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Crop
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Half Share Qty/Price
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Full Share Qty/Price
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Sweet
Pepper
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1lb/$3.50
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1lb/$3.50
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Sungold Tomatoes
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1pint/$2.75
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2pints/$5.50
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Onion
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1lb/$2.00
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2lb/$4.00
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Winter
Squash
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$3.00
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$6.00
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Cucumbers
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1lb/$2.00
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1b/$2.00
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TOTAL
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$13.25
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$21.00
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Recipe of the Week
How to Prepare Winter Squash
The simplest
way I know how is to slice it in half, and put face down on a baking sheet,
adding a little water. Place in a 350 degree oven, and bake for about an
hour, depending on size. You’ll know its done when you can easily
pierce the skin and flesh with a fork.
Winter
squash can be stored for many months, so don’t worry about getting to
it this week. In fact, most of them get sweeter with age, especially the
butternut.
You’re
either receiving butternut, acorn or spaghetti squash this week. The
butternut are tan in color, the acorn are small, round and green, and the
spaghetti squash are the striped ones. This is an interesting variety to
me, and I wasn’t aware it would be so stripey,
even though its variety name is “Stripetti”…
when its cooked, remove the seeds and fork it out of the skin. It will act
like spaghetti, and its pretty cool! I top it with tomato sauce.
What’s
Happening on the Farm
As
this is the 16th week of the CSA (wow, already??) and we have
nine weeks to go, I’ve been looking back on the weekly totals to see
where we stand. It looks as though the average for the half shares is $15 a
week, which is more than the $13 weekly average we started with. (Full
shares is about $22) Therefore, as we’re coming into a point in the
season where we have limited quantities of veggies (waiting for the second
tomatoes to ripen, and waiting patiently for the fall garden to grow)
we’re contemplating taking a week’s break. We hadn’t
planned on doing this at the beginning of the year, but now realize that
even we need a vacation! Most of the CSA programs do schedule 2 or even 3
weeks off during the season, and now I see the benefits. We’re
tentatively contemplating doing this next week, so there would be no delivery Wednesday and Thursday,
August 22-23. I will let you all know for sure very soon (by the
weekend) so you’re not stranded anywhere with no box!
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