Welcome to 2023!

Just a little orientation for new members and reminder for returning members… please only take the box with YOUR NAME on the label. Can’t find your box and you are sure you are supposed to have one delivered that week? Text or Email us and we will work quickly to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it. Mix-ups sometimes happen on delivery and sometimes someone grabs the wrong box. In any case, we will do our absolute best to make it right. Boxes need to be picked up on Thursday! If you aren’t able to make it on thursday, you need to let your host know and see if they can make it available for you to pickup the next day, but there are no guarantees that your share will be there if not picked up on Thursday.

Cheese shares are kept all together at each drop site in a box with a freezer pack to keep cheese cool. The box will be labeled “cheese”. Please don’t grab the whole box! There’s a list of the people that ordered cheese shares in the box. DO NOT take a cheese share unless your name is on that list. After you get your cheese share, be sure to close the box to help keep things cool for other members. Shortcut… if you signed up for cheese every other week and aren’t sure if you have cheese to pickup that week, check the label on your CSA box. If you have cheese to pickup, your name label will say Cheese share. If no cheese, it won’t be listed on the label. If there was an error, let us know ASAP and we will do our best to make it right. If your name is on the list, but no cheese was in the box, let us know and we will make it up to you. Also, if you have any insulated liners you’d like to pass along to us, please do! You can leave them at the drop site and we will gladly pick them up and reuse them!

For everyone! We reuse the boxes! You may bring your box home and return it the next week when picking up your share, or you can bring a bag to transfer your produce into and leave the box at your drop site. Please flatten the box and stack neatly to help make things easier for the dropsite host.

What’s in the box?

Notes on the box

It’s big salad time! There’s a lot of greens and lettuces in this box. Our greens are washed before we send them out to you, but you should still give head lettuces and things like bok choy another washing because dirt gets trapped between leaves in a way that’s not possible to clean until you pull leaves apart. We recommend getting them well washed and bagged/ put into containers as you are unpacking your share at home. This way things are cleaned off and ready to go and you are much more likely to eat them! So plan on at least a side salad with each meal, or a big salad for dinner a couple of times.

Green garlic is a nice spring treat. You can use it as you would scallions, but it will have a garlic flavor. Great on tacos or rice bowls or minced and made into garlic butter.

What should you do with that fresh dill? We like to add it to salads to add some nice bursts of flavor. Also great chopped and sprinkled on top of scrambled eggs or salmon. You can also chop it up and mix into plain greek yogurt with a little lemon juice, minced green garlic, and salt to make a super simple and yummy dip. We love it with potato or pita chips, but it’s also very good with other carrots, radishes, or any other veggies that you might like to snack on.

Remember to always remove the tops from root veggies for storage. The tops of the radishes are edible and you can use them to add a bit of spicy kick to your salad mix, or you can make them into a pesto with the arugula and green garlic.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese shares

I started us off with two of my most favorite cheeses. Circle of the Sun is a farm original that I love to make. It’s a super simple cheese make that lets the quality of the milk shine. This batch was made Spring of 2022 right as the pasture was coming in. I’ve also included some Garlic Dill Quark which is one of my most popular cheeses when I go to farmers market. It’s fantastic on crackers, but one of my favorite ways to enjoy it is on a slice of baguette with thinly sliced radishes. It’s also super great as a spread on a wrap style sandwich. Truly you can eat it on just about anything and it’s delicious.

Recipes

Sauteed Baby Bock Choy
Pull leaves from stem and wash off any dirt that might be hiding near the base of the bock choy (if you aren’t seeing dirt there, you can cut each head into quarters lengthwise). Heat a tablespoon of neutral oil in a pan. Add thinly sliced green garlic, minced fresh ginger, some soy sauce, and clean bock choy leaves to the pan and sautee till stems of leaves are tender-crisp. Great as a side dish or in ramen soup or as part of a stirfry (if adding to stirfry, add at the end as it cooks quickly).

Cheesey Stovetop Barley and Rainbow Chard by Martha Stewart

Rainbow Chard Quiche by Martha Stewart

Arugula, Green Garlic, and Walnut Pesto by Dishing up the Dirt

On the farm

Welcome to the 2023 season of Turnip Rock Farm! We are excited to be getting deliveries out again! It was another interesting spring with a little heat wave followed by a loooong drawn out period of cool weather. It made for lots of waiting for the soils to be warm enough to plant and made us quite happy to have a few high tunnels so that our season didn’t have to start too late. We are super excited and lucky to have our full farm crew returning! Everyone is back at it like pros!

We know it’s really the growing season when we get to share the farm with students from Lucy Laney at the Kids At The Farm Day that we are lucky enough to host. A HUGE thank you to those that contributed money to help make the field trip happen. Students got to learn about growing veggies, sheep and lambs, baking bread, making cheese, local reptiles and amphibians, and honeybees! It’s one of our very favorite days on the farm and such a delightful way to start the season!