Week 20 & 21 and Winter Share Coming Soon!

Thursday will be our last summer share pickup (the summer share is 22 weeks long).  We will then move on to the "winter share."  For those of you who are interested, the winter share consists mostly of root vegetables and squash that are harvested in the fall and distributed to the shareholders through January or February.  We sometimes get greens and cabbages that are grown and harvested in their greenhouse.  Last year we picked up 12 pounds of root veggies every week.  Sometimes our schedule changed, and we picked up the share every other week (in that case we picked up 24 pounds of root vegetables).  For us, 24 pounds every other week is a lot!!!   But root veggies store a long time so its sort of like stocking up for winter in our house.  Last year I think the root veggies lasted us about a month past the last share pickup.   What I liked about how they organized the winter share last year (and I hope they do it this way again), is that shareholders were able to pick out 24 pounds of whatever veggies they liked.  This is completely different from the summer share where you are given a specific list of what to pick up for that day (substitutions are sometimes offered).  During the winter share, you could pick up 24 pounds of potatoes if you wanted!  Our favorites include potatoes, squash, onions, radishes, carrots, parsnips, apples and cabbage (when it's available). I am definitely looking forward to the winter share :)

Anyway, I would highly recommend for anyone to become a shareholder next year.  It has changed the way we eat and exposed us to a variety of different foods we probably wouldn't have eaten otherwise. And I feel good about supporting a local farm and knowing where my food comes from.

Here is what we picked up the last two weeks:

Week 20

2 red peppers
2 green peppers
1 leek (love these!)
1 spaghetti squash
2 pounds carrots
1 bunch radishes with greens
5.5 pounds apples
1.5 pounds quince (type of fruit that you cook before eating)

*** This was the last week for our fruit share.  We subscribe to a fruit share (20 weeks), summer vegetable share (22 weeks) and winter share which starts in November and will continue through January or February depending on the harvest and how much the farm decides to distribute each week. So we are on our own with fruits and veggies for 2-3 months out of the year.

Week 21

1 red onion
3 green peppers
1 acorn squash
1 bunch tat soi (we like this in salad)
1 bunch tuscan greens (this is new to me!)
2 pounds carrots
1 bunch thyme

Recipes to come!