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Basket contents: Carrots, onions, choice of baby pac choi or Swiss chard, potatoes, pumpkin, tomatoes, choice of leeks or beets, lettuce, parsley, ground cherries Recipe of the week: Elegant Oven-Poached Fish This week we thought images could tell the story better than words! With Steve Heller, farm-helper extraordinaire (and also Eby’s father!), we brought in the final load of pumpkins, and squash a couple of weeks ago.  You’ve been getting pie pumpkins in your baskets, but we also have large…

Basket Contents: Choice of leeks or beets, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, edamame, choice of basil or cilantro, lettuce, choice of eggplant or arugula, peppers, pumpkin, garlic scapes Recipe of the week: Grandma Maxine’s Pumpkin Soup Well, it finally happened: hard frosts!  Meteorologists say that autumn officially begins on Sept 22nd, when the Equator is exactly aligned with the Sun, but we disagree.  For us, autumn always arrives with the first hard frost.  We got our first hard frost last Monday night. …

Basket Contents: Edamame or tomatillo, ground cherries, zucchinis or cucumbers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, broccoli or cauliflower, peppers, eggplant or arugula, rosemary or thyme, carrots Recipe of the week: How to cook Edamame! As the temperatures drop and the days get shorter, we are in full swing of harvests of winter vegetables.  Each week, we harvest not only what is in the basket, but we are also spending time harvesting carrots, potatoes, squash and other veggies that will be stored for…

Basket contents: Peppers, swiss chard, cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, choice of zucchinis or cucumbers, carrots, mesclun, cilantro, ground cherries Recipe of the week: Swiss Chard Dolmades with Tomato Sauce Brrr!  Fall is coming!  We had our first frost scare after a chilly drop-off in Montreal last Thursday night.  Luckily we didn’t actually get any frosting in the field and most of our frost-sensitive crops made it through.  This is only our second fall in the area, but it seems that this…

Basket contents: Beans, ground cherries or melon, eggplant, lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, broccoli, cabbage or cauliflower, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes. Recipe of the week: Zucchini relish September!  Egads- does this mean it’s fall?  It sure is starting to feel that way around here!  Last week we brought all of the onions into the greenhouse to cure for storage and this week we’re onto potatoes.  The pumpkins are looking mighty ready as well, but we’re hoping to hold them back a few weeks…