Winter CSA: Week 10

Scary climate situation... This past week we were able to pick some kale from the field and this coming week low actual temperatures approaching zero F have been forecasted. These large swings drive us and the crops of food crazy on the farm. We'd be happy with a snowpack for dormant crops in the field (and to regenerate the aquifer) and temps in the twenties to freeze out summer pests. We'll see what the weather brings to the coming weeks of harvests but first what's in this week's share:



Winter salad mix



Mustard greens (use in place of zesty arugula)



Miner's salad/claytonia (get your weekly dose of vitamin C)



Kale mix



An open pollinated version of Komatsuna which has a nice flavor between a mustard green and a kale. (Open pollinated means if we let these plants flower and "go to seed" after the winter CSA program is over, which we do, the seeds we save can be planted and we will pretty much get the same plant variety again. Believe it or not but many of the seeds growers use including some of the seeds we use don't work that way (which isn't necessarily a bad thing e.g. F1 seeds but is another story for later). On Brines Farm we are working in more open pollinated seeds because we are saving more and more of our own seeds.)



Hakurei turnips (I can't get enough of these personally, but we'll have a couple more weeks and then a break from them)



Winter squash again - maybe one more next week and then thats it for squash, another summer crop that took a hit from the drought