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November 16, 2022

Our 2023 CSA season is on sale now at our GrownBy page, or print out our CSA Registration Form. Signing up now is extremely helpful to us in our planning for next season, so if you know you will participate, please don’t wait. We are offering sliding scale pricing once again, so you can self select the tier that fits for you. And while payment in full is helpful for us, you can start with a deposit and then pay the balance in the spring, or choose a weekly or monthly payment plan, with automatic payments made through a credit card. Thank you in advance for helping us get a start on the 2023 season!

Kohlrabi & Fennel Salad

from www.brooklynsupper.com

Ingredients

• 1 small bulb fennel well-cleaned and trimmed
• 1 small tender kohlrabi, peeled and trimmed
• 1/2 red onion sliced thin into half-moons
• 1 cup minced flat leaf parsley
• zest of 1 lemon
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• salt and pepper to taste
• pinch of red pepper flakes
• fennel leaves

Instructions

1. Julienne the fennel and kohlrabi. Toss with the red onion and parsley. Combine the olive oil and and lemon juice, drizzle on the dressing, and add a few pinches of salt and tons of pepper. Taste, adjust salt and acid levels. Plate and give each serving a good squeeze of lemon juice, a pinch of red pepper flakes, and garnish with parsley and fennel leaves.

Carrot Kohlrabi Fritters

Adapted from www.karalydon.com

INGREDIENTS

For the Fritters:

• 1 spring onion, minced
• 3 small carrots, peeled and grated
• 2 small kohlrabi, leaves removed, peeled and grated
• 1/4 cup chopped parsley
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/4 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 3 tbsp olive oil

For the Yogurt Sauce:

• 1 cup low-fat Greek yogurt
• 1/2 tbsp lemon zest
• 1/2 tbsp chopped parsley
• 1 tbsp avocado oil
• 1/8 tsp salt

INSTRUCTIONS

For the Fritters:

1. Combine carrots, kohlrabi, and spring onion in a cheese cloth* and wring out any excess water. Transfer to a medium mixing bowl.
2. Add egg, flour, garlic powder, salt and pepper and mix to coat evenly.
3. Add olive oil to cast iron skillet (or a regular frying pan is OK) over medium-high heat. Once oil is hot enough, drop 1/4 cup of fritter batter into the pan and flatten out with a spatula. Depending on the size of your skillet, cook a few fritters at a time, leaving space in-between. Cook for a 3-5 minutes on each side, or until golden-brown and crispy.
4. Transfer cooked fritters to a paper towel to absorb some oil. Serve with yogurt sauce.

For the Yogurt Sauce:

1. Mix yogurt, lemon zest, parsley, avocado oil, and salt until combined. Serve alongside fritters.

NOTES

*If you don’t have a cheese cloth, add veggies to a strainer and sprinkle with salt and let sit for 10 minutes and then wring out excess liquid with hands.

**To save time, shred vegetables in a food processor instead of hand grating them.

Reminder emails from GrownBy: GrownBy sends reminder emails ahead of your CSA pickup day each week for our 20-week subscribers, and uses a default of picking up alternating weeks, beginning with either week 1 or 2 for our 10-week subscribers. We know that many people switch pickup days as needed, and have a different pickup plan than the alternating weeks. As a result, you may receive some reminder emails that don’t match with your pickup plan or changes. Know that we are working with GrownBy to make adjustments to the auto reminder emails. Thank you for patience and understanding on this.

On-Farm Pickups – Friday, 2:30-6:30pm

Safety is our top priority for everyone on the farm, and Covid remains a risk in our community. With that in mind we’ll plan to move forward with two options for our on-farm CSA pickup, and will adjust as needed during the season:

1. Outdoor, drive thru pickup: Pull in to the barn yard area between the red barn and white house for a drive thru pickup of your CSA, which will be bagged for you in advance.
2. Barn pickup, fill your own bag, masks optional: Park in the parking area on the north side of the barn, walk down the steps and and enter the barn through the east barn door entry. Our harvest will be set out in bins with instructions for you to select and bag your own produce. Staff and/or volunteers will be there to help you as needed. Please bring your own bag or box. Please help protect our staff and community, do not enter the barn if you are sick, have tested positive for covid in the last 10 days, or have had a known high risk exposure.

• ALWAYS DRIVE SLOWLY at the farm – there is often programming here for kids, and the farm family with young children live here.
• When U-Pick crops are available, we recommend doing U-Pick first, then picking up your CSA when you are done.
• See map in the section above.

Delivery to District – Wednesdays, 3:30-7:30pm

• Located at 470 James St. at State St.
• Go to Door 004 for District Athletic Club (see map below).
• CSA boxes will be stacked through the door and down the hall in the gym kitchen area.
• Pick up time is 3:30-7:30pm on Wednesdays.
• Take only one box of produce unless otherwise indicated, all boxes will be the same. Return your box each week and pick up a new one.

Egg CSA Subscriptions – sold out; will make more available if possible

• Pickup along with your vegetables on your regular pickup day and location.
• Massaro egg cartons can be returned to us as long as they are in good, clean condition. We are not accepting non-Massaro egg cartons at this time.

Farm Store – for on-farm pick up only; not available for New Haven delivery

• Our eggs, honey and tomato products will be available each week as long as we have them. Purchase at pickup along with your produce. Note – we reduced our flock of laying hens, and egg availability may be limited.
• Products from our partner farms and local vendors may be available as well.

Communications: We send out a weekly CSA newsletter during the harvest season, and additional messages throughout the year.  Please read them. There is often helpful information in them, or important updates that might answer questions you have.  We try to keep our website updated with those newsletters, and we also share news, stories and photos on facebook, twitter and instagram.

If you have a question, request, feedback, or need to be in touch for any reason, emailing us at [email protected] is the best means of communication. This email is checked regularly, and we do our best to respond quickly. We’d love to talk with you when you are here on the farm and we can usually be found around the barn during CSA pickup hours, so grab our ears, pick our brains, chat us up or tell us what’s on your mind!

Bags: Please do bring a reusable bag or box to take your produce home in. We will have compostable bags available for you if needed.

What if I miss a week?: If you are not able to make it to the farm to pick up your produce on a given week, you are welcome to have someone else pick up it up for you. Simply have them come to the farm or District on your behalf. Any produce that is not picked up will be donated, so know that it is put to good use! If you do miss a week, please understand that you are not entitled to additional produce on another week.

Produce Donations: Part of our mission and commitment to the community is to donate produce to local hunger relief organizations, which is more important than ever right now. To make this happen, we harvest additional produce for donation on CSA distribution days. Any produce not picked up by our CSA members is added to that donation. Thus, if you can’t make it one week to get your vegetables, know that your produce will go to people in need and is never wasted.

Want more of our produce?: As our harvest allows, we will offer additional produce for sale at the farm. If you don’t see something you want available in the store, please do let us know when you are here and we’ll see if we can offer it. We will be at the Q House market in Hamden on Wednesday afternoons beginning in late June, and some weekend markets again beginning in August.

Payment plans, and final payments: If you signed up through GrownBy for weekly or monthly payment plans, your card will be charged automatically. Please make sure your card is up to date. If you paid by check and you still have a balance for the CSA, please send in your final payments, or email your payment plan to: [email protected].