Tewksbury Grace Farm

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the second delivery of our Fall CSA…you are in for another share of amazing cool season foods.  When you pick up your share, please be sure to get both of your bags, which will be labeled with your name.  As we write this, the season’s first frost settles upon us…finally putting to rest the last of the warm season crops, like basil, tomatoes and eggplant. We have the rest of the farm snuggled comfortably under frost protection row cover, to extend the growing season for several items that you will continue to receive. A reminder that anything we provide bagged in plastic needs to be refrigerated, and anything in paper (with the exception of shiitake), should be stored at room temperature. This week’s bags will include…

• White and Red Salad Turnips (eat these raw, or only slightly cooked)
• Radishes (you will find a variety bunch, with Daikon, red and gold radishes)
• Kohlrabi
• Head Lettuce (2 different kinds)
• Lime Green Cauliflower (gorgeous)
• Heirloom Tomatoes (we said the last of these delicacies last time, but we were able to find a few more for each share. Use soon.)
• Shell Beans (this is a mix of white Cannellini beans and the Italian Fuoco beans. Follow instruction card stapled to big brown bag. Use soon as fresh shell beans are perishable. Even if the pod begins to degrade, still shell the beans inside. Must be refrigerated until use!)
• Sweet Fry Peppers
• Hon Tsai Tai (tall Asian greens, excellent barely sautéed or raw in Asian salad)
• Fresh Baby Ginger! (follow instruction label. Just harvested from our greenhouse tonight after growing for 7 months.Some aloha right here in central PA. Beautiful!)
• Shiitake (late flush that provided dense, dry mushrooms loaded with flavor.)
• Parsley bunch (very nutritious – eat raw or cooked.)
• Cilantro bunch (harvested before this frost! Excellent in Mexican and Thai cooking.)
• Flat Salad Cabbage (half head each, as these are large, succulent cabbages. Very sweet, loose-leafed and crunchy)

Happy Eating,

Johnny