What's in the box.

butternut squash
cilantro
bag of onions and garlic
potatoes
carrots
savoy cabbage
storage cabbage
collards
spinach
beets

Notes on the box.

Squash, onions, garlic, and potatoes should be stored outside of your fridge. Onions, garlic, and potatoes will store best in a cool and dark area. I'm sure every flat surface of your kitchen is covered in squash at this point (bumper crop!) but it makes a decoration in other parts of your house until you are ready to eat it. Everything else will store best inside your fridge.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

A new cheese this week! The Milky Whey is similar to creme fresh and I have added some honey from our farm and some fresh Organic Lemon to flavor it. It's very nice with deserts! We have had it on its own, with toasted nuts and fruit in the morning, and it truly shines as adollop on top ofcarrot cake or a chocolate ginger tart! That was pretty heavenly. Also, if you can get your hands on some Raincost Crisps (the crackers with nuts and dried fruit baked into them) you have a match made in heaven.

And finally we sent a wedge of our Circle of the Sun which is a farm original and a favorite of mine. It's very versatile and easy to eat. I was really happy when I brought some to an event a couple of weeekends ago and I got to see a very knowledgeable cheesemonger and Certified Cheese Professional do a nice little freak-out when she tasted it. Hope you enjoy! If you want to get some cheese during the winter from us, we are offering cheese shares through Foxtail Farm's Winter Share. The cheese share is wait listed right now, but once I get a few more people on the wait list, I will make cheese shares available to those folks. Otherwise, we will be attending Mill City Winter Markets duringNovember and December and sporadically after that. Also will attend Neighborhood Roots Winter Markets. I will post the dates on the Cosmic Wheel Web site and on our Facebook page.

Recipes.

Colcannon

Curry Roasted Butternut Squash and Chickpeas

Creamy Cilantro Lime Slaw so good with tacos!

Collards, Cornmeal, and Sausage Soup

On the Farm.

The last vegetable delivery of the season! Whew! Now we get to buckle down and catch up on paperwork and book-keeping and house cleaning! Since we don't have any snow we will be able to get field cleanup done. Our cover crops are looking really great and since the cows are still grazing, we are still making cheese! We also have another building project going on. Our inspectors have required an update to our cheese making room, so that's a pretty big and unexpected project happening. Kind of an unexpected and expensive pain, but in the end it will make cheese making life easier, so it's not too bad. We are enjoying focusing on our cheesemaking and expanding that side of our business as we also focus on making our vegetable business more intensive andwe are seeing the benefits of really building our soils. At the end of every season we reflect and try to improve upon where our weak areas were the season before. We try to balance the needs and wants of our members with the needs and abilities of our land and ourselves. We are always looking to improve and make our business and farm more sustainable and resilient.

We couldn't do any of this without our amazing crew. This season our peak season crew included Hannah and part time help from Miranda, Anna, and Andrew, We also struck gold again this year with Aimee, Liberty, and of course Haley.

Aimee has been such a dedicated worker and very giving of herself working 6 days a week for the whole season! She always has a great attitude and adds so much fun to the crew. Otto and Sadie will be especially sad to see her go as the season ends.

Liberty has been a truly phenomenal livestock manager often working 7 days a week since the cows don't take a day off of milking! She also helped with veggies on heavy harvest and box packing days. We are so happy that Liberty will be joining us again next season and she is learning cheese making!

And our dear dear wonderful Haley who has been with us for 3 years now! She has been the glue for the last few years managing the vegetable operation beautifully and gracefully. Her smiles lighting up the fields with her smile and knowing just what the plants need. She is moving on and exploring a new profession, and we will miss her so much! But we hope she will be back to visit often and we hope she will join us sometimes in the field when she needs a little time in the dirt. Haley, we can't thank you enough for all that you have given us and the farm over the years. We love you very much!!

Finally, we have to give a big big big THANK YOU to YOU! We don't exist without those of you committed to local foods directly from your local farmers. We know there are many options out there for getting local foods at your co-op or farmers market, and we know there are many options to get food delivered to you now with meal services. We also know there are a lot of CSA farms out there and we are so glad that you joined us this season. If you felt like we were a good fit for your needs, we will be opening sign-ups for next season in early 2017. We have had members with us since we started our own farm in 2009 and some of you since before that when Josh started the CSA at MFA in 2006! Your commitment means the world to us and we are grateful to be able to provide you and your families with food that nourishes you and is grown with respect for the environment, the animals, the people, and the soil involved. Thank you again and again!