Week 22 October 7th (WED) 2026

7 days ago

4 min read

Thank you for participating in our Fall Party and/or for being a part of our Crop Share program this season!

We have just three more weeks of our main season CSA! We offer two extensions to your Crop Share this year, sign up for both is open now. the Fall CSA includes four weekly Crop Share deliveries during November.

the Holiday CSA Box is a single delivery the second week of December to stock up for the winter. The holiday box is entirely customizable or you can choose the farmers choice box, we'll get your order closer to December for this one.

Fall and Holiday CSA boxes can be added to your order by logging in to Farmigo here and ordering these add-ons. You can pay via Farmigo or by check, credits and SNAP benefits can be used. Contact us if you have any questions.

Enjoy!

Our Fall Harvest Potluck Party was a warm and enchanting day of food, land connection and fun. Some highlights for us farmers included getting to talk with CSA members we have never met, witnessing mixed aged children helping each other make discoveries in the field, seeing the joy on faces after eating fresh picked strawberries in October, learning that our neighbor farmer can tear up a plywood dance floor tap dancing to blue grass, and having help from young participants in announcing the winners of the potluck.

Best Use of Vegetable 1st - pepper artichoke dip 2nd - potato celeriac fritters

Best Sweet 1st - chocolate cake with kabocha squash cream cheese frosting, 2nd - home grown apples and spice ; tied with Pumpkin Maple Cornbread

Best Savory 1st- Tri-Tip, 2nd - Tikka Chicken

What's In My Box?

The difference between small and fulls this week is that smalls do not have potatoes and have less weight of some items.

small share/ full share

Carrots 3/4 lb

Lil' Gem 1 ct

Purple Kale 1 bu

Sweet Bell Peppers ~3/4 lb - 1lb

Red Hot Aji Rico Peppers ~ 1/4 lb Mild-to-medium heat (similar to a jalapeño), with the spice concentrated mostly in the seeds

Red onions 2 ct

Green tomatoes 3/4 lb

Red Kuri Squash 1 ct

White Potatoes ~3/4 lb, fulls only

Salad lovers only salad add-on -Salanova with Frisee Radicchio and Lil Gem Mix

Eggs for egg lovers add-on

Summer shares, salad lovers and egg lovers shares go through the last week in October.

November delivery Add-on: To continue your vegetable crop share through November (4 more weekly deliveries, up to Thanksgiving) login to your Farmigo account here and order the Fall Share Add-on.

December delivery Add-on: To continue your produce delivery into December, sign up for the customizable one drop Holiday Box ( Farmigo account link).

Aji Rico Pepper Corn Bread

Recipe and photo from Brooklyn Farm Girl The recipe link uses Jalapeno, but its a nice moist recipe-- sub jalapenos for aji rico for a more interesting taste and look. Remove seeds for a milder spice.

Sauteed Green Tomatoes and Peppers

Recipe and photo from Food.Com

Roasted Red Kuri Squash Recipe and Photo from Feasting at Home

CSA Member Calendar

First Summer CSA Delivery

Wednesday May 13/Friday May 15

First Egg Delivery

Week of July 22 - October CSA Member U-Pick Drop In Times Late Aug-Early Sept

CSA Harvest Potluck and Party

Saturday October 3rd at 3pm

First Fall CSA Delivery

Wednesday November 4th

Holiday CSA Box Delivery Wed. Dec. 9th & Fri. Dec. 11th

ABOUT PICKING UP YOUR CSA

Bring your own bag. Pick up at your pickup location and day (Wednesday or Friday) from 12-6pm. If you ordered an add-on, it will be packed in a separate labeled tote.

HOW TO PICK UP YOUR CSA

#1: Sign-in! the golden rule

Find & Sign-off your name on the sign-in sheet each week and please ONLY take the items listed next to your name.

This vital step helps ensure everyone goes home happy, including our site hosts and farmers, week after week.

#2: Locate your shares

Boxes are labeled as Small or Full. Summer Salad Lover Add-on shares are in a large tote labeled "Salad Add-ons"

#3: Unpack your tote & stack the empties

Please bring your own reusable shopping bag to transport your items - we’ll pick the totes up next week for reuse! We can use them for multiple seasons, reducing waste one box at a time.

USING THE WEEKLY SWAP BOX?

Swap boxes are green with flowers painted on them. Swap boxes are labeled and will stand out! If your pickup site has a swap box, please feel free to swap an item you may not want in your box with an item in the provided and specifically-labeled SWAP BOX. Please limit the swaps to one item for one item per week.

UNABLE TO FIND AN ITEM?

(Please do not supplement it with something else!) Contact the farm directly before taking something else. The sooner you reach out the sooner your item may be located.

SOMEONE ELSE PICKING UP FOR YOU?

(Please share all the details of how to pick up with them BEFORE they attempt to pick up -- BYO bag, take from the right size box, check off the right name). Friends and family picking up for others is the number one cause of pickup mistakes, and we thank you in advance for your consideration.

CSA FAQS PAGE

Since our hands are often tied up with roots, soil or kids we keep this information on our CSA FAQS web page.

VACATIONS

Every CSA member can put their share on hold in trade for a $20 credit per week, up to two. Login to your account and select your vacation dates or email us. Please request your vacation at least three days in advance to receive the credit.

REDEEMING YOUR VACATION CREDIT

Go to our Online Store to see availability for add-ons this week and to double check the value of your credit. You'll need to login to see your credit amount. In the 2025 season you can use your vacation credits to purchase add-ons electronically or apply the credit to a Fall Share. But as always, you can also just email the farm. Thanks!

NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Your current season of newsletters and many of our newsletters back to 2012 are on our website here. Find recipes from previous seasons. Friday CSA members can go to this link on Wednesday and see what this week's CSA has to offer.