Kitchen Garden Journal

This week will be the last share of the season. We are ending distribution a week early because there is simply not enough left in the fields to put together a share.

You have read all about what a difficult fall this has been for us: relentless rains, pathetic yields, crop failures. Despite these difficulties, we have done our best to provide the same quantity and variety of produce you would receive in a normal year. We hope that when you opened your box each week it didn’t look or feel like a bad year. 

We have done this by giving you a greater portion of our harvest than we anticipated and by sending less produce to our farmers market and wholesale customers. Thankfully, since we have many outlets for our produce, there is a certain amount of flexibility built in. We have used this flexibility to keep the share boxes as ample as possible because we truly value the support that you have shown us. 

We hope you understand and support our decision to end early. And we sincerely hope that you will join our CSA program again next season. It has been a real joy to be able to provide you with such a wonderful array of vegetables and herbs over the course of the year. Thanks for sharing this adventure with us.

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1 Savoy Cabbage

2 lbs Fingerling Potatoes

1 bunch Rosemary

1 bunch Leeks

1 bunch Japanese Turnips

1 bunch baby carrots

1.5 lb Gold Ball Turnips

1 bunch assorted cooking greens

Deluxe Items: 

2 lbs Bartlett Pears (Clarkdale Fruit Farms. Deerfield)

2 lbs Mixed Heirloom Apples (Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield)

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1/2 lb Mixed Greens

1 head Treviso Radicchio

1 bulb Fennel

1 bunch Mustard Greens

1 lb Red Meat Radishes

1 lb Cipollini Onions

2 lbs Sweet Potatoes (Next Barn Over, Hadley)

1 bunch Thyme

Deluxe Items: 

2 lbs Macoun Apples (Apex Orchards, Shelburne)

1/2 Gallon Apple Cider (Pine Hill Orchards, Colrain)

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1 Butterhead Lettuce

1 Red Butterhead Lettuce

1 Daikon Radish

1 head Broccoli

1 lb Sweet Peppers

1/2 lb Baby Bok Choy

1 bunch Baby Carrots

1 bunch Scallions

1 bunch Cilantro

Deluxe Items:

1/2 lb Fresh Young Ginger (Old Friends Farm, Amherst)

2 lbs Peaches (Apex Orchards, Shelburne)

This is the Asian share. Some recipe ideas include Asian Chicken Soup with Greens, Quick Vietnamese-style Carrot-Daikon Pickles, Glazed Baby Bok Choy. 

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1 head Cauliflower

1 bunch Red Radishes

2 heads assorted Lettuce

1 head Radicchio

1 bunch Leeks

1 orange Kabocha Squash (Enterprise Farm)

1 lb Beets (Enterprise Farm)

1 bunch Tarragon

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2 heads assorted lettuce

1 head frisee

1 lb broccoli

1 bunch Japanese turnips

1 bunch broccoli rabe

2 heads garlic

a handful of hot chilies

2 lbs golden potatoes

1 butternut squash (Riverland Farm, Sunderland)

1 bunch sage

Deluxe Item: 1 lb Grapes (Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield)

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1 Romaine Lettuce

1 Red Romaine Lettuce

1 bunch French Breakfast Radishes

2 lb Red Thumb Fingerling Potatoes

1 bunch Leeks

1 bunch Thyme & Rosemary

2 lb Multicolor Sweet Peppers

1 lb Summer Squash

1 head Savoy Cabbage

Deluxe item:

3 lbs Honey Crisp Apples (Clarkdale Fruit Farms)

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2 heads Assorted Lettuce 

2 of the last Heirloom Tomoatoes

1 pint Cherry Tomatoes

1 lb Broccoli

2 lb Mixed Sweet Peppers

1 lb Cipollini Onions 

1.5 lbs Orange & Purple Carrots (Riverland Farm, Sunderland)

1 bunch Parsley

Deluxe Items:

½ dozen Sweet Corn (Warner Farm, Sunderland)

2 lbs Red Clapp’s Favorite Pears (Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield)

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2 lb Tomatoes

2 lb Summer Squashes

2 lb Mixed Sweet Peppers

A few Hot Peppers

2 heads Garlic 

3 lbs Red Potatoes (Smiarowski Farm, Sunderland)

1 Tendersweet Cabbage

1 head Lettuce

1 bunch Rosemary

Deluxe Item:

2 lb Peaches (Apex Orchards, Shelburne)

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3 lbs Tomatoes

1 pint Sungold Cherry Tomatoes

1 Butterhead Lettuce

1 Red Butterhead Lettuce

1 bunch Carrots

1 bunch Genovese Basil

1.5 lbs Asian Eggplant (Warner Farm, Sunderland)

1 bunch Thai basil

A few Chilies

2 heads Garlic

1 lb Summer Squashes

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