March 11th
A very cold morning to mark our last Winter Csa for the 2016-2017 season! Hope you enjoyed!
The next few months will have Rick and I working separately as i gear up for my annual Heirloom plant sale and get all the seedlings for the farm going. Rick has quite a few farm projects to keep him busy as well as harvesting for market. It is a very busy time. We are not planning to run the store and our produce will only be available at the market.
It's been a wild ride with getting the greenhouse built around our winter garden with some very cold weather than set in early this year but we got it done! We've had a few wind storms just to test us out a little! While we are happy with how things turned out this year we expect next year to be even better. We'll be in touch with details for our next winter CSA this summer.
In your baskets today:
Chez Nous salad mix
Swiss Chard
Spinach
Kale with kale Buds
Napa with bud also
greens extra: Swiss Chard and Mustard
Just a note about the flower stalks on the kale and Napa. They are similar to prepare as you would asparagus, bending the stalk to see where it cracks...the top is tender and can be cooked without and stringiness and the bottom will be tougher. Last weeks Napa stalk was more tender than this weeks as it was harvested earlier.
Thank you so much for your business!
Shirley and Rick
Chez Nous Farms
A very cold morning to mark our last Winter Csa for the 2016-2017 season! Hope you enjoyed!
The next few months will have Rick and I working separately as i gear up for my annual Heirloom plant sale and get all the seedlings for the farm going. Rick has quite a few farm projects to keep him busy as well as harvesting for market. It is a very busy time. We are not planning to run the store and our produce will only be available at the market.
It's been a wild ride with getting the greenhouse built around our winter garden with some very cold weather than set in early this year but we got it done! We've had a few wind storms just to test us out a little! While we are happy with how things turned out this year we expect next year to be even better. We'll be in touch with details for our next winter CSA this summer.
In your baskets today:
Chez Nous salad mix
Swiss Chard
Spinach
Kale with kale Buds
Napa with bud also
greens extra: Swiss Chard and Mustard
Just a note about the flower stalks on the kale and Napa. They are similar to prepare as you would asparagus, bending the stalk to see where it cracks...the top is tender and can be cooked without and stringiness and the bottom will be tougher. Last weeks Napa stalk was more tender than this weeks as it was harvested earlier.
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| Rainbow and Green Dinosaur Kales have been the first to send up their stalks. |
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| Scarlet Kale (purple) also up with the Red Russian styles behind seem to be next. Green Siberian, Laurels Frilly and Madeley Kales have yet to bud. |
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| Mizpoona in full bloom |
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| Arugula also in flower mode. There is a lot of these in your salad mix this week. The stalks are sweet and the buds spicy! |
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| Baby Kale buds for the salad mix |
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| All kinds of treasures |
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| I will miss this bold mix this summer. |
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| Bowl of flowers in a big bowl of salad mix. Topped every salad bag with a bud or two. |
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| We are grateful for all that was provided by this greenhouse this winter but really anxious to revamp! The beds need to be remade and covered with landscape fabric and all the necessary equipment to tie tomatoes need to be hung. Lots of work! |
Shirley and Rick
Chez Nous Farms
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