Winter Share, Week 1, Dec 6, 2012

This Week’s Vegetables: 

• Potatoes – Blues - 5lbs 
• Squash – 1 acorn, 1 butternut, 1 pie pumpkin (u can cook & eat the pumpkin just like butternut squash) 
• Carrots – 2lbs 
• Turnips (gold) – 2lbs 
• Beets (red) – 2 lbs 
• Brussels Sprouts – 1lb 
• Onions – 2 lbs 
• Cabbage – 1 head 
• Kale – 1 bunch 
• Lettuce - 1 bag 
• Garlic – 2 small

Regular members will pick-up or be delivered again in two weeks, on Dec.20th. Single and senior size members will receive their next box on January 3rd. 

Recipes and Tips:

Winter Squash Tips

Gold Turnip and Onion Casserole

Shredded Beets and Cabbage

Kale recipes

... more at valleydreamfarm.com

Hello & Welcome Members,

This is the first week for CSA Winter Season!

You are receiving this while we are in sunny Florida. It started like this, Jay bought a time share in Orlando so he could force us to take an annual family vacation. I am not saying it is a bad thing at all. I kind of like being forced on a vacation. Only wish the whole family was joining us. Jon our youngest has to stay home, to keep working at this new job. Some years we trade it with the RCI exchange and go further south where it is slightly warmer. This year we decided to return to Orange Lake our home resort. Then my sister called and had vouchers for a cruise ship that would expire if not used, so Ashley, Becky, and Kevin (Beck's boyfriend) are taking Jay for the weekend (Party Central) while Joe and I go on a little 4 day cruise. I am so darn excited. We all are! First stop Harrisburg PA then onto Chattanooga, TN, then Orlando bound. A week there and ending with a cruise before we drive back. That should take the stress right out of the Holiday rush. I will be thinking warm thoughts of all of you back in Vermont.

Things run slightly different for the winter CSA, the farm store is closed, yet deliveries are still on Wednesdays and Pick-up at the farm is on Thursdays from 5-6 pm in our heated storage room. (this is the same place as last year for returning members.) For new members it is on the Irish Settlement Rd-side of the barn past the greenhouse and silos and through the white paned door beside the loading dock. Enter and take a right into our heated dry storage area. We will light it up and label it for you!

Winter Squash has a much shorter window than potatoes, so what we recommend is for you to use them in the next week or two and then cook the remaining ones (I bake/roast for an hour or so, until brown), then cut in half, remove pulp, seeds, and skin while still warm. Mash or puree the flesh and then freeze them in zip-loc type bags for the best quality all winter long.

Winter shares has us digging most of your vegetables from our winter storage bins and cooler. We have included a how best to store your veggies when you get them home. There are many recipes on our web site if you need a new idea on how to fix up your veggies. You can look them up at www.valleydreamfarm.com or on our recipe blog.

We are now looking forward to 2013! WE will soon be flipping through the seed catalogs. Tell us if you have a favorite variety that we should order. 

Enjoy your veggies and Have a great Holiday Season!

Anne