Tewksbury Grace Farm

Late Summer Greetings CSA Friends!

It’s finally here, your first CSA delivery of gorgeous produce and other Tewksbury Grace Farm items! This has been pretty decent farming season for us: started off dry, then got quite wet, and now we’re back to being a bit dry. We roll with Nature’s punches! And we have some new and tasty items for you this year…..first is our very own organic potato chips !!! Boasting a variety of unusual potatoes, cooked in local, organic canola oil and seasoned with salt, pepper and rosemary. We are excited to offer you this new farm snack! Also, you are getting the first of the heirloom tomatoes (they took their sweet time this summer), and they are delicious. The snap beans are to die for…so tender…just need to be barely sautéed in a bit of butter or olive oil. We had a perfect small flush of shiitake over the weekend, and are pleased to get you some on the first delivery (the shiitake logs were temperamental this year, and did not perform well during the dry spring). As usual, it was quite challenging growing our winter squash, as we contend annually with serious pest issues…but we managed to get a small crop, one of which is included in this delivery.

NOTE: you are receiving frozen berries in your bag this week…please plan on picking up your bags asap so you can get them back in the freezer (if not using right away). This year we vacuum sealed the raspberries (what a gorgeous trio of colors) to keep them perfect.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE!: Every delivery, each member will have TWO (2) bags with your names labeled on them. Make sure to get BOTH bags with your name.

We have lots of great items in store for you as the fall progresses – salad greens (and you know how incredible our salad mix is, eh?) are in the ground now after the heat of summer, the Brussel sprouts are growing tall, the popcorn is drying on the stalk, the Hawaiian ginger is fattening up, the sweet potatoes are vining like mad…..oh yeah, it’s gonna be a dynamite CSA this year!

You will find several tags on your food this week, describing the contents and how you should eat them – please read so you know how to ensure the heirloom tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are ripe. These are this week’s tasty items:

• ·Shiitake – sooo tasty simply gently sautéed in butter with seasoning.
• ·Frozen red, black and gold raspberries
• ·Microgreens
• ·Sungold cherry tomatoes – sweetly addictive; mixed ripeness
• ·Rhubarb jam (Leah’s favorite)
• ·Red and yellow onions
• ·Red hot pepper (in with onions)
• ·Potato assortment
• ·Rosemary potato chips!
• ·Snap beans (mostly Rattlesnake variety, with a few Golden Bacau)
• ·Carrots
• ·Carnival sweet dumpling winter squash (very colorful and very sweet variety…don’t let this be a table ornament!! These are delicious cut in half, deseeded, patted with butter and seasoning and roasted to perfection).
• ·Basil and rosemary bunch
• ·Heirloom tomatoes (drum roll!. Read instruction sheet with bag if not familiar with heirlooms).  Mixed ripeness.

For home deliveries, please remember to have your large cooler ready with an ice pack. We look forward to providing you with the best in local, organic fresh and value-added foods. Wave if you see the farm’s little green car zipping around Lewisburg or Muncy!

Much aloha,

Leah and Johnny

P.S. included in your bag is a unique and lovely Turkish Orange eggplant. While these are not good eating and are considered more ornamental, we wanted you to be as impressed as we were by this vibrantly colored fruit!