What’s in the box?

tomatoes (medium and large shares)
salad mix
delicata squash
radishes
onions
garlic
dill
peppers
carrots
head lettuce

Notes on the box

First of the winter squash coming to you! Store it out of the fridge. Should keep for a month. The skin of the delicata squash is thin and can be eaten after cooking. You can stuff these squash, but our favorite way to cook them is to cut in half, remove seeds, and cut into half moons and roast them. They can be spiced in so many different ways. They are a favorite around here.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Antares, our cows’ milk manchego style cheese and feta! Both cheeses that are traditionally made from sheep milk. We hope you enjoy these cows milk versions!

Recipes.

Roasted Delicata Squash

Chile Butter Roasted Delicata Squash with Lentils and Spinach Dill Salad

Roasted Radishes With Lemon and Dill - you can add beets to this recipe, too!

On the Farm.

The weather is cooling down and we are seeing some beautiful fall colors coming. All the warm weather crops are wrapping up and we are working on getting storage veggies out of the field. I’m going to repost this info from last week for anyone that may have missed it!

Some folks deliveries are wrapping up! If your box has the LAST BOX message on it and you feel that there’s an error (if you did schedule a hold and it didn’t go through) or any other mix-ups, please contact us! You do have the option of adding more deliveries! Go to your dashboard and click where it says “schedule more deliveries” and you have the option of getting boxes delivered for the remainder of the season. Let us know if you have any questions.

If you are interested in an herbal medicine winter wellness CSA delivery, check out what our friend and neighbor Nancy from Red Clover Herbal Apothecary has to offer. Her herbal shares are really nourishing and healing! Includes Elderberry Syrup, Winter Wellness Elixer, herbal throat spray, and more! Order from Nancy directly and your herbal CSA share will be delivered with your Turnip Rock CSA share.

Want to keep getting a veggie CSA all the way through December?? Our friends at Foxtail Farm have a Winter CSA! You can sign up for that option here. And you can get a Cosmic Wheel Creamery cheese share delivered with it! Local foods in the Upper Midwest during the winter! Keep it going!

What’s in the box?

red peppers
leeks (medium and large)
onions (small)
potatoes
cilantro
green beans
salad mix
head lettuce
tomatoes
carrots
radishes
green top golden beets (medium and large)

Notes on the box

Sorry that we had to send the potatoes in plastic bags. We were out of paper ones. They will store best if you move them into a paper bag and store in a cool, dark place.
The greens of the beets are edible and quite yummy! They sautee quickly and are great with scrambled eggs or with the sliced and sauteed beets.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

This week I included Aquilla that was aged just 3 months and another wedge that was aged a year so that you can see how the flavor develops over time. I like this cheese for a grilled cheese sandwich with a slice of tomato.

Recipes.

Roasted Green Beans

On the Farm.

Some folks deliveries are wrapping up! If you had 16 weeks of deliveries and didn’t schedule any holds, this week will be your last delivery for the season! If your box has the LAST BOX message on it and you feel that there’s an error (if you did schedule a hold and it didn’t go through) or any other mix-ups, please contact us! You do have the option of adding more deliveries! Go to your dashboard and click where it says “schedule more deliveries” and you have the option of getting boxes delivered for the remainder of the season. Let us know if you have any questions.

If you are interested in an herbal medicine winter wellness CSA delivery, check out what our friend and neighbor Nancy from Red Clover Herbal Apothecary has to offer. Her herbal shares are really nourishing and healing! Includes Elderberry Syrup, Winter Wellness Elixer, herbal throat spray, and more! Order from Nancy directly and your herbal CSA share will be delivered with your Turnip Rock CSA share.

Want to keep getting a veggie CSA all the way through December?? Our friends at Foxtail Farm have a Winter CSA! You can sign up for that option here. And you can get a Cosmic Wheel Creamery cheese share delivered with it! Local foods in the Upper Midwest during the winter! Keep it going!

The farm crew worked the whole weekend so that we could go camping on Madeline Island last weekend. It was very amazing and we are so grateful to them! We realized that we hadn’t left the farm for an overnight trip since last year when we went to the same spot! It was a very good time and we are so grateful to the crew for putting in the extra time!

carrot cuties

the root washer was a very fun tool for the students to check out

a visit from Amery 4th and 5th graders

tri-carrot!

the most beautiful days

bringing in the cows

pfffft

tiny one

Alayna and a gourmet lunch of homemade dumplings!

Rusty and Nova

puppy love

<3

unexpected visitor!

a big big BIG THANK YOU to our crew who worked the whole weekend so we could go camping on Madeline Island!

Our first overnight off the farm in a year! We went to the same spot a year ago :)

Next Week.

similar to this week plus
turnips
spinach
dill

What’s in the box?

fennel
carrots
beans
radishes
peppers
basil (medium and large)
oregano
spinach
arugula (medium and large)
onions
tomatoes

Notes on the box.

Notes on the box

We are getting back into some nice leafy veggies this week!
Fennel fronds and bulb are edible. Our kids really love chewing on a frond for the sweet anise flavor. We also like making them into a quick pickle with radishes. See the recipe below for a nice suggestions for cooking fennel.

This time of year with the many many tomatoes that we have, we are roasting them with fresh herbs and eating them with bread, pasta, polenta, rice and beans, or freezing them for later.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese shares.

Garlic Dill Quark and Cygnus, our aged swiss. We don’t have perfect aging conditions for the swiss to develop big smooth lovely holes, so instead we get all sorts of craggy cracks and weird uneven holes, but the flavor is there! Looks aren’t everything, right?!

Recipes.

Pickled Fennel and Radish
1 bunch radishes, rinsed and topped
1 fennel bulbs rinsed and trimmed
1 cup white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
1 cup water
3 tablespoons honey
2 teaspoons salt
2 whole garlic cloves, peeled
½ teaspoon whole mustard seeds (optional)
1. Using a sharp kitchen knife or mandoline, thinly slice radishes into rounds. Then, also thinly slice fennel bulbs and up the fronds to the leafy part. Put the veggies into a canning jar or glass bowl to keep pickles in.
2. combine vinegar, water, honey and salt in a small saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Pour mixture over vegetables in jar.
3. Let the mixture cool. You can serve the pickles immediately or cover and refrigerate for later. The pickles will keep well in the refrigerator for several weeks. They are in best after 5 days

Braised Fennel with Tomato, Green Olives, and Capers

Carrot Pancakes with Salted Yogurt

On the farm.

Apologies to anyone who may have gotten some slimy cilantro last week. We had to harvest it in the rain and it didn’t hold up well in those conditions. We appreciate those that let us know about it and we will try to do better on the next round.

We would like to let you know about our friend Nancy of Red Clover Herbal Apothecary and her Fall/ Winter CSA share that she has available. Here’s what it contains and a link to her website where you can order it. It’s a one time delivery that will be delivered with your CSA share from our farm. I’m a really big fan of all of Nancy’s plant medicines, especially her Herbal Sore Throat Spray. Anytime I feel the smallest tinge of soreness, I give myself a few sprays in a day and it kicks it right out.
This years basic share includes:
Elderberry Syrup
Winter Wellness Plant Extract
Winter Warming Elixir (aka ‘Fire Cider’)
Herbal Sore Throat Spray with Propolis
Cold Season Herbal Tea Blend
Basic Share cost – $75.00
optional add-ons are also available
You can get detailed information about the share and sign-up here: https://www.redcloverapothecary.com/csa/whats-in-the-herbal-csa-box/

Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief at the wonderful seasonal weather we’ve been having. We hope that you all are able to enjoy it! The kids have gone back to school so it really feels like fall is on the way! We wish everyone a safe return to school and hope you are packing some lovely sliced red peppers into those lunchboxes! Fun times on the farm!

Next Week.

potatoes
leeks
lettuce
peppers
wrapping up tomatoes
beans
radishes
winter squash?