Here’s a sneak peek at Amber’s to-do list this week, we’re staying busy!:
- Harvest for CSA (of course)
- Remove all remaining tomato stakes from the field
- Remove mulch and irrigation from the fields
- Clean out and retire the small cooler for the season
- Harvest all sweet potatoes (about 3,000 lbs…)
- Start breaking apart garlic seed (separating heads into individual cloves) to be planted the last week of October
- Glean and freeze everything we can for the winter!
- End of season meetings with crew members
- Head over to the Milk Pail in Watermill for an annual farm tour of their operation
This week’s box:
- Arugula
- Ovation Mix (mixed greens)
- Lettuce
- Sweet Potatoes
- Sweet Peppers (the last of them)
- Fennel
- Parsley
- Garlic
- Jalapenos
- Long Island Cheese Pumpkin (great for pies and soups, see recipes below, and check out this article in Edible East End!)
This week's recipes:
- Cheese Pumpkin Soup with Sage and Apple
- Farro Salad with Fennel and Arugula (substitute Amber Waves wheat berries for the farro!)
- Sweet Potato Fries with Garlic and Herbs
In the fields to pick:
- We direct seeded a bed of Cosmos flowers that are ready to harvest! You can find them where the sugar snap peas were in the spring.
- Raspberries
- Herb Garden
- The last of the: flowers, lunchbox peppers
This week's fruit share:
- Apples and Pears from Briermere Farms
This week's cheese share:
- Mecox Sunrise from Mecox Bay Dairy
This week's bread share:
- Black Cocoa Loaf from Carissa’s Breads: these one-and-one-half pound black rye loaves are made with bread flour, local rye flour, cocoa, coffee, molasses, yeast, and salt.