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This Week’s Share
Garlic Heads
Sweet Potatoes
Baby Turnips
Arugula/Spicy Mix
Curly Kale*
Head Lettuce*
*Floating lotus Farmstead grown produce
Keep track of your share’s for the season! The page is easy to view from a larger screen, the names will be listed by First name with the Last initial. Please let us know if you need help finding yourself!
Please try to do this at home if possible, while we are happy to look up in a pinch, doing this for everyone at sign-in proves a bit tricky
Announcements:
The last week!
For our last week we were able to diversify your last share of the year with some wonderful produce from a farm just down the road, Floating Lotus Farmstead! A trade made possible by the wealth of garlic we grow at the farm each year.
While this is making up for some drought issues and deer issues we had, it is a wonderful opportunity to shine some light on some other awesome growers in our area. The more we can build up our community, farmer’s included, the easier it can be to buy fresh and buy local.
On deck from us, is the delicious sweet potatoes, garlic heads, salad greens, and those cute baby turnips! We will also pull whatever other goodies we may find out for our final harvest week.
Looking back, it’s been quite a record year.
75,000 pounds of produce harvested this year
23,000 pounds of produce donated to local food banks and pantries
For comparison last year we pulled about 60,000 pounds and donated 16,000.
So many fun days to look back on this year, with quite record hauls of produce in a few of them. Thank you all who helped make this happen, it was no small feat!
Ground | Roasts | Livers
Lots of goodies for the winter months!
After our last CSA pick-up our winter hours will continue- By appt only
For updates on Grass-fed meat sales throughout the year, sign up here!
Bulk Lamb- Tentative Dates
Sales Open- December 15
Pick-up at Farm- December 20
Recipes:
Freezing Garlic
Great way to store for over winter!
Freezing fresh garlic is a fantastic option. Here are the best ways to do it:
Unpeeled whole garlic cloves — Place unpeeled garlic cloves directly in the freezer after harvesting or purchasing. When you need to use them, thaw them out, unpeel, and consume.
Chopped and formed into a block — Chop peeled garlic cloves into even pieces. You can form it into a block or any shape you wish, so long as you wrap it very tightly in a plastic bag or wrap. Minced garlic is fine too. Then freeze garlic. When you need to use it, you can grate the frozen garlic and use it as garlic paste or simply break off a piece.
Garlic cloves pureed in oil — Blend peeled garlic cloves in a food processor or blender with an oil of your choice. I like to use a high-quality olive oil. Because the oil won’t freeze completely, you can easily scrape some pureed garlic off for use in cooking.
No matter which method you choose, it’s vital that you freeze garlic as soon as you’re finishing preparing. Don’t put it in the fridge or leave it out, for risk of botulism.
Sourced from Epicgardening.com
COMING SOON:
It is always bittersweet the last week of CSA for us, while we do look forward to some periods of rest, we also start finding ourselves missing the bounty each week on the benches. It does make one appreciate the season’s when they come, strawberries, garlic heads, tomatoes and all those summer treats….distance can make the heart grow quite fond.
Then of course, seeing each of you all ,as you collect goodies each week. It is a treat being able to mingle with a lot of you all during our CSA pick-up’s about food, and all things related. We have a very wonderful farm community filled with fascinating shareholder’s!
Being able to provide quality local food for our community, brings us all a lot of purpose to our days here and we truly appreciate your support. Especially as we all in the farming community, do find ourselves being tasked with how to keep improving our agriculture practices around our entire watershed.
So as we enter into our “off season” here at this farm, we encourage you all to try and Buy Fresh, and Buy local as often as you can!
We will have one more email next week with a quick survey about our 2022 season, and how to improve for next year, we would love hear back. Thanks!
Happy Holidays and New Year!
-The Clagett Crew
Thank you for Supporting our Farm!
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