Week 8 of 26: The harvest is back, but still no good rain

Main Season CSA Pick-up Schedule

Wednesday -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

This Week’s Share

Green Onions
Garlic Heads
Tomatoes
Eggplant
Baby Bell Peppers
Shallots
Chard | Basil | Parsley

Farm Updates

Welcome back!
It seems June has passed us by for the 2024 season, bringing barely any rain. It has been a tough challenge keeping up with irrigation and managing other tasks that seem much harder in this heat and dry soil. We're all eagerly awaiting a good summer rain shower or three.

Despite the drought, we managed to check some big items off our to-do list during the break. You may notice some fields have transformed. As we have lightly tilled the spring fields that have finished their season to prepare for summer cover crops and new fall greens fields. And our second wave of tomatoes has been mulched, and posts are going up with twine.

Quite a few crops like the eggplant and peppers, are thriving on their irrigation schedule. You will see as you drive along that most crops are receiving water regularly through our black drip lines that we run alongside crops to drip water more efficiently.

We are enjoying the high tunnel tomatoes, as they continue to produce abundantly. They also seem like they are overlapping nicely with our field tomatoes, which should start ripening soon.

But the potatoes will need more time to grow due to the lack of rain, so we'll let them size up for about another two weeks before revisiting them.

In this drought, our usual spot for sunflowers turned into a deer buffet, as sunflower sprouts being watered regularly are quite tasty. We'll be reseeding them and planning for a Fall debut inside our new deer fence. Maybe with more winter squash that they also are starting in on next. We will be putting an electric fence here to see if we can send the message that some crops are just off limits. Stay tuned.

Despite the challenges the weather is bringing us…and the deer, the farm is still producing a tremendous amount of food and we look forward to keep sharing that with you all for the remainder of the season!

U-pick

U-pick Hours: Monday- Saturday 9:00=6:00p.m. Closed Sundays

  1. The larger annual herb and flower field (Also referred to as Field G2)
    Parsley
    Basil: Italian (regular),
    Thai Basil (    purple flowers) ,
    Holy Basil (    Light white/purple flowers)- do not cut down to the ground, just top third section to allow to regrow all season.
    Cut Flowers- Cosmos, snapdragons are blooming, you may also see some marigolds and salvias starting to bloom this week

  2. Directly in Herb Garden next to CSA pick-up
    Starting from the first oval brick bed nearest the picnic table, these herbs are ready to pick- Please ask if you would like a demo on how to cut best:

  • Oregano

  • Thyme

  • Dill

  • Lemon Balm

  • Mint

  • Sorrel

  • Rosemary - go easy; they are still young plants, but a few snips would help them bush out more fresh tips!

Any flowers you see are up for grabs, just be mindful that we are a community sharing this space and opportunity.

More from the Farm

Grass-Fed Beef and Lamb cuts & Honey
Available now while supplies last

There is still time to secure a bulk 25 pound variety pack of beef at just $12/lb.!!!

While it is undergoing some renovations, the farm store is open during all Clagett CSA pick-ups for walk-in purchases with cash/credit card and for pre-order pick-ups

Remote Shareholder’s: Have your pre-order’s delivered to your next CSA pick-up! Select your CSA site at checkout to request, and we will reach out to confirm via email.

-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org, or checking in with staff at pick-up!

If you wish to add additional emails to receive this email each week, subscribe here.

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 7 of 26: Our last week before break

Main Season CSA Pick-up Schedule
NO SHARE NEXT WEEK

Wednesday -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

This Week’s Share

Green Onions
Red Onions
Garlic Heads
Tomatoes
Carrots | Beets
Cucumbers
Summer Squash

NO SHARE NEXT WEEK

Farm Updates

Things are certainly getting dry, and this week we are seeing the Brassica family (Kale/Collards) say their farewell as they are just not built for this heat! We are really hoping for this to break soon but everything is holding on through some carefully coordinated irrigation schedules. Which things like our next set of field cucumbers photographed above very happy.

This week, while we see spring fade, we are easing into summer crops with our first batch of onions and a healthy start of garlic heads to get you going for the season. And those high tunnel tomatoes are becoming quite the bounty!

What a fantastic treat they have been, trickling in a few weeks earlier than our field tomatoes, which already have green tomatoes!

The first onions we will pick—we are going to keep the tops intact as they will provide you with more green onion tops to use as chives. Did you know you can freeze them once chopped up? Then, when you need them, simply pull them out and sprinkle towards the very end and watch them thaw out and steam up beautifully to garnish any dish you’d like.

Garlic is also something that is going to come in handy and can be stored for some time now that we have started the curing process. Simply put these heads in a cool, dark, dry environment, and they will last quite a few weeks at this point. In a bit, the garlic that is still curing in the barn will be even better for storing for a longer period of time.

When we get back from our week off of harvest, we will start seeing more of summer show off its stuff with potatoes being on the harvest list for when we return. So let’s all take a deep breath, clear out those storage spaces, canning jars, load up on freezer bags, and get ready for the bounty.

NO SHARE NEXT WEEK

U-pick

U-pick Hours: Monday- Saturday 9:00=6:00p.m. Closed Sundays

  1. The larger annual herb and flower field (Also referred to as Field G2)
    Parsley
    Basil: Italian (regular), Thai (    purple flowers) , Holy Basil (Light white/purple flowers)- do not cut down to the ground, just top third section to allow to regrow all season.
    —Flowers are waking up in the field: you will find cosmos, snapdragons starting to bloom

    This is all located on the black landscape fabric you may have noticed expanding over the last week or so across the larger parking lot with the mulch piles that are now shrinking in size, making room for closer parking.

    Mind the rows of zinnias and cilantro growing alongside the fabric portion!!!

  2. Directly in Herb Garden next to CSA pick-up
    Starting from the first oval brick bed nearest the picnic table, these herbs are ready to pick- Please ask if you would like a demo on how to cut best:

  • Oregano

  • Thyme

  • Lemon Balm

  • Mint

  • Sorrel

  • Rosemary - go easy; they are still young plants, but a few snips would help them bush out more fresh tips!

Any flowers you see are up for grabs, just be mindful that we are a community sharing this space and opportunity.

More from the Farm

There is a huge buzzzzz in the farm store, 2024 Honey Harvest has begun!

For those that do not know, we have 14 hive’s located at the farm, starting with 6 in 2021. Each year they not only provide us with this golden treat, but they also aid in pollinating our vegetable crops!

Honey Available in half pound (8oz) and pound (16oz) bottles

While it is undergoing some renovations, the farm store is open during all Clagett CSA pick-ups for walk-in purchases with cash/credit card and for pre-order pick-ups

Remote Shareholder’s: Have your pre-order’s delivered to your next CSA pick-up! Select your CSA site at checkout to request, and we will reach out to confirm via email.

-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org, or checking in with staff at pick-up!

If you wish to add additional emails to receive this email each week, subscribe here.

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 6 of 26: Rain please come back

Main Season CSA Pick-up Schedule

Wednesday -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

This Week’s Share

Green Onions
Green Cabbage
Beets
Arugula
Carrots
Fennel
Cucumbers
Kale | Collards | Swiss Chard
Summer Squash

Farm Updates

The weather has certainly shifted, as we head into another week here at the farm with no rain in sight. That early wet spring seems like a distant memory.

We are experiencing over 90-degree days this week, and our crops, crew, and irrigation systems are going to be put to the test as we officially kick off summer. It's a challenging time, but so far, we have been managing to keep up with all the big tasks of summer to get started on good footing.

These next two weeks, as the heat intensifies, you will notice shares dwindling in those tender cool-season greens. These greens are quite sensitive to high temperatures, so savor them while they are still here! They are a true taste of spring, and their presence will be missed as we transition fully into summer. However, get ready because when we return, you’ll start seeing those summer favorites pouring in through July and August. Tomatoes, potatoes, onions, peppers, eggplants, and more will soon be making their way to your table, bringing the vibrant flavors of summer with them.

Please note again, we will be taking off the week of July 4th! This brief pause is essential for our team and crops to regroup and prepare for the peak summer season.


Enjoy the current bounty, and get excited for the delicious summer produce that's just around the corner!

U-pick

U-pick Hours: Monday- Saturday 9:00=6:00p.m. Closed Sundays

  1. The larger annual herb and flower field (Also referred to as Field G2)
    Parsley
    Basil-    please only pinch the tops of the plants until they are more established!

    This is all located on the black landscape fabric you may have noticed expanding over the last week or so across the larger parking lot with the mulch piles that are now shrinking in size, making room for closer parking.

    The whole field is now seeded and planted so be mindful where you step!
    Try to walk on the aisles of the fabric. And for now, avoid the bare soil on the far side will later hold our first batch of sunflowers, tithonia, and zinnias. Watch this field start to come to life with not just colorful blooms but all our favorite native pollinators.

  2. Directly in Herb Garden next to CSA pick-up
    Starting from the first oval brick bed nearest the picnic table, these herbs are ready to pick- Please ask if you would like a demo on how to cut best:

  • Oregano

  • Thyme

  • Calendula Flowers (edible)

  • Lemon Balm

  • Mint

  • Sorrel

  • Rosemary - go easy; they are still young plants, but a few snips would help them bush out more fresh tips!

Any flowers you see are up for grabs, just be mindful that we are a community sharing this space and opportunity.

More from the Farm

New Beef Cuts are in stock!!!

While it is undergoing some renovations, the farm store is open during all Clagett CSA pick-ups for walk-in purchases with cash/credit card and for pre-order pick-ups

Remote Shareholder’s: Have your pre-order’s delivered to your next CSA pick-up! Select your CSA site at checkout to request, and we will reach out to confirm via email.

-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org, or checking in with staff at pick-up!

If you wish to add additional emails to receive this email each week, subscribe here.

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 5 of 26: Pickling cucumbers are starting, and the slicers are departing

Main Season CSA Pick-up Schedule

Wednesday -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

This Week’s Share

Green Onions
Beets
Arugula | Tokyo Bekana
Kohlrabi | Radishes
Fennel
Cucumbers
Lettuce Heads
Kale | Collards | Swiss Chard
Summer Squash

Farm Updates

Week 5 is here, and we're really starting to feel the season shift. The weather's warming up, and the rain is becoming a distant memory. Our high-tunnel cucumbers are saying their goodbyes, but no worries—our pickling cucumbers are stepping up right on time. And while all things can be pickled, this type is the perfect candidate! With its petite uniform sizing and amazing crunch.

Take a look around the benches, and you'll spot some crops making their exit while heat-loving newcomers take center stage. The lettuce has been the first to slow down, and this week it's seriously the last time—it's going to start getting that strong, bitter taste from the heat. But fear not, we've got other salad greens ready to keep us going through the end of Spring.

Spring is hanging on for just 9 more days, with the summer equinox rolling in on June 20. Between now and mid-July, get ready for the biggest transition yet! Before Spring says farewell, we're aiming to bring along with the greens, more rounds of beets, a new cabbage variety, and a fresh batch of carrots to keep things exciting. And let us not forget about our early summer squash.

With this week included, we've got 3 more weeks until we take a break for the Fourth of July for the entire week. When we come back, get excited for more summer favorites to start hitting the benches. We will keep reminding you all as this week gets closer.

Please also note, that as share sizes increase note you can leave what you feel you will not use as we do donate all remaining produce each week to local food pantries with our Capital Area Food Bank Partners and the PG Food Rescue. Did you know we also make sure to harvest extra to donate about 30% or more of our harvest throughout the season? Last season we totaled 25,000 pounds, and so far this season we are at 2550 pounds!

U-pick

U-pick Hours: Monday- Saturday 9:00=6:00p.m. Closed Sundays

  1. Strawberries
    We are hoping everyone can grab a small container’s worth easily while they are here to leave this opportunity for all to experience.
    This field is directly in front of the small parking lot you have used these first few weeks to get your shares at the farm. For our remote locations, you will want to find yourself parked by the CSA pick-up & Farm Store.

    It will be inside the large fence right in front of you and to your left, you will see a large gate, and to the right, we also have in the corner- another person-sized gate.
    You may use either gate but we do ask if you are the last from the field, please shut the gates behind you to keep the deer out. We also ask that you do not drive into the fields.

    The strawberries are at the farther side, or at the bottom of the field. You will see the future U-pick tomatoes as you walk down. We will have red signs to lead the way.
    We ask that you do not drive into the fields.

  2. The larger annual herb and flower field (Also referred to as Field G2)
    First row opening up in this field, Parsley!

    This is all located on the black landscape fabric you may have noticed expanding over the last week or so across the larger parking lot with the mulch piles that are now shrinking in size, making room for closer parking.

    When you cut just be mindful to leave enough for the plant to regrow. For parsley this cutting spot will be a bit lower than the herbs we have seen so far. Let us know if you want a cutting demo!

    The whole field is now seeded and planted so be mindful where you step!
    Try to walk on the aisles on the fabric. And for now, avoid the bare soil on the far side will later hold our first batch of sunflowers, tithonia, and zinnias. Watch this field start to come to life with not just colorful blooms but all our favorite native pollinators.

Directly in Herb Garden next to CSA pick-up
Starting from the first oval brick bed nearest the picnic table, these herbs are ready to pick- Please ask if you would like a demo on how to cut best:

  • Oregano

  • Thyme

  • Calendula Flowers (edible)

  • Lemon Balm

  • Mint

  • Sorrel

  • Rosemary - go easy; they are still young plants, but a few snips would help them bush out more fresh tips!

Any flowers you see are up for grabs, just be mindful that we are a community sharing this space and opportunity.

More from the FArm

Our Bulk Beef is coming back this weekend!!!
Pick-up is right on time for Father’s Day- load up on the savings of quality cuts for the grill!
Even the 25 pound packs come with a variety of steaks from sirloins, t-bones, and ribsteaks

Dry- aged for 21 days. and vacuumed sealed and frozen fresh by Bowman’s Butcher-shop.

Act quickly while supplies last this summer

While it is undergoing some renovations, the farm store is open during all Clagett CSA pick-ups for walk-in purchases with cash/credit card and for pre-order pick-ups

Remote Shareholder’s: Have your pre-order’s delivered to your next CSA pick-up! Select your CSA site at checkout to request, and we will reach out to confirm via email.

-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org, or checking in with staff at pick-up!

If you wish to add additional emails to receive this email each week, subscribe here.

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 4 of 26: U-pick Strawberries and the first Summer Squash

Main Season CSA Pick-up Schedule

Wednesday -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

This Week’s Share

Garlic Scapes
Chinese Cabbage
Arugula | Tokyo Bekana
Purple Top Turnips | Radishes
Cucumbers
Lettuce Heads
Kale | Collards | Swiss Chard | Bok Choi
Kohlrabi
Summer Squash

As a gentle reminder, no dogs are permitted unless they are service animals.
We appreciate your support in ensuring the safety of our livestock on farm and improving our food safety at all of our pick-up locations.

Farm Updates

Summer is almost here, and we can feel it in the air! As we gear up to plant our late summer crops, we're also busy with tasks like mulching our first wave of tomatoes with straw. Straw is a byproduct of cereal grain crops, coming free of weed seeds, and offering multiple benefits. It adds organic matter, suppresses weed growth, retains moisture, and creates a tough surface that hampers the movement of pests like the Colorado Potato Beetle.

A big task next on our agenda is setting up posts for our tomatoes. We'll be placing posts every few plants and using special tomato twine to weave these beauties together. Ensuring healthier plants and a more efficient harvest.

And, regarding our strawberries, we've noticed they need quite a bit of sorting during picking. The good news is that each day, the berries are getting sweeter as the rain diminishes, concentrating those delicious sugars.

We saw an incredibly wet spring, which has since given way to some lovely dry and warm days. However, it does not seem like it was in time to fully turn the corner. We do not anticipate the extended strawberry season we experienced last year with its drier early spring weather.

Therefore, we are opening U-pick strawberries for all our CSA shareholders now to enjoy while they last. We hope to have at least a couple more weeks of picking. Please try to to pick only a small container’s worth, so everyone can share in this delightful experience this coming week.

New areas are being added to U-pick

U-pick Hours: Monday- Saturday 9:00=6:00p.m. Closed Sundays

  1. Strawberries
    We are hoping everyone can grab a small container’s worth easily while they are here to leave this opportunity for all to experience.
    This field is directly in front of the small parking lot you have used these first few weeks to get your shares at the farm. For our remote locations, you will want to find yourself parked by the CSA pick-up & Farm Store.

    It will be inside the large fence right in front of you and to your left, you will see a large gate, and to the right, we also have in the corner- another person-sized gate.
    You may use either gate but we do ask if you are the last from the field, please shut the gates behind you to keep the deer out. We also ask that you do not drive into the fields.

    The strawberries are at the farther side, or at the bottom of the field. You will see the future U-pick tomatoes as you walk down. We will have red signs to lead the way.
    We ask that you do not drive into the fields.

  2. The larger annual herb and flower field (Also referred to as Field G2)
    First row opening up in this field, Parsley!

    This is all located on the black landscape fabric you may have noticed expanding over the last week or so across the larger parking lot with the mulch piles that are now shrinking in size, making room for closer parking.

    When you cut just be mindful to leave enough for the plant to regrow. For parsley this cutting spot will be a bit lower than the herbs we have seen so far. Let us know if you want a cutting demo!

    The whole field is now seeded and planted so be mindful where you step!
    Try to walk on the aisles on the fabric. And for now, avoid the bare soil on the far side will later hold our first batch of sunflowers, tithonia, and zinnias. Watch this field start to come to life with not just colorful blooms but all our favorite native pollinators.

Directly in Herb Garden next to CSA pick-up
Starting from the first oval brick bed nearest the picnic table, these herbs are ready to pick- Please ask if you would like a demo on how to cut best:

  • Oregano

  • Thyme

  • Calendula Flowers (edible)

  • Lemon Balm

  • Mint

  • Sorrel

  • Rosemary - go easy; they are still young plants, but a few snips would help them bush out more fresh tips!

Any flowers you see are up for grabs, just be mindful that we are a community sharing this space and opportunity.

More from the FArm

Our Bulk Beef Pack Pre-Ordering is OPEN!

Enjoy the savings on quality beef, grass-fed and finished, raised here at Clagett Farm. Options range from a larger full “quarter” of a cow at 100 pounds, to a Marvelous Variety Pack at 25 pounds.

Dry- aged for 21 days. and vacuumed sealed and frozen fresh by Bowman’s Butcher-shop. Expected back by June 16

Act quickly while supplies last this summer

While it is undergoing some renovations, the farm store is open during all Clagett CSA pick-ups for walk-in purchases with cash/credit card and for pre-order pick-ups

Remote Shareholder’s: Have your pre-order’s delivered to your next CSA pick-up! Select your CSA site at checkout to request, and we will reach out to confirm via email.

-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org, or checking in with staff at pick-up!

If you wish to add additional emails to receive this email each week, subscribe here.

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 3 of 26: Greens Galore

Main Season CSA Pick-up Schedule

Wednesday -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

This Week’s Share

Garlic Scapes
Strawberries
Chinese Cabbage
Arugula | Tokyo Bekana | Spicy Mix
Purple Top Turnips
Bok Choi
Cucumbers
Lettuce Heads
Kale | Collards | Swiss Chard

As a gentle reminder, no dogs are permitted unless they are service animals.
We appreciate your support in ensuring the safety of our livestock on farm and improving our food safety at all of our pick-up locations.

Farm Updates

This week, we will be stepping into June on Saturday and transitioning into summer with the equinox on June 20. Summer is indeed on its way as you can see by many early spring greens sharing their beautiful flowers with us.

While we are all eager, we are going to hold off on opening U-pick strawberries for one more week. The plants and berries have been enjoying the sun but need a little more time to be prolific enough for everyone. Hopefully, we keep seeing nice periods of sunshine!

This month, our greens will remain abundant, but new varieties will emerge, replacing some of the more sensitive cooler-season crops. For example, we started strong with all our favorite lettuce varieties, but as the heat increases, so does their bitterness. You can look now for tasty alternatives to start hitting the shares, like this week's Tokyo Bekana.

Although technically a Chinese cabbage, it's grown as a cut-and-come-again salad green that can handle the heat and stay mild. Beyond the greens, we hope to keep serving up some other favorites like our beans, which are progressing well, and another round of beets. And right around the corner is summer squash!

With this heat, there is a reward, as it will allow our summer crops to start flourishing. So while we are surrounded by greens now, be sure to savor them because they will soon be replaced by crops like garlic, onions, potatoes, and the first field tomatoes, all coming in July.

So one high tunnel has been producing very well with cucumbers. And we did indeed plant another with some tomatoes! They are still green, but as we see warmer nights, those glossy greens should start turning red very soon. While this will not be a peak summer tomato harvest, we hope to give all our shareholders a small taste of summer just a bit sooner. So stay tuned for their progress!!

Looking to take an elegant step through local seasonal cuisine, paired with locally crafted wine?

Join us at The Vineyard at Dodon, Sunday, June 2
5:00 p.m.
Ticketed Event

U-pick List in Herb Garden
Available to all pick-up locations:
U-pick hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00-6:00p.m., Closed Sundays

Starting from the first oval brick bed nearest the picnic table, these herbs are ready to pick- Please ask if you would like a demo on how to cut best:

  • Oregano

  • Thyme

  • Calendula Flowers (edible)

  • Lemon Balm

  • Mint

  • Sorrel

  • Rosemary - go easy; they are still young plants, but a few snips would help them bush out more fresh tips!

Any flowers you see are up for grabs, just be mindful that we are a community sharing this space and opportunity.

More from the FArm

Our Bulk Beef Pack Pre-Ordering is OPEN!

Enjoy the savings on quality beef, grass-fed and finished, raised here at Clagett Farm. Options range from a larger full “quarter” of a cow at 100 pounds, to a Marvelous Variety Pack at 25 pounds.

Dry- aged for 21 days. and vacuumed sealed and frozen fresh by Bowman’s Butcher-shop. Expected back by June 16

Act quickly while supplies last this summer

While it is undergoing some renovations, the farm store is open during all Clagett CSA pick-ups for walk-in purchases with cash/credit card and for pre-order pick-ups

Remote Shareholder’s: Have your pre-order’s delivered to your next CSA pick-up! Select your CSA site at checkout to request, and we will reach out to confirm via email.

-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org, or checking in with staff at pick-up!

If you wish to add additional emails to receive this email each week, subscribe here.

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 2 of 26: Strawberries and Garlic Scapes make their debut

This Week’s Share

Garlic Scapes
Strawberries
Bok Choi
Cucumber
Lettuce Heads
Turnips
Kale | Collards
2 Seedlings

These seedling’s will come in 2 inch plastic pots, we are able to reuse them! Please return them in the coming weeks for us next season.

Main Season CSA Pick-up Schedule

Wednesday -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

Farm Updates

What a fantastic first week of harvest! So many of you showed up smiling, ready to collect your first share despite the wet weather. That said, we are looking forward to a week of drying out, because while plants do love a drink of water, they also fancy a good basking in the sun.

This week, we are gearing up ,sooner than expected, to pick the Garlic Scapes from our garlic plants. This is a wonderful bonus from hard-neck garlic varieties. The garlic scape is the flower stalk of the garlic. It has a bud at the tip, that if left, would burst with a bunch of mini clove-like garlic seeds.

However, we pick them off to signal to the plant that it’s not time to put energy towards producing a flower but to instead put energy back into enlarging the bulb.

This also means in a month’s time full sized garlic will be hitting our benches. And a fun fact, garlic falls into a group of crops we will refer to as those being harvested in bulk. This means the entire crop is ready at one time, so we harvest them all at the same time, usually over a week or two. When then cure and store them, so they last for months to come this season.

Moving ahead, many crops are also nearing their harvest day a bit sooner than usual. We can look forward to Chinese Cabbages, Kohlrabi, Swiss Chard, and Summer Squash joining us soon on the bench, as we continue to enjoy our abundance of lettuce, kale, and collards.

Strawberry season is coming in strong this week, and we predict U-pick to open up in the coming weeks. Stay tuned next week as we refine our prediction.

U-pick List in Herb Garden
Available to all pick-up locations:
U-pick hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00-6:00p.m., Closed Sundays

Starting from the first oval brick bed nearest the picnic table, these herbs are ready to pick- Please ask if you would like a demo on how to cut best:

  • Oregano

  • Thyme

  • Calendula Flowers (edible)

  • Lemon Balm

  • Mint

  • Sorrel

  • Rosemary - go easy; they are still young plants, but a few snips would help them bush out more fresh tips!

Any flowers you see are up for grabs, just be mindful that we are a community sharing this space and opportunity.

As a gentle reminder, no dogs are permitted unless they are service animals. We appreciate your support in ensuring the safety of our livestock and improving our food safety!

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More from the FArm

Our Bulk Beef Pack Pre-Order’s are one sale now!

Enjoy the savings on quality beef, grass-fed and finished, raised right here at Clagett Farm. Options ranging from a larger full “quarter” of a cow at 100 pounds, down to a Marvelous Variety Pack of 25 pounds.

-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org, or checking in with staff at pick-up!

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CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 1 of 26: First harvest of the 2024 Main season begins

This Week’s Share

Garlic Scallions
Beets
Lettuce Heads
Arugula & “Spicy” Mix
Radishes
Turnips
3 Seedlings

These seedling’s will come in 2 inch plastic pots, we are able to reuse them! Please return them in the coming weeks for us next season.

Tips for your first week

Where to find the CSA pick-up at each location:
We will be found in our same area’s as before but for those joining the CSA here are some tips to make the first time easy for us to find.

Clagett Farm
We ask that you enter from Old Marlboro Pike entrance, and during CSA time’s our gates will be open for you to follow our big blue signs up to the CSA-pick-up and Farm Store.

Davidsonville
We will be located in the outdoor pavilion to the right as you approach, and you will find parking in the rear of the building.

Annapolis
Continue straight back past the front parking lot to go towards the parking area found underneath the building. We will be found taking advantage of the covered area there in the front 2 corner spots. Feel free to park along the loop.

What to bring:

When you come to grab your share, to reduce the need for single use bags, we do encourage the use of reusable totes, produce bags, or even a spare box that was destined for recycles can have one more stop as a veggie mode-of-transport.

Getting food straight from the farm and buying local has more benefits than just our growing practices. We simply do not need to package the food for weeks of storage and transport, we give it straight to our community, freshly harvested!

Other Info:
13 week shareholder’s please note you can use your credits when ever you would like over this 26 week harvest period.
No need to alternate, or start the first week. Just note you will only be able to use 1 credit at a time (2 credits are possible upon request)

26 week shareholder’s please note you may double up whenever you may like over the 26 week season, with a max of 2 credits each week.

Farm Updates

We are absolutely thrilled to get started, and so are many of our favorite crops!

We have missed you all and are eager to meet new shareholders this year. If you haven’t heard, we are planting more rows to make room for another 30 shares this season, and we are almost there! If you know someone who may be interested in joining, please send them our way.

Our season started in January, once we caught our breath and visited family for the holidays in December. It was certainly a bit different with our new Winter CSA in the mix, but our first season was a huge success! It integrated really well with tasks like crop planning, seed and supply ordering, organic certification, and kicking off seeding with our onions!

You may notice some other projects we slid into the mix as well, such as finishing up with our third and final high tunnel, adding a new fence, and trading some pasture space for veggie crops. And just to show off, we are polishing up some really cool wash station bits to help with water drainage, and a new root sprayer.

As the weather began to warm earlier this year and “go times” were approaching, we had certainly been feeling on our toes, as we were given limited windows to prepare and plant our fields. Since the early wet months made fieldwork nearly impossible, we then had not seen a drop of rain for what was almost three weeks after getting quite a bit in the ground. Putting pressure on the need to shift to laying out irrigation to get those baby crops a drink while also keeping on with the current seeding and planting needs.

But with a team like this, we yet again banded together with the new overwhelming to-dos at hand, and we pulled off what looks like an incredible spring harvest. While we still have days of weeding and another batch of seeding of crops like radishes and salad greens ahead, much of our focus is transitioning to the summer crops growing next, with many like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, melons, beans, potatoes, and onions already in the ground.

Field of our Spring Brassicas, single rows in a tilled fielded of kale, collards, kohlrabi & cabbages

Inside one of new high tunnels 6 rows of tomatoes

We have been having a lot of fun in our new high tunnels this year too. While mostly intended to produce crops year-round, and for our Winter CSA program- we could not resist also trialing some fun early crops for our main season.

It has been a tremendous learning experience that is still underway, as we go to play with growing and plant management techniques that are just not possible in the scale of some of our open field spaces. So look forward to some early treats as they come our way, starting with some beautiful beets!

And for U-pick
Reminder that this is an offering for all shareholder’s no matter your pick-up location.
This year we are keeping the hours simple and easy to remember
9:00-6:00p.m. Monday-Saturday
Closed Sunday’s

This will come in handy here soon as it does seem strawberry season is easing in and will be producing a bounty we are sure in a few weeks time. That we will open the gates to you all to help us keep up with as it carries over hopefully well into June.

In the meantime though, please enjoy the herbs that are available at the farm. You will notice the signs and large fragrant mounds right at the CSA pick-up location in the raised brick beds. Please ask for assistance if you would like to know how to best harvest for them to continuously regrow all season long. But a good rule of thumb is to take the top tender tips and leave behind a good portion of the plant to survive, many do not get survive being cut at soil level.

For our remote locations note we will try our best to harvest some of these extras when we can- especially when items like the basil is abundant. But we highly encourage a few trips out to the farm this season, especially once we start seeing a bounty of overlapping crops to u-pick from like sunflowers, cherry tomatoes and chili peppers!

The wait is finally over, 2024 has begun.

More from the Farm

As CSA shareholders you will receive first notice for all Farm Store updates, and availability throughout the season on our Grass-fed and finished beef and lamb, as well as, the honey that comes late summer!!

This season as well please note there will be an option for our remote pick-up’s to request their pre-orders be delivered along with their CSA pick-up’s. Making buying fresh and buying local a bit more convenient

Ready for our first harvest!!
-The Clagett Crew
Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org

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CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

2024 Season Starts Next Week!!!

Week One
Pick-up Date’s and Time’s

Wednesday May 15 -Clagett Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday May 16 - Annapolis, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday May 17 - Davidsonville, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday May 18 - Clagett Farm, 1:00-4:00p.m.

Next Week’s Share

Garlic Scallions
Beets
Lettuce Heads
Arugula & “Spicy” Mix
Radishes
Turnips
3 Seedlings

It is that time, the veggies are ready for harvest here at the farm and we are ready to kick off our season being able to provide organic, fresh, premium veggies to you all, each of these 26 weeks. Please note: All shares will be consecutive weeks EXCEPT we do take a break the week of JULY 4.

This is a time when we will see Spring crops transition to Summer. It gives the summer crops, and us farmers a final breathe before the summer bounty hits full swing. This will also give many families the flexibility to travel during a popular vacation time. We will add reminders again, as this week approaches.

This first week of shares will kick off the weekly blog post and emails that will go out to each shareholder who purchased. If you wish to add additional emails, subscribe here.

Where to find the CSA pick-up at each location:
We will be found in our same area’s as before but for those joining the CSA here are some tips to make the first time easy for us to find.

Clagett Farm
We ask that you enter from Old Marlboro Pike entrance, and during CSA time’s our gates will be open for you to follow our big blue signs up to the CSA-pick-up and Farm Store.

Davidsonville
We will be located in the outdoor pavilion to the right as you approach, and you will find parking in the rear of the building.

Annapolis
Continue straight back past the front parking lo to go towards the parking area found underneath the building. We will be found taking advantage of the covered area there in the front 2 corner spots. Feel free to park along the loop.

What to bring:

When you come to grab your share, to reduce the need for single use bags, we do encourage the use of reusable totes, produce bags, or even a spare box that was destined for recycles can have one more stop as a veggie mode-of-transport.

Getting food straight from the farm and buying local has more benefits than just our growing practices. We simply do not need to package the food for weeks of storage and transport, we give it straight to our community, freshly harvested!

Farm Updates

As the next few weeks approach we have a wonderful bounty in store!

We have rolled into this year checking quite of lot of big ticket items off our “winter” list, and you will see a quite a few of them as you enter the farm. Like the new deer fence we installed near our 3 new high tunnels. We will indeed have more info to come on how to navigate the farm, during our U-pick open hours. Herbs are waking up and flowers will follow but we are expecting the U-pick strawberries to happen mid-June- but you will see them start creeping into the Week 2 share’s picked by us!

The green’s, which a lot you will now see in our new deer fence as you drive up, are looking quite happy and have really started to go through some serious growth spurts with this warm weather and now a good rain. It has also been so amazing to see how making this shift to how we manage those areas have already improved our efficiencies in infrastructure (the fence, water line’s), proximity to the tractor equipment and us-the farmer’s!

So, let’s gather our recipes, re-usable bags, clean out those crisper drawers this weekend, and get ready to dive into another amazing season of locally grown food.

We look forward to seeing you all soon! If you have any more questions please reach out to us at Clagettfarm@cbf.org.

Warmly,
-The Clagett Crew

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.

Week 8 of 8: Seasons have changed

This Week’s Share

Sweet Potatoes
Scallions
Cabbage
Purple Daikon Radishes
Head Lettuce
Rutabagas/Turnips
Carrots/Kohlrabi
Collards/Chard
Cilantro/Parsley
Arugula | Spicy Mix | Tokyo Bekana | & Peashoots

Winter Season Updates

It is so bittersweet to be at the final pickup of our first winter CSA.
Thank you for taking a chance and joining us as we trialed our first every Winter CSA program. To be honest, it was quite a risk and a new skill for all on board. Together though, skills combined, we pulled off something we are all quite proud of and consider a success. For us as growers, this season brought joy from triumphing new challenges in the colder winter months. And we hope it was fun for you all as consumers to eat what veggies winter in Maryland has to offer- because we certainly enjoyed that part too!

Attached is our survey, and we hope you’ll take just a minute to let us know what our successes and areas of improvement as we go to finalize plans for next season.

Each decision about growing these vegetables and getting them into your kitchens is made carefully, and keeping in mind what benefits the greatest number of people and what we as a team are capable of, so please add your voice.

Though this is the final week of winter CSA, believe us when we say we are hard at work getting plants, fields, and supplies ready for the main season!

We broke ground on the first vegetable plots within our new deer fence. And will be racing to get this first wave of plants out of our greenhouse ahead of this weekend’s rain, with a predicted 2 inches.

Meanwhile, our native tree nursery is in full swing preparing young saplings that will be used in restoration efforts in our watershed. With some help from Alternative Break Groups volunteering last week, we already have 1,400 native sycamore and birch, with lots more to come!

CBF offers many cool opportunities to take part in our watershed from here at the farm and our many other programs, see what’s happening on the CBF event calendar.
PG county residents-Check out this cool opportunity to learn more about being a steward of the watershed from CBF through our VoiCeS class, Learn more here.

Recipe:

Daikon Radish and Carrot Stick Pickles

This week in your share you’re getting purple daikon radishes, which are smaller than the typical giant white daikons found in Asian grocery stores. These can be thinly sliced and added raw to salads, roasted in the oven with other root vegetables, or you can try out this simple fridge pickle recipe. Daikon radishes are a little spicy, and these are pickled in a sweet brine that will make you an awesome flavorful snack. Also the inside of purple daikons have a cute purple star pattern. Enjoy!

Spring Open House

Saturday April 20 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Hayrides, Animal + Greenhouse visits, & Meet the farmers

Our Main Season CSA on sale!!!

Clagett | Davidsonville | Annapolis

Last season’s meat cuts on sale and fresh bulk packs available for pre-order

Join our crew!!

We are hiring seasonal veggie staff!!! This will be a part time position with flexible start and end date through summer months. Please see more and apply here
Reach out to us via email: Clagettfarm@cbf.org with any questions

-Olivia (she/they) and Will (he/him)

Week 7 of 8: Only 11 more days until Spring!

This Week’s Share

Rutabagas
Sweet potatoes/Winter squash
Carrots
Scallions
Collards/Chard
Arugula/Tokyo Bekana
Spinach
Broccoli

All Winter CSA pick-up dates here

Winter Season Updates

We hope everyone is doing great this week, despite all the rain and enjoying the taste of warm sunny days we have had in between.

And happy belated leap day! It is bringing us the Spring Equinox a little earlier, on March 19.

The moment we switched from February to March, it immediately felt like winter was over, and the serious bustle of spring was here. The greenhouse we already thought was full (with 5 different types of onions totaling 100,000 seeds!), is now bursting with so many gorgeous baby transplants.

Spring is for newness, birth, and endless possibility. Everything has potential at this time of year. Everything feels like it could go according to plan, pitfalls can all be wisely foreseen, and prevented.

Things, such as, amount plants being enough. and a good size at the right week. And at the tail end of summer we will not grow tired and are going to bow out gracefully to make way for perfect cover cropping at the perfect moment.

But alas, there will always be some hiccups along the way, even more so with climate change throwing curveballs into predictable seasons and consistent weather patterns etc.

Each year though we do learn from all of our successes and more so from those things that are not so successful. And each year we see new accomplishments and skillsets be added to our team’s “toolbelt” of farming. Thank you again for being apart of one of the biggest new ones for us, our first ever Winter CSA.

Coming up soon we’ll be transitioning the amazing new high tunnels from winter greens to trialing early summer crops!

These tunnels were made specifically with winter growing in mind, but they are extremely useful in season extension year round. There is no guarantee as we will be making our best guesses on the timing to seed to harvest before it gets too hot inside for young plants to thrive. This year we will trial crops we have grown in the field (or in pots) like cucumbers, tomatoes, and ginger! We are excited to see what they bring for us in Spring and how long they may last.

Recipe:

Parmesan Baked Rutabaga

A really exciting new item in your CSA this week is rutabaga! This amazing root is like a turnip and a potato put together, and it can be cooked in literally any of the hundreds of ways you could eat a potato. A fun twist on the shepherd’s pie is using mashed rutabaga instead of mashed potatoes! It can of course be roasted along with carrots and sweet potatoes on a tasty sheet bake. This recipe is for an awesome cheesy gratin-like rutabaga side dish. Enjoy!

More Farm Updates

Leg of Lamb On Sale!

It is a wonderful cut to make with gyros! Farm crew approved.
Check out this recipe from the food network.com here!

Our Main Season is selling fast we are over half full!

Clagett | Davidsonville | Annapolis

Reach out to us via email: Clagettfarm@cbf.org with any questions

-Olivia (she/they) and Will (he/him)

Week 6 of 8: Finals weeks of winter

It may be winter, but things are looking green and vibrant in the tunnels.

This Week’s Share

Kale/Collards/Chard
Lettuce/Spinach/Tatsoi
Winter Squash/Sweet potatoes
Turnips/Radishes
Carrots
Scallions
Fennel/Cilantro/Parsley

All Winter CSA pick-up dates here

Winter Season Updates:

Howdy all, 

What an incredible first winter season so far! We would love to hear about what your favorite vegetable has been this winter?! Share with us at pick-up, or if you have some photo’s of the veggies in action we would love to see it on our Instagram @CBFClagettFarm!

So much has been learned going into this season, and with just a couple pick-up’s left after this, a lot of our focus is mostly on keeping what is almost ready to harvest nice and cozy through these next cold snaps. With row covers and keeping those sides of the high tunnel closed snuggly.

The main event of the last two weeks has been an amazing amount of seeding for our main season –and by that we mean a LOT of seeding. Trays upon trays upon trays upon trays – thousands of onions of many types, and several cabbage, kale, collards, chard, kohlrabi, & lettuces are making their start.

It’s only February and our seedling greenhouse is nearly full. We will do this dance all season long as things will then move over to a “hardening off” area next, to then be to be planted when it warms up just a bit more closer to April, out in the fields. Which will be here in a blink of an eye!

We’re really enjoying the new morning routine, opening the greenhouse, checking germination on seeded trays, and then seeding for the rest of the day.

It’s quite a meditative activity, and really impresses upon us the magic of plants; as long as you give them the three magic ingredients that are soil, water, and sunlight, they morph from tiny little seeds into thousands of pounds of food.

 

When we’re not seeding-we have done some organizing/shelf building, finalizing our 2024 plan, and something you may notice-building new fences!
No gate yet, but we do plan that once installed will remain open during our CSA pick-up’s!

The winter has got to include all the other things, we don’t have time for in the spring once the last frost date passes the plants and harvest take priority. Planning now ensures we can go through the most intense part of our year smoothly!

Back to Winter!

This week you’re going to see an interesting limited-time option in the CSA: bunches of flowered tatsoi, which look like and can be cooked just the same as broccolini or broccoli raab.

These are the tasty stems, leaves, and florets of tatsoi plants that have bolted, and the entire bunch is edible! The stems and leaves have a nicely crisp texture and mildly spicy flavor, like turnip greens, and the florets are just like little broccoli heads.

These are coming to you this week because lots of leafy greens bolt in the spring as the temperature starts to change, and the flowering part of the plant is a delicious seasonal veg item. We generally are always trying to avoid bolting, as this means the end of the life of the plant and the flavor can turn hot. But not so with these delicate, one time only, tatsoi bunches.

Recommend rinsing and roughly chopping the entire bunch, sautéing in sesame oil, and adding a tiny drizzle of honey and sesame seeds. Or let the flavors mellow in a frittata with some roasted sweet potato and scallions. If you’re ready to cook something different, try this. If spicy mustards or bitter radicchio aren’t your thing, skip it. Enjoy!

Recipe:

Rosemary Roasted Root Vegetable Panzanella

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups peeled, chopped root vegetables (such as beets, carrots, or sweet potato)

  • 1 medium leek, halved, rinsed clean, and chopped into 1/4-inch slices

  • 1 Tbsp avocado or olive oil

  • 1 healthy pinch each salt and black pepper

  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, chopped (or sub dried)

CHICKPEAS

  • 1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained and patted dry with a towel (or sub ~1 ½ cups homemade)

  • 1 Tbsp avocado or olive oil

  • 1 healthy pinch each salt and black pepper

  • 1 sprig fresh rosemary, chopped (or sub dried)

  • 5 cloves garlic, crushed or roughly chopped (optional)

CROUTONS

  • 2 cups day old sturdy bread, cubed (such as sourdough // if gluten-free, use gluten-free bread or omit)

  • 1 tsp avocado oil

  • 1 healthy pinch each salt and pepper

DRESSING

  • 1/4 cup tahini (cashew butter could also work here, or sub olive oil to make it more of a vinaigrette)

  • 1 ½ tsp whole grain mustard

  • 2-3 Tbsp lemon juice (~1 large lemon)

  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar

  • 2-3 tsp maple syrup

  • 1 healthy pinch each salt and pepper

  • 2-4 Tbsp water to thin

GREENS

  • 1 large bundle kale, torn into bite-size pieces, large stems removed (1 large bundle is ~8 cups or 200 g)

  • 2 Tbsp lemon juice (optional)

  • 1 pinch each salt and pepper (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (204 C // use convection if you have it to speed cook time!) and position one rack near the top of the oven and another rack in the top/center of the oven. Also line two large baking sheets with parchment paper.

  2. Chop root vegetables and thinly slice leek (be sure to rinse away any residual dirt) and add to one of the prepared baking sheets. Sprinkle with oil, salt, pepper, and rosemary and toss to coat (see photo).

  3. Spread in an even layer and place on the bottom rack of the oven. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until vegetables are tender, slightly caramelized, and golden brown. Flip/toss near the 15-minute mark to ensure even cooking.

  4. Add your rinsed, dried chickpeas to a medium mixing bowl and top with oil, salt, pepper, rosemary, and crushed garlic (garlic optional). Toss to combine, then add to one half of the other prepared baking sheet (the croutons will go on the other side later). Place in the oven on the top/center rack, and bake for ~20 minutes, or until golden brown.

  5. In the meantime, prepare dressing by adding tahini, grainy mustard, lemon juice (starting with lesser amount), apple cider vinegar, maple syrup (starting with lesser amount), and salt and pepper, and whisk to combine. Add water until pourable.

  6. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed, adding more lemon for brightness/acidity, apple cider vinegar for tanginess, maple syrup for sweetness, salt or pepper to taste, or mustard for zestiness. Set aside.

  7. To the same mixing bowl used for the chickpeas, add your cubed bread and toss with a little oil, salt, and pepper. Add to the other half of the baking sheet with the chickpeas and bake for ~8-10 minutes, or until toasty and golden brown.

  8. Add chopped kale (or other greens) to a large mixing bowl (option to dress with a bit of lemon juice, salt, and pepper and massage for 1-2 minutes for more tender texture / improved digestibility). Then top with roasted vegetables, chickpeas, and croutons. Add half of the dressing, toss, and reserve the other half for serving.

  9. Best when fresh, but if saving for later, store all parts separately — especially the dressing and croutons — to keep from getting soggy.
 Dressing will keep for 5-7 days. Croutons will keep loosely covered at room temperature for ~2 days. Salad will keep for 2-3 days. Not freezer friendly.

More Farm Updates

Leg of Lamb On Sale!

Make a wonderful center piece for special weekend dinners coming up!

It is a wonderful cut to make with gyros!
Check out this recipe from the food network.com here!

 

26 Weeks & 13 Week Share Options

Main CSA Share’s Available Now!

Reach out to us via email: Clagettfarm@cbf.org with any questions

-Olivia (she/they) and Will (he/him)

Week 5 of 8: February Carrots!

It may be winter, but things are looking green and vibrant in the tunnels.

This Week’s Share

Garlic
Sweet Potatoes
Carrots
Turnips
Chard/Spinach
Cilantro/Parsley
Scallions
Fennel

All Winter CSA pick-up dates here

Note: Our awesome farm support team, Diane and Kayla, will be running the pickup this Saturday while the farm team is at a conference in PA.

If you have any questions please reach out to clagettfarm@cbf.org.

Winter Season Updates:

Another week of BIG winter farm moves over here! We hope you’re all in good health and avoiding the sicknesses that so many people have this time of year. Take care of yourselves and each other.

New fence posts have been put in all around the field in front of the barns.

This week when you come to the farm you’ll see the start of the large deer fence being put up around the center growing fields on the farm. This is a major infrastructure upgrade that we are super excited about.

Loss of deer habitat all around us means they are quite a strong presence in our fields and forests. This fence will help protect tender lettuce and young tomatoes from being ruthlessly chewed down while your farmers are at rest. In the future there will be a new traffic pattern for getting up to the pickup location off-hours- we will be sure to communicate with you how that’s going to work! We hope to have gates that remain open during pick-up hours.

More about our absence this weekend, the farm team is traveling to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to attend the PASA Sustainable Agriculture conference.

This is super important to us because like all career fields, learning from and being in conversation with other those in your field, so much can be learned when information is shared! We will be networking with growers and ag experts of all types, which is so important as we consider how to farm in the most ecologically responsible ways.

We hope to take part in productive discussions on topics like grassland management, organic pest control, winter growing, farm-worker labor rights, cover cropping, and soo much more. Winter is really the only time of year we have the bandwidth to attend learning sessions like this so we hope you can forgive us! We will miss you dearly!

Yellow onion seeding!

Finally, it’s hard to believe, but the first seeds for the 2024 main season have been planted!

Onions are the first seeds we start because they take a very long time to reach maturity. They’ll grow up for the next two months in the greenhouse, and then will be harvested after another three months once transplanted in the field. That’s a lot of time and effort, but we think it’s worth it for a delicious staple item like an onion, to be totally local and organic. Hard to find!

Coming right on their heels will be all the bunching greens, lettuces, salad mixes, and before we know it we’ll be starting up tomatoes, peppers, and the rest of the summer food. 

Reminder that main season shares are on sale now! Be sure to select YES as a returning shareholder for the price break.

Recipe: Saag Paneer

Photo credit: Shweta Garg, Masala and Chai

Here is a great Indian recipe for cooking chard or spinach in a really delicious way! Saag Paneer is a warm, tasty comforting dish that traditionally uses spinach, but lots of other greens can be substituted, like rainbow chard, mustards, or even radish or turnips greens if you like that spicy flavor. This is a more involved recipe, and would go great with some cilantro and scallions sprinkled on top.

Ingredients:

Instructions

  • Remove thick stalk from the leaves of the swiss chard. Add the leafy greens to a steamer and steam for about 5 minutes, or until it smells earthy.

  • Once the chard has cooled down a bit, transfer the steamed chard to a blender and puree the leaves with about ¼ cup of water, or just enough water until the blender is able to run.

  • Cut the block of paneer into ¼ - ½ inch thick rectangles. Poke holes in each piece with a fork.

  • Heat a pan and melt half the ghee. Once it's hot, add the paneer and shallow fry on each side for ~2 minutes, or until each side is a light golden brown. Sprinkle a bit of salt on the paneer.

  • Very finely chop the onion. In the Dutch Oven on low to medium heat, melt the rest of the ghee. Add in the cumin seeds. Once they start to pop, add the finely chopped diced onions along with the ginger garlic paste and sauté until browned.

  • Next, add in all of the spices - the turmeric, red chili powder, ground coriander, and garam masala. Stir in the tomato paste with 2 teaspoons of hot water, or until the tomato paste with the spices and onions creates a gravy.

  • Once the ghee separates on the sides of the gravy, add in the blended chard. If it's too thick, add a bit of hot water until desired consistency. Once it comes to a boil, add salt and pepper to taste.

  • Add the paneer into the saag and cover the pot. Simmer for 2-3 minutes to allow the paneer to soak up the flavor.

  • Turn off the stove and slowly pour in the heavy cream. Give the saag a stir and finish it off with freshly squeezed lemon juice.

  • Serve saag hot with rice or roti.

More Farm Updates

Main CSA Share’s Available

Reserve your space today, share’s are moving fast. Spring will be here soon!

Clagett | Davidsonville | Annapolis

Reach out to us via email: Clagettfarm@cbf.org with any questions

-Olivia (she/they) and Will (he/him)

Week 4 of 8: Go With the Snow

This Week’s Share

Garlic
Butternut Squash
Frozen Broccoli*
Head Lettuce
Turnips/Cabbage
Scallions
Fennel
Kale/Collards

All Winter CSA pick-up dates here

*This week you’re going to see broccoli in your share, which is wildly exciting to us, but make note that it is coming to you frozen.

We had made a harvest plan for the broccoli before the snow storm hit us, hoping that there would be time to harvest the broccoli once it had thawed but before it died - it was a tight window, since broccoli tends to die at temperatures below 15° or so (which was just about every night after Thursday last week). We made the tough call to harvest the broccoli frozen rather than let it all turn to mush and die - a tough decision but we’re excited that you get to have some broccoli.

You should use it as you would frozen broccoli- in a casserole, cheddar soup, or sautéed—and know that while it still has some crunch the freezing process causes the cell walls to break, so it will not have that perfectly crisp snap that fresh raw broccoli has. The flavor will be unchanged and all of us here are very excited still to enjoy!

Winter Season Updates:

Snow! Actual SNOW! Not a drill!

As you all definitely know, we got probably 5-6 inches of snow last week - more than we’ve had in the past 3 or 4 years. It was beautiful, serene, peaceful, cold, and many other adjectives that always come to mind out here on the farm.

Pre-snow we had to make sure all our the growing food was secured under a layer or two of row cover, since there were multiple nights in the the temperature dipped in the low teens. Now post-snowfall, we have spent some time clearing snow and ice off the top of our tunnels to prevent any sinking or bowing in the frame/plastic. Snow is heavy!

We also made an effort to pull row cover off of our indoor plants for most of the day on some sunny days to let the plants breath a little. Inside the high tunnels, and under row cover, without proper ventilation, the health of the plants will suffer due to becoming too humid and moist. Letting plants air out regularly , as well as keeping them warm, is an important part of keeping all the babies healthy and happy.

You’ll also see some scallions in your share - they’ve been living underneath row cover that has been repeatedly removed and put back on, which has knocked their tops around a little bit.

The scallion tops are a little bit scraggly - but who isn’t after a week of snow?

Meanwhile, we enjoyed some time sitting indoors doing some office work, looking at the snow, inspecting various animal tracks, and staying warm. Hope you all did too!

Also in the post-snow aftermath, we had to go out check our field of outdoor greens, but had to wait anxiously for days for the snow to melt off the top!

Yet again, this shows what goes into deciding what we harvest week-to-week; if we can’t even get to the food, there’s no way we can harvest it and hand it off to you. Luckily this oddly warm week has melted the snow and we’ll be able to harvest the kale and collards for the last time.

There’s kale hidden underneath all that snow and row cover.

Carrots coming your way soon!

Coming up soon, we think you’ll be getting some beautiful carrot bunches! Each little carrot snack I’ve had when checking their size so far has been sweet and really packed with flavor.

The first round of carrots will be harvested to let the others left behind to size up,— so they will be smaller than what you see in the grocery store.

A great way to eat these cuties is to leave them whole, just trimming the tops and bottoms if you feel you must, and toss them with honey, oil, and salt on a baking sheet. Roasting them whole, maybe mixed with a turnip or sweet potato too, makes a really classy side dish, maybe with a nice grass-fed pot roast, if that’s your thing.

Photo credit: The Minimalist Baker

Ingredients:

  • 2 Tbsp olive or avocado oil (plus more for serving // if oil-free, sub twice the amount of water)

  • 1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped (1 large onion yields ~ 3 cups or 225 g)

  • 1 medium fennel bulb, trimmed and finely chopped (or sub 2 stalks of celery // 1 medium fennel bulb yields ~ 2 cups chopped or 210 g)

  • 2 large carrots, peeled and finely chopped (2 large carrots yield ~3/4 cup or 90 g)

  • 1/2 tsp each sea salt and black pepper

  • 6 cups green cabbage, sliced into 1/4-inch slices

  • 2 cups chopped hearty greens like kale, collards or chard, sliced into 1/4-inch slices

  • 3 cloves garlic, minced

  • 1 Tbsp fennel seeds, crushed lightly in a mortar & pestle or spice grinder (or leave whole)

  • 1 heaping tsp smoked paprika

  • 1/2-1 tsp red pepper flakes (to taste)

  • 8 cups vegetable broth (or store-bought)

  • 1 medium-large yellow potato, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch chunks (1 potato yields ~3 cups or 300g)

    • Substitute in your turnips for the potato!

  • 1 (15 oz.) can crushed tomatoes

  • 3/4 cup dry green lentils

FOR SERVING (optional)

Instructions:

  • Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Once hot, add the onion, fennel (or celery), and carrot. Sauté gently for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are soft. Stir in the salt and pepper — don’t be tempted to turn the heat up to speed this up or the veggies won’t get as sweet.

  • Add in the cabbage and kale (if using), and sauté for another 5 minutes until wilted. Then stir in the garlic, fennel seeds, smoked paprika, and red pepper flakes. Cook for 1 more minute until the fennel seeds are fragrant.

  • Stir in the vegetable broth, diced potatoes (or turnips), crushed tomatoes, and lentils. Bring to a simmer, cover (with the lid slightly ajar), and simmer on medium-low for 30-40 minutes, or until the lentils are tender but not mushy.

  • Taste and adjust as needed, adding more salt for overall flavor or red pepper flakes for heat.

  • We like to top bowls with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of vegan parmesan and serve with garlic bread or focaccia bread.

  • Leftover soup will keep well in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 4-5 days or in the freezer for up to 1 month.

More Farm Updates

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Main CSA Share’s On Sale NOW!

Don't miss this opportunity as we have been in growing demand. Same times and locations for this coming year, and amazing fresh veggies—Spring Summer and Fall!
Secure your share now and make every season a celebration of delectable, farm-fresh delights

 

-Olivia (she/they) and Will (he/him)

Week 3 of 8: 2024 Year of Salad!

Romaine looking radiant on a sunny day this week.

This Week’s Share

Garlic
Sweet Potatoes
Kale
Collards/Chard
Baby Bok Choi
Lettuce
Arugula/Spicy Mix/Tatsoi/Spinach
Cilantro/Dill/Parsley
Apples

All Winter CSA pick-up dates here

Sooo Many Beautiful Greens!

Winter Season Updates:

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the farm after what we hope was a very happy and restful New Year and lovely holiday.

All of us here took some serious time off and it was delightful. A winter squash lasagna and lots of salads were consumed, along with an unspeakable number of cookies. If presents were part of your holiday, we’d love to hear the worst gifts you gave or received.

We’ve got our minds back on the winter to-do list, which includes items like: 

  • Build a giant fence around our center growing hub to protect from ever-present deer

  • Finish building the third high tunnel

  • Empty the barn of trash we've been sorting and stockpiling

These tasks, along with about a million other bookkeeping, remaining supply orders, crop planning, meat sales and overall just getting ready for the main season will definitely keep us busy. But it truly is so exciting! This time brings so much time for reflection and dreams for the year to come.

As we're getting further into this inaugural winter CSA, we are seeing what has become of those earlier growing and planning decisions. The moment those first two tunnels were erected we did not hesitate to fill them up with a variety of greens and roots, knowing they would need time and warmth to reach maturity.

So far, the tunnels and fields have been FULL of greens - three types of kale, collards, chard, three varieties of lettuce, bok choi, spinach, arugula, spicy salad mix, and tatsoi are all abundant right now. So much so we have been able to still keep up with donating extra produce each week, we suspect this week we will have donated 100 pounds of fresh produce in the winter months!

Every single one of those crops are at peak gorgeous, so the time for eating greens is now. It’s salad bonanza week! After this week you’ll see slightly less of the greens and a greater presence of roots (radishes, turnips, rutabagas, etc).

Par-slay!

Every week we make the decision about what goes in the share based on what is abundant in the field, what storage crops we have, shelf life, expected remaining lifespan of crops in the field, coming weather, what the most recent share contained, pest and disease pressure, and more.

We'll continue to monitor how our kale and collards can keep growing in the field, especially with the possibility of six inches of snow and almost single digit temperatures next week.

Our goal is to keep a good variety of different types of vegetables each week and find a balance between the dependable winter crops that we must eat over and over, like kale and bok choi, and the more delicate and exciting flavors of things like herbs and salad greens. 

2.5 inches of rain in one day!

It is certainly muddy on the farm, and there are new pond features but none of them are in our winter greens fields! So besides being a bit muddy we are doing okay with all this rain.

Recipe(s):

Photo credit: The Minimalist Baker

YOGURT DILL SAUCE:

Ingredients

US Customary – Metric

  • 1/2 cup plain dairy-free yogurt (we love plain Culina)

  • 3 small cloves garlic, minced or pressed

  • 2 Tbsp fresh dill (or sub half the amount dried dill)

  • 1 healthy pinch sea salt

  • 1 pinch cayenne pepper

  • 1-2 Tbsp lemon juice

  • 1 drizzle extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

  • To a small mixing bowl add yogurt, minced garlic, fresh dill, salt, cayenne, lemon juice, and olive oil and stir to combine.

  • Taste and adjust flavor as needed, adding more lemon for acidity, garlic for zing, dill for herbal flavor, salt to taste, pepper for heat, or olive oil for richness.

  • Serve immediately with desired dish, such as Moroccan-Roasted Carrots, Greek Goddess Bowls, or Falafel.

  • Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to 4-5 days. Not freezer friendly.

Photo credit: The Minimalist Baker

SWEET POTATO AND AVOCADO SALAD:

Ingredients

Sweet Potato

  • 1 large organic sweet potatoes (can sub 2 small per 1 large // skin on, halved then sliced into 1/4-inch rounds)

  • 1 Tbsp avocado or coconut oil (or water)

  • 1 pinch sea salt

Salad

  • 5 cups greens of choice (I mixed organic mizuna + spinach)

  • 1 medium ripe avocado (cubed)

  • 2 Tbsp hemp seeds (optional)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper (as original recipe is written // use more baking sheets if making a larger batch). Add sweet potatoes, toss in a bit of oil (or water) and salt, and spread into an even layer.

  • Bake 15 minutes. Then flip/toss to ensure even baking. Bake 5-10 minutes more or until tender and golden brown.

  • Taste and adjust flavor as needed, adding more lemon for acidity, salt for saltiness, or maple syrup for sweetness. Set aside.

  • Assemble salad by adding greens to a serving bowl and topping with roasted sweet potato and avocado. Sprinkle on hemp seeds (optional), and serve with dressing.

  • Leftovers keep (stored separately) in the refrigerator up to 3 days. Dressing will stay for 5-7 days.

More Farm Updates

For those just joining us this winter, here is your chance to elevate your entire year with an abundance of fresh, locally grown veggies every season.
Those who have started in our main season CSA, you know the drill!

Don't miss this opportunity as we have been in growing demand. Same times and locations for this coming year, and amazing fresh veggies—Spring Summer and Fall!
Secure your share now and make every season a celebration of delectable, farm-fresh delights

Tips when renewing your share for 2024

  1. After you select your pick-up location you will be able to select your desired share option

    (26 or 13 weeks, apply here if you wish to request Reduced Price Share)

  2. Be sure to select -YES- as a returning shareholder to receive discount automatically before checking out

  3. Checkout! (if having issues seeing your cart, on desktops it will be a cart icon at the top right corner and the bottom black bar will appear on your phone)

Pick-up Locations

Clagett Farm Share | Annapolis Share | Davidsonville Share

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-Olivia (she/they) and Will (he/him)

Week 2 of 8: First Snow

Beautiful winter lettuce coming to your kitchen this week!

This Week’s Share

Garlic
Winter Squash*
Apples*
Kale
Collards/Chard
Baby Bok Choi
Lettuce
Arugula/Spicy Mix

Pick-up will be, Saturday December 16 1:00-3:00 p.m.

All Winter CSA pick-up dates here

*Winter squash from Potomac Vegetable Farms, apples from our donation partner Shabach through West Virginia state surplus

Farm Updates:

Hey everyone from Olivia and Will!

We are looking forward to the second week of the winter shares, and hope you’re excited for some different vegetables this week. It was awesome to harvest all of the greens from outside two weeks ago, and now to see all our indoor crops that have been slowly bulking up over time looking ready to cut.

You’ll see a different variety of bok choi this week; it is naturally smaller and denser, and has a wide green stem instead of a straight white stem. We find it really fun to experience different varieties of the foods we already know and love, it keeps things interesting in the kitchen. There is also so much gorgeous multicolored lettuce this week, so get artistic making a big salad!

Below is a side by side comparison showing the day this tunnel was planted full of seedlings on Halloween, and how it looks today, right before its first harvest!

Outside of the vegetables, we’ve been doing a lot of maintenance and organization - pulling irrigation lines and supplies from fields, organizing and cleaning spaces across the farm, and inventorying supplies. It’s a lot of little tasks that set us up for success in the spring/summer when we need to focus entirely on the growing and harvesting side of farming.

This past week, we woke up to the first dusting of snow on the ground. It wasn’t a lot, but it didn’t melt immediately, and it was the first true test of how cold resilient our mature plants actually are. …

We’re happy to say that all the kale and collards outside were snug up under their row cover, and everything indoors were a little grumpy but cheered back up with some sun later in the day. And the greens seemed even sweeter from it!

High tunnel full of vegetables with snow outside and a man inside

Vegetables inside are warm and protected while the snow outside still hasn’t melted.

Butterkin squash pie:

This week you’re taking home Olivia’s favorite ever winter squash, the butterkin, which we sourced from our farmer friends who have been growing over in Vienna, Virginia for almost 60 years.

This squash is a pie pumpkin crossed with a butternut squash. It is round and looks like a short tan pumpkin, but the flesh inside has all the sweetness and firm texture of the best butternut you’ve ever eaten.

You can roast it in the oven with the peel still on and then scoop out the flesh to blend into a soup, vegan mac-n-cheese, or a simple side dish with brown sugar. You can toast the seeds with some spices for a crunch soup topping too. You can peel and cube and caramelize it in the oven to toss with pasta or over rice. OR if you’re ready to get fancy, you can make an amazing alternative to pumpkin pie for whatever holiday meal you might be having this year. Options galore! Recipe above - enjoy!

More Farm Updates

Lamb options are still available but they are selling fast!
Ground beef bundles will last the rest of the year 10 for $70
We are also offering roast bundles that are perfect center pieces to share with families over the holidays
Briskets | Chuck | Rump | London Broil

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-Olivia (she/they) and Will (he/him)

Week 1 of 8: First Winter Share!

This Week’s Share

Garlic
Winter Squash
Spicy Mix | Arugula
Turnips | Radishes
Carrots
Kale | Collards
Onions

Pick-up will be, Saturday December 2 1:00-3:00 p.m.

All Winter CSA pick-up dates here

Farm Updates:

We’ve had some cold nights here, and our main growing season has officially ended. The winter season is upon us! It’s typically a season where we get a lot of clean-up and improvement projects done before the main growing season next year.

So with that, we’ve been glad to have some time off and slowdown in the field, because there’s plenty to stay busy with now that we are adding growing and harvesting more food into the mix!

Managing the temperature and moisture levels of all our winter growing crops is a big task for us right now. During the day, we need to open greenhouses/vents and remove row cover (a light permeable fabric that keeps crops snuggly and warm, photographed below) if it hits a certain temperature to regulate temperature and humidity.

Then at night, depending on temperature, we may need to close all the tunnels and replace row cover. Shew! But we cannot be more thrilled to have fresh food going into these colder months.

A panorama of row cover in a high tunnel

Coming up, we’re going to be working more on putting up the third and final high tunnel. As for the rest, we have kept putting the final details on the 2 others structures that are complete.

We recently installed solar panels so that we can run the vents, fans, thermostat and other electrical bits in all of the tunnels from one source. Soon, we’ll install some side cranks and some vents to the middle tunnel as well. Seeing the landscape change with the building of these tunnels is extremely exciting – it is wild to see what a few of people, some hard work and time can do!

Solar panels mounted to a brace made of wooden pallets

A note from your farmers:

 We want to thank you again for participating in this new endeavor!

While we know you may already be aware of how valuable to purchase your food this way. There are other ways to buy your produce that offer convenience and ease, but you have made an intentional choice to buy into a CSA program where you get your food directly from the farm – a powerful choice that has so many benefits for the farmers, the natural world, and to you.

  • For farmers - CSAs allow farmers to spend less time on marketing and sales, meaning they can spend more time growing fresh, high quality food.

  • For the natural world – Clagett uses regenerative practices and focuses on environmental conservation and resilience.

  • For you and your community – purchasing directly from a farm means that you get direct access to fresh great-tasting and nutritious food. Not to mention a direct understanding of where and how your food is grown. As well, at Clagett we are also committed to improving accessibility of fresh produce for our neighbors who need food assistance through donations. 

Your choice allows us to keep this connection growing stronger each season. And with that we are excited to step into this new season to hand out some winter favorites and some tasty items that may be new to you!

More Farm Updates

We currently have lots of grass-fed beef cuts available for the chilly months
Lamb is also available for pre-order now!

Please join our meat mailing list to get special meat updates

See you at the first pickup Saturday!

-Olivia (she/they pronouns) and Will (he/him)

PS: We couldn’t do it without the entire team, especially Dave on equipment and maintenance, Elissa on marketing and sales, Jared guiding us and dreaming big for environmental impact, and Alex keeping both the Bay and our animals healthy!

Week 26 of 26: Last week of the main season!

This Week’s Share

Garlic Cloves
Sweet Potatoes
Tatsoi | Bok Choi
Turnips
Arugula
Kale | Collards | Cabbage
Poblanos

Clagett Farm Pick-up’s
Wednesday 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Annapolis Pick-up
Thursday 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Davidsonville Pick-up
Friday 4:00- 6:00 p.m.

Please do not take more than 2 shares per pick-up! We try our best to accommodate doubles at the end but triples or more are just not possible!

Farm Updates:

Well, that is a wrap for 2023, and what a spectacular season. We had a wonderful team this season and it was reflected in so many of the successes. It is bittersweet as always to be here in the this week and know after a week off we will miss seeing you all and picking food for you!
Always enjoying a highlight reel down memory lane, here are some of our favorite moments of 2023 below.

This season we felt incredibly proud of the share’s each week and we hope you also enjoyed the bounty we saw this year! From our endless onions and peppers, the eggplant that wouldn’t quit, so many greens, weeks of tomatoes that make you feel lost in time and salsa.

We truly appreciate your support and we hope to see you again for another season of fresh local food grown by us.

Information about shares will go out to this same mailing list in mid-January so be on the look-out if you wish to sign-up for the 2024 Main season CSA.

Thank you all so much for your support buying fresh and local food, and allowing us to keep doing what we love, farming!!

More Farm Updates

Winter CSA is Sold Out!

FYI: For those who have purchased, we will have an option to have bagged share’s left for the days following pick-ups to make this more flexible that can be pick-up at your convenience.

Emails will be coming shortly to get everyone on the Winter CSA updates!
See the dates here if you need to still mark them in your calendar!

Buy Fresh Buy Local

Other Add-on’s from our farm!

Beef still available while supplies last, and bulk Lamb is going on sale next week!
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Morris Hill Farm

Holiday Turkeys Available
Pick-up at Clagett Farm will be Friday November 19 , 3:00-5:00p.m.
or by appt once turkeys are dropped off if needed email us at Clagett to arrange

Clagett members will receive $5 off their order when you select ‘Clagett’ for pick-up, if you select another location be sure to put in the notes ‘clagett’ to receive discount.

Happy Holidays and New Year!!!

-The Clagett Crew

Week 25 of 26: More greens and bit of fresh ginger, and another week left

This Week’s Share

Garlic
Sweet Potatoes
Fresh Baby Ginger
Savoy Cabbage
Bok Choi
Turnips
Spicy Mix | Lettuce
Kale
Green, Mild & Hot peppers

Clagett Farm Pick-up’s
Wednesday 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Annapolis Pick-up
Thursday 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Davidsonville Pick-up
Friday 4:00- 6:00 p.m.

Please do not take more than 2 shares per pick-up! We try our best to accommodate doubles at the end but triples or more are just not possible!

U-Pick Items Available Now

Times open for U-picking
Tuesday-Saturday
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

In field D in front of the large three barns

  • Chili’s

In the herb and flower garden

  • Lemongrass- - you will notice one of the herb beds looking very full of grass- it is indeed this wonderful plant- to harvest just use a knife or sharp scissors to cut at the base of the soil to grab the entire plant as different parts will have many uses!

  • Parsley

  • Oregano

  • Flowers

Farm Updates:

We have one more week after this, it’s almost surreal! Such a bounty and for our final week we will clear out what remains from our Fall fields to send you off with as many Fall goodies as we can. It’s been a treasure to not have had a hard frost to take out all the peppers quite yet. Expect next week to have a bountiful mix of all the green goodies we have grown this Fall from the kale, salad greens, cabbages and the many root varieties.

Not ready for the fresh veggies to end?

Be sure to secure your Winter CSA before space runs out!
WE ARE ALMOST SOLD OUT!

We will have an option to have bagged share’s left for the days following pick-ups to make this more flexible that can be pick-up at your convenience.

Buy Fresh Buy Local

Bulk Beef Options Available Now

Same great amazing individual cuts just with amazing savings
our options range from just $10-$12 per pound

Morris Hill Farm

Pork | Poultry | Eggs | & More

DROP OFF THIS WEEK

Also note: Holiday Turkeys Available
Pick-up at Clagett Farm will be Friday November 19 , 3:00-5:00p.m.
or by appt once turkeys are dropped off if needed email us at Clagett to arrange

Clagett members will receive $5 off their order when you select ‘Clagett’ for pick-up, if you select another location be sure to put in the notes ‘clagett’ to receive discount.

Recipe:

Roasted Savoy Cabbage

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 head of savoy cabbage

  • salt and pepper

  • 3 tbsp. rapeseed or groundnut oil

  • 300ml (1¼ cup) beef or vegetable stock

  • 2 tbsp. butter

  • 2 tbsp. dry breadcrumbs

  • 2 tbsp. grated Parmesan

  • a few sprigs of thyme, leaves stripped

Instructions

1. Remove the outer leaves from the cabbage and trim the base. Cut it crosswise into quarters.

2. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F

3. Heat 2 tbsp. of the oil in an ovenproof casserole or skillet with a lid (or borrow a just about fitting lid from another pan). Arrange the cabbage quarters in the skillet and cook over medium-high heat for 5 minutes on each cut side, until charred.

4. Turn them cut sides up, lower the heat and add the stock and butter. Cover with a lid and transfer to the oven for 20 minutes.

5. In the meantime toss together the breadcrumbs, Parmesan, thyme and the remaining tablespoon of oil. After the 20 minutes lift the lid from the cabbage dish, sprinkle the breadcrumb mix over the quarters and return to the oven, uncovered, for another 10 minutes.

6. Serve as a side with fish, sausages, pork or just on its own with crusty bread.

-The Clagett Crew

Week 24 of 26: Two Weeks Remain

This Week’s Share

Garlic
Sweet Potatoes
Red Cabbage
Bok Choi
Radishes | Turnips
Lettuce | Arugula
Kale | Collards
Green Peppers
Chilis & Mild peppers

Easiest to view on computer or larger screen, so you can use the search feature!

U-Pick Items Available Now

Times open for U-picking
Tuesday-Saturday
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

In field D in front of the large three barns

  • Chili’s

In the field G2, Across from the side parking lot by the farm CSA pick-up

  • Flowers

  • Parsley- Cut this plant down to where you see new growth starting at the center, try not to cut down to the soil line

In the herb and flower garden

  • Lemongrass- - you will notice one of the herb beds looking very full of grass- it is indeed this wonderful plant- to harvest just use a knife or sharp scissors to cut at the base of the soil to grab the entire plant as different parts will have many uses!

Farm Updates:

Next week we will be getting into something newer we have been growing the last few years in some of our extra retired high tunnel space that many of you will be excited to see again this year. Our fresh ginger!

Growing in this space allows us to create a warmer environment in the cooler Spring and Fall to the give this crop the right amount of time in the sunlight to produce a sizeable bulb.

The last weeks we will see a lot of the goodies like the sweet potatoes, Kale’s, lettuce, whatever roots we have left in our Fall field will be coming back in from harvest, holding strong. And until frost really strikes us, we will still be pulling peppers too. Eggplant has been fading hard the last week, so if we find any this will certainly be the last week.

We are excited to have a lot of really awesome share’s to send you all off into the winter season remembering us fondly. Let’s savor the last of these few weeks!

Not ready for the fresh veggies to end?

Be sure to secure your Winter CSA before space runs out!

(Less than 10 shares remain)

Buy Fresh Buy Local

Bulk Beef Options Available Now

Same great amazing individual cuts just with amazing saving
our options range from just $10-$12 per pound

We only have 20 bottles of honey remaining, now is the time to secure yours before the holiday season

Morris Hill Farm

Pork | Poultry | Eggs | & More

Holiday Turkeys Available!
Pick-up at Clagett Farm will be Friday November 19 , 3:00-5:00p.m.
,or by appt once turkeys are dropped off if needed email us at Clagett to arrange

Clagett members will receive $5 off their order when you select ‘Clagett’ for pick-up, if you select another location be sure to put in the notes ‘clagett’ to receive discount.

Drop-off will be next week for all non-turkey orders

Recipe:

Chinese Cabbage and Apple Salad

Ingredients

  • 1 Chinese cabbage

  • 1-2 small apples

Wasabi Salad Dressing

  • 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar

  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil

  • ½ tbsp sugar

  • 1 tsp wasabi paste (note 3)

Garnish (optional)

  • Small green salad leaves

Instructions

  1. If the stalk (whiter part) of the cabbage leaves are very wide, halve them vertically. Shred the leaves crosswise and put them in a bowl.

  2. Sprinkle two pinches of salt over the cabbage, mix and leave for 5 minutes to wilt the cabbage.

  3. While wilting the cabbage, add all the Wasabi Salad Dressing ingredients to a jar , put the lid on and shake well until the sugar is dissolved and there are no wasabi lumps.

  4. Quarter the apple vertically and remove the core. Then slice the apple thinly (about 3mm / ⅛" thick), perpendicular to the first cut so that every apple piece has a band of red skin.

  5. Squeeze the water out of the cabbage as much as possible and transfer to a mixing bowl.

  6. Put the apple pieces with the cabbage and mix, ensuring that the apple pieces are scattered evenly.

  7. Pour the Wasabi Salad Dressing over and mix well ensuring that salad pieces are well coated in the dressing.

  8. Transfer the salad to a large bowl to share or individual bowls. Scatter green leaves (if using) to decorate.

    Recipe Notes

    1. used about a quarter of the whole Chinese cabbage which was not very large.

    The weight of my apple was about 160g / 5.6oz. After removing the core, it weighed 130g / 4.6oz.

    2. I made wasabi paste from wasabi powder. It had a very strong kick when freshly made. If you are using wasabi paste in a tube, you may need to adjust the quantity as the heat varies.

    3. If you are unsure of how much kick you can tolerate, you may start with smaller quantity of the wasabi in the dressing. Taste test, then adjust to your liking.

-The Clagett Crew