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| Garlic planting! |
Last week began with abnormally warm and spring-like weather and ended with colder days and frosty nights. Thursday was one of the last days of warm weather before the frosts hit over the weekend, and we managed to plant around eighteen beds of garlic for next year! The soil was just the right degree of dryness, and while we broke apart cloves and pinched them into the fluffed dirt, we commented on how rare it was to be planting garlic without our winter coats on. What strange weather we've been having this fall!
The atypical warm weather allowed for savoring our fall greens just a while longer than usual, but last night a heavy frost finally hit, and much of our greens were damaged. This week's CSA share therefore contains less greens and more winter roots--but you'll still get to eat mesclun salad mix and kale!
In Your Share This Week
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| Andy harvesting burdock: Try it out this week! |
Potatoes - Mash them, fry them, roast them!
Kale - So delicious cooked as a topping to baked pasta!
Beets or Carrots! - It'll be difficult to choose between such beautiful, sweet and tasty roots.
Sweet Potatoes - A great addition to soups, stir fries, fried rice--basically any dish!
Mesclun - The frost might kill off the rest of the lettuce, so savor it while you can.
Mixed Roots - Try a different root this week! Choice between sunchokes, burdock, rutabaga, Japanese turnips, winter radishes, parsnips, and purple top turnips.