The last share of the year!
Farm News,
PLEASE RETURN ALL BASKETS and yes BAGS. We have sentimental bags,we actually collect them and thought they would come back. We especially would like to get back 2 bags that had pictures of national parks and a couple from whole foods as well. QUART AND HALF GALLON JARS too need to be returned.
What’s In Your Harvest Basket This Week?
- Potatoes
- Onions
- Winter Squash
- Carrots
- Kohlrabi
- Kale
- Bulls Blood,Sorrel, & Spinach Mix
Cheese Share
- Jalapeno-Crabapple neufchatel, A spreadable soft cow cheese .Only offered here at Red Acre
Fruit Share
- Pecans from Ali’s dads very old tree. As he said to me”You can buy them now my best customer died!
- Apples, a mixed bag of Braeburn,Golden & Fuji certified organic from Gary at Little America Farm in New Harmony
- Honey, as promised every fall fruit share gets a small jar 1/2 pint of honey.This is the good stuff! THEE best there is! No NOTHING in it or done to it.Local. Raw. These bees are living off local rabbit brush,no sprayed fields.It is pricey and getting harder and harder to find.So worth it.I need time and so do you to read all that I have to say about honey.Yes,more to say about then GMO and corn and soy.The BIGGEST aha ,paradigm shift we have had is about what we thought and we wanted to do with bees. I will give you just a bit here. Honey is medicine NOT a sweetener. Use it as such. Our bees are dying off! That’s all I will say for now.
Ideas for Eating, Cutting, Cooking, and Keeping the new stuff:
Not having ever taken Shareholders after the season started I forgot about those who have only been getting shares for 6 weeks.I write about every item in you share basket once each season. I did not write about Jerusalem Artichokes last week because we had all ready had them this season.Just look at any of the previous weeks for what to do with and how to store an item in your basket. That and Salsify in the same basket,sorry I hope you were okay?
Today is the last day for Fall Shares.What a bitter sweet day today is. Grateful we were successful and that it is over. Sad to think that for some of you our paths might not ever cross again. You have become friends to us.
At a time when a lot of the news is grim, we feel blessed to be part of this great experiment in eating with you. We know full well there were days when you pulled that bunch of whatever or clump of ? out of your basket and wondered, “what in the world am I going to do with this!” We know that some of you have pushed yourself to your culinary limits with things like Jerusalem Artichokes , Onion scapes,Salsify and yes more odd greens! And we know that some of you have juggled your schedules and figured out complicated veggie carpools just to be able to pick up your share each week. We know all this takes commitment and we are deeply grateful to you for your partnership – for saying to us, and the world, “Local,clean,nutrient dense,real food matters. Family farms matter. Sustainable agriculture matters. And eating well, eating seasonally, eating as part of a community, matters.”
Thanks for all that you eat.We just can not say enough Thank You. Thank You. Thank You for supporting us and what we do.
Symbria,Lynn and Sara