In the CSA Share this Week:
- Leeks - last of the season
- Hakurei Turnips - first of the season
- Artichokes - first of the season and extra-early
- Winter Lettuce Mix - last of the season from our greenhouses
- Cabbage Raab - succulent shoots from our overwintered cabbage
- Purple Sprouting Broccoli - a mountain of it :)
- Spinach - a double share, great for cooking
- Cauliflower - monster heads
- Micro Mix
- Painted Purple Potatoes
It's a parade of purple, green and white this week as winter meets spring on the farm. We're saying farewell to certain winter staples, like leeks, but a happy hello to hakurei turnips, our first artichokes, purple sprouting broccoli and spinach galore. We've been having a weeknight dinner love affair with winter cauliflower the past two weeks, thanks to some stellar recipes from NY Times Cooking. I highly recommend these two, which will put your massive head of cauliflower to good use this week:
- Cauliflower Piccata - lemony and capery roasted cauliflower with a protein kick that comes from beans of your choice (chickpeas or cannelinis), five stars!
- Spiced Chickpeas with Roasted Cauliflower, Potatoes and Lemon - our household went wild for this one. Definitely in the favorites folder now!
This is motherlode week for purple sprouting broccoli. You can keep it as simple as a quick steam, or roast at high heat with olive oil and salt. Or you can take it to the next level with any kind of recipe that calls for broccoli.
Field Updates
We're using these next few sunny days to get our first wave of transplants into the ground. We typically start transplanting outdoors the first week of April but it looks like we're gonna get rained out next week. Oregon Department of Agriculture's long-range forecast called for a warmer and drier February/March and a colder and wetter April, which might just prove true. That makes it a little trickier for us to get plants in the ground as spring gets underway but we'll be grateful for some "normal" Oregon weather after such a bizarre, warm "winter." With any luck, it might add up to some late hail mary snow in the Cascades, which is desperately needed for water supplies in other parts of the state.
CSA Shares are Almost Gone: Only ONE Harvest Basket Left!
If you want to sign up for the upcoming 2026 CSA season you'd better activate your fast twitch muscles! There's only ONE HARVEST BASKET LEFT FOR THE SEASON and we expect to wrap up CSA sign-ups this week. If you've already signed up, THANK YOU! Remember, April 15th is the payment deadline for all CSA shares, including: Monthly Pay Plan deposits, Paid in Full Harvest Baskets and Abby's Greens Salad Shares. You can check your order status by logging in to https://valley-flora.localline.ca/csa.
Checks can be mailed to: Valley Flora, PO Box 91, Langlois, OR, 97450
Thanks for being part of our 2026 season!
