Week 15, Sept 12 - 17, 2011

In your CSA bag

~ Red Potatoes (1 quart)
~ Cukes (3 pickling)
~ Corn (4)
~ Lettuce (1)
~ Onions (4)
~ Peppers (1 large, 1 jalapeño, 1 mini orange)
~ Chard (1 bunch)
~ Kale (1 bunch)
~ Tomatoes (1 while they last)
~ Flowers U-pick pink/purple (6 stems)

Recipes of the Week
Cilantro Lime Dressing
Corn Salsa

News from the Field

I am so proud to be a Vermonter.  It is wonderful to watch so many different organizations putting together monies and items for the aid of commiunities and the farmers that were so greatly devastated by Hurricane Irene.  I would like to tell you of a few I know of:

• Grants and zero-percent-interest loans are awarded to farmers in need as funds are available.  To donate, please contact Kirsten Bower at the NOFA office, 802-434-4122 ext 16.  To make a donation by check, please mail your tax deductible contribution to the NOFA Farmer Emergency Fund, PO Box 697, Richmond, VT 05477.  Please write on the memo line "for Farmer Emergency Fund".

• NOFA also has an auction on their web site where people can donate items or buy items to raise monies for our flooded neighbors.

• A day care in Waterbury was in need of supplies and after a notice was put on Cambridge's "Front Porch Forum" here are the results:  1) The pre-school has enough materials for its temporary operations; 2) All physical donations are being stored at Lauri Boyden's until the pre-school and other child care facilities can move back into their permanent spaces.

• Brown & Jenkins Coffee has a monetary donation jar and will be working with Lauri on how the money should be allocated.

Sorry to tell you all that our tomatoes have been stricken with "Early Blight" and our season for tomatoes is ending much earlier than we had hoped.  On a good note we will have pumpkins earlier than usual.  So start dressing up your homes with fall decorations.

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Thanks!
Anne