Thanksgiving Monday was a very windy & chilly day – so we stayed mostly indoors and enjoyed a day off.

But by late afternoon I was craving fresh air and ventured outside to grab some photos for this newsletter and check on the vegetables.

The sun was shining, the colours were bright – a glorious autumn day!

What’s in the box?

Chinese cabbage, salad turnips, lettuce mix, spinach, edamame, fall radishes, sweet peppers, green onions.

• We have some beautiful Chinese cabbage this week! One variety is green with a pale creamy centre and the other is more frilly and looser with a more yellow centre. Both are delicious and excellent in salads, coleslaws, stirfries …

• Salad turnips (remember them from spring?) are small, round, white turnips that resemble radishes, but without the bite (usually)! Mild in flavour, crisp, and quite tender, they are best eaten raw – simply wash, cut off the tops and enjoy! They can also be stir fried, sautéed, or steamed – both the turnips & the green tops.

• The salad greens – lettuce mix & spinach – are loving the cool temperatures and the rain over the weekend.
• Enjoy the final batch of edamame for this year. Edamame freezes well, if you want to preserve some for the winter. Boil the pods in water for 3-5 minutes then pop the beans out, and freeze them in a freezer bag. We like to add them to our winter salads, soups or casseroles …
• Fall radishes, sweet peppers (weather permitting) and green onions complete this week’s box.

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Around the farm this week …

The weather has been awesome of late, and we have been picking some amazing vegetables – especially for October!

The last planting of 2023 – our lettuce mix. Will it mature in time for the last CSA at the end of October? Under the white insect cover is some Chinese broccoli.

The fall cover crops are germinating nicely – hoping for a carpet of green before winter.

We have enjoyed some beautiful fall skies lately.