Week 17, Sept 26-30, 2011

In your CSA bag

• Blue Potatoes – 1 quart
• Spaghetti Squash – 1
• Carrots – 1 bunch
• Collards – 1 bunch
• Lettuce - 1 head
• Onions – 4-5 small
• Chard -1 bunch
• Peppers - 2
• Tomatoes – 1 (until they are gone)
• Herb – choice of 1 - Cilantro, Garlic or Parsley
• Flowers – u-pick your own 6 stems

Recipes of the Week

Cider Glazed Carrots

Collards

Views from the Field

Wow, was the weather like summer last weekend and now the colors are starting to really turn. Autumn in Vermont. People travel from all over the country to see our amazing hillsides splattered with bright fall colors. This week is the Vermont Organic Festival right here at the farm so bring all your friends. We will have:

• Hay wagon rides - free
• Delicious ALL Organic foods (Potato Bar, Soups, Deserts, Apple Crisp, Cider, Flavored Waters, Sausage Sandwiches and Veal Burgers from Applecheek Farm, and organic Maple products and Cotton Candy)
• Music: Fiddler, Prof Fairbanks Miller followed by the amazing “Tammy Fletcher Band”
• Organic Coffees from Brown and Jenkins
• ORGANIC BEER and wine tent, by Stella Notte
• Potato Sack Fashion Show – we have over a dozen contestants of all ages competing
• RAFFLES for several Smugglers Notch Bash Badges and a Valley Dream Farm Fall CSA share and more
• 25+ Vendors showing their crafts and wares (start your Christmas Shopping early and local)
• Farm games and contests like (sack races, seed spitting, apple sauce eating, and carrot peeling)
• Face Painting from the teachers at the Mary Elizabeth Preschool.
• The Mountain Bike River Walk and see all the colors reflected in the water.

If the weather is cool and brisk like they are forecasting it will be great to enjoy an afternoon full of wholesome fun for all ages.

Saturday, Oct 1st, Noon to 4pm

Hope to see you there!

We are almost finished harvesting the potatoes. We have the red skins, blues and golds all in the barn. Remaining are the Whites, fingerlings and the cranberry reds. Looks like it has been a good potato year. It is always hard to guess the yields for the crops below the surface, but so far so good.

Thanks!

Anne