Monday, September 29, 2008

week 16

Hi CSA friends,

It's fall. Time to eat hearty soups, kale, cabbage, and winter squash. Time to split firewood, plant garlic and mulch the berries. Its Rosh Hashanah, the Hebrew new year, an opportunity for reflection, a new season, a new beginning, an attempt to not repeat last year's mistakes. It is celebrated with lots of sweet foods to ring in a sweet new year, and so this week we will be sharing honey from our hard-working bees with you! After a long summer, our bees present you with bear-shaped bottles of anti-microbial goodness.

For October we will have an array of cold hardy produce including:

Potatoes, winter squash, cabbage, beets, Brussels sprouts, garlic, onions, and newly sprouted greens like kale, arugula, and mustard.

We still have some summer veggies left, but they are winding down: we still have some tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. Special for the next 2 weeks we will have GREEN tomatoes for frying…yes, like the movie. As we take down the tomato vines in the greenhouse to prepare for a crop of winter greens (we hope they'll feed us through the winter, a new experiment this year!), we'll share all of the last un-ripened fruits we uncover so that you too can enjoy this southern treat. Tonight we're trying out a recipe for green tomato cake – we'll let you know if it's good!

In other news, we've been doing lots of haying, carting loads and loads of fresh hay to the chicken coop and to the hillside, where we are mulching the garlic for the winter. It's been quite the project – all the woofers, and Guv, have been sufficiently showered in grass, making for a lot of laughs and itchy skin!


Thanks for being part of this adventure with us, we look forward to seeing you this week!

L'Shanah Tova - we wish you a sweet and happy new year, filled with ear-to-ear smiles and veggies to fill them.

The Teleion Holon party crew

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