- Lacinato Kale
- Leeks
- Shallots
- Potatoes
- Purple Daikon Radish - I'm falling more and more in love with these! Mild, sweet flavor and beautiful lavender starburst within. So good on tacos, burrito bowls, salads, or straight up with dip!
- Mustard Greens - tender bunched mustards from our greenhouses
- Red Cabbage
- Apples - Fuji and Goldrush
- Italian Parsley
- Autumn Frost Winter Squash
- Radish Micro Mix
The cold has been COLD, but they days are stretching inevitably longer (3-4 more minutes every day, 10 hours and 26 minutes of daylight today!). It means we're officially out of the Persephone Period now that we're getting more than ten hours of light, and that's a significant turning point when you're a plant. It's the trigger for many of our overwintered crops to bolt. We often think of bolting as a bad thing, but it's a natural, essential part of a plant's lifecycle in its ultimate hardwired urge to reproduce and make seed. In the case of leafy plants like kale, their impulse to shoot skyward and form flower buds gives us Spring raab. If you're a purple sprouting broccoli plant, the lengthening days trigger you to send neon purple broccoli shoots out of your leafy crown. And if you're an overwintering cauliflower, the end of Persephone induces you to unfurl your tight wrapper leaves and reveal a dense, heavy head of snow white cauliflower to the world. Nothing short of magical!
You'll likely start to see all of these new items in your CSA share next time, by which point the days will be almost 11 hours long! For that part of a farmer's soul that relishes the shorter days of winter and the little bit of respite they offer, the longer days are met with mild reluctance. But the tilt of the earth always prevails and Spring will sweep us off our feet and carry us into the glory of summer, willingly and giddy.
In the meantime enjoy these dense foods of winter, and stay warm!
CSA Sign-Ups are Underway for Returning CSA Members!
We are currently signing up our returrning 2024 CSA membership for the upcoming 2025 season (our "summer season," June through December). If you were a member last year and have not received a sign-up email from us, please be in touch so we can help you get signed up! If you are on our waiting list, we will be contacting you after February 20th when we start sign-ups for new members. If you are not on our waiting list yet and would like to be notified when new member sign-ups begin, add your name here!
