Adventures and Thoughts of Team Cross

We extended our regular share for 2 weeks into January. This is an added bonus of Harmony Valley! This was the final week until we start back up in May.

Week 32 (or extended week 2) of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following:

• Porcelain Garlic,
• Scarlet Turnips,
• Red Cabbage,
• Red Onions,
• Cipollini Onions,
• Carrots,
• Parsnips,
• Celeriac,
• Beauty Heart Radish,
• Rutabaga,
• Black Radishes,
• Super Chili Ristra,
• Black Beans,
• White Sunchokes,
• Chioggia Beets

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We extended our regular share for 2 weeks into January. This is an added bonus of Harmony Valley! It may have been our biggest share yet!

Week 31 (or extended week 1) of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following:

• Red Savoy Cabbage – 1 large head
• Sweet Scarlet Turnip – 1
• Festival Squash – 2
• Garlic – 2 large heads (?)
• Onions – 18
• Shallots – 7
• Carrots – 54
• Parsnips – 16
• Celeriac – 1
• Beauty Heart Radish – 9
• Red Sunchokes – 19
• Rutabaga – 1 large head
• Sweet Potato – 1 pretty big

Here is a picture of how our carrot drawer looks with 54 carrots in it.

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This is our last regularly scheduled CSA delivery. We signed up for 2 more boxes in January and then are ready to wait until the 2010 season begins!

Week 29 of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following:

• Garlic,
• Red & Yellow Onions,
• Shallots,
• Sweet Potatoes,
• Baby Beets,
• Parsnips,
• Rutabagas,
• Celeriac,
• Beauty Heart Radish,
• Daikon Radish,
• Sunchokes,
• Carrots,
• Red Savoy Cabbage,
• Scarlet Turnip,
• Festival or Kabocha Squash

We had some delicious Butternut Squash soup this week!!

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Week 27 of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following:

• Garlic,
• Red & Yellow onions,
• Sweet potatoes,
• Cipollini onions,
• Parsnip,
• Beauty heart radish,
• Scarlet turnip,
• Festival squash,
• Cabbage,
• Green savoy,
• Tat soi,
• Chicory,
• Carrots

We have two more regular deliveries and we signed up for an extended season of four deliveries in January and February of mostly root veggies.  We also got notice that the 2010 signups have started.  We’ll probably sign up again.  Maybe after a year of experience we’ll be better able to handle all of the vegetables as they come in!

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Week 26 of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following:

• Garlic,
• Red and yellow onions,
• Sweet potatoes,
• Carrots,
• Celeriac,
• Escarole,
• Lettuce,
• Redleaf or Red Boston or Romaine,
• Beauty Heart Radish,
• Collards,
• White turnip/ Sweet Scarlet turnip,
• Arugula or Spinach,
• Salad mix,
• Kabocha Squash,
• Festival Squash

This is the last weekly delivery.  The rest of the season will be every other week.  I think there are 4 more and we just signed up for the “extended season.”  This gives us a lot of root vegetables to get us through the winter!

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Week 25 of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following:

• Porcelain Garlic,
• Red and yellow onions,
• Potatoes,
• Leeks,
• Delicata squash,
• Butternut squash,
• Sweet potatoes,
• Carrots,
• Greenleaf or Romaine lettuce,
• Parsnips,
• Bok choi,
• Fennel,  and
• Red kale

We are starting to come full circle. We have 3 or 4 more deliveries for this season, but we are starting to get some of the vegetables from the spring again! This was also the smallest box we’ve gotten in a long time.

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