. Once dried, the seeds are usually used toasted and ground and go great in curries, dal, or whole in pickling and brining recipes. More info here.

Recipes:

Potatoes are back!

  • Transform your CSA into a breakfast hash of potatoes and peppers with an arugula tomato side salad.

  • Roast tomatoes and peppers to form the base of an easy fall soup.

  • Use your scallions and cilantro as the base for a green sauce to slather on roasted potatoes and veg.

Now you’ll hear from greenhouse extraordinaire, Lauren.

Helllooo everyone! My name is Lauren, I am the new (ish, I’m coming up on a year now!) greenhouse manager for GVB! I started last fall and was able to slowly train throughout the winter with Tom so I would be ready for the high tide of work in the summer. I am from Salt Lake City, Utah then went to Bates College in Maine where I studied Environmental Policy. After graduating, I was living back east in the summer and ski bumming at Alta Ski Area in the winters. The whiplash of seasonal living and moving so much was starting to take its toll so I began to look for farm work that was more year round, closer to home (and skiing) and landed on GVB! 

The ebb and flow of farm work happens to coincide beautifully with ski season! Us farmers and the plants work hard in the summers, and need the reprieve of winter to recover and get ready to do it all over again! I have been trying to slow things down and be more present, which is a very welcome change to the rush of summer. Greenhouse work is very independent and rewarding, some of the pictures attached here goes to show just how much progresses over the course of the summer…

(Below is GH 5 late spring… now busting out over 200lbs of heirlooms per harvest!)

(Below is what it looks like now!)

Here’s to a little R&R, pumpkin spice, time with Ellis the sheepdog, and watching ski movies! 

Lauren

Jacy Rothschiller