Hellgate CSA

Creamed Sweet Potatoes w/ Roasted Figs

- (at least) 4 medium to large Sweet Potatoes/ yams
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 6 to 8 oz. of fresh Black Mission figs (approximately 8 figs)

Hello all CSA Members!

Please save the date of December 1, 2009 and come to the Hellgate CSA Season End Potluck dinner. The dinner will be at the Steinway Reform Church Fellowship Hall starting at 7:00 PM. All are welcome including children and friends! Bring a dish and special bonus points for including a CSA item in your dish.

Steinway Reform Church is located at 41st Street and Ditmars Boulevard.

Hope to see everyone there!

Pear Ginger Oatmeal muffins

3/4 cup white flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1/2 cup or a little more applesauce
6 medium pears chopped
candied ginger to taste

preheat oven to 350 degrees

combine dry ingredients in one bowl. Combine egg, applesauce and oil in large bowl and add dry ingredients, then chopped pears and ginger.
bake until lightly browned on top, about 15-20 min.

Vegetable Share
garlic
sweet potatoes
winter radish mix (black Spanish, China rose, masato aka watermelon radish, daikon)
cabbage (savoy and green)
mei quing choi (a type of pak choi)

Herb Share
thyme
mint

Fruit Share:
Mutzu apples
Empire apples
Concord grapes
White concord grapes (I think, maybe just green)
 

Unfortunately, Lewis Waite had an issue with the turkey orders. Please see their message below for instructions on confirming that your order was correctly processed:

IF YOU HAVE PLACED A HOLIDAY TURKEY ORDER BEFORE OCT 14TH, you can use the PLACE AN ORDER menu choice as usual to place a new order for the additional items you want. If you already have an order for additional items, use the menu choice SEE MY EXISTING ORDERS to add other items as usual until your order deadline. Your orders are intact and were not changed.

Good morning all!

Please try to place your Thanksgiving Turkey order at midnight tomorrow (we've been given a little extra time from the farm!). This is the third notice for Thanksgiving Turkey orders so hopefully you've all had time to plan your turkey needs for the holiday, but see below details from Nancy and Allen Brown.  Make sure to go to the special menu item titled "Place your Thanksgiving Turkey orders here" on the website and enjoy your wonderful turkey this year!

Note from Lewis Waite Farm:

Vegetable Share

lettuce
sweet potatoes
sweet peppers
anaheim chiles (sweet and hot)
purple cauliflower
broccoli rabe
purple tip white turnips

Fruit Share:
Honeycrisp apples
Candycrisp apples
Bosc pears

Meat & Dairy this week, too!

Tuesday, November 10
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Reading, Slides and Signing

Novella Carpenter grows fruit and vegetables on a vacant lot and shares them with her neighbors. She also raises (and dispatches) chicken, ducks and rabbits. Meet Novella and hear her gritty, sometimes brutal, tale of farm life on the mean streets of Oakland. Her memoir, by turns joyous and sad, is refreshingly honest. A few of her Brooklyn farming friends will be on hand to talk about their projects too. Read more about Novella in a recent New York Times interview.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is November 5th at midnight, and delivery is on November 10th.

November is here and we're down to our last few weeks of the 2009 season. We still have lots left to bring in to our shareholders. Sweet potatoes have been a plentiful crop so expect those several times; Kales, we raise 5 types, plus collard greens will be on your late fall menu. Turnips, 3 types plus rutabagas; winter radishes, 5 types including diakons; Asian greens, 8 types and several types of Italian greens including broccoli raab, arugula and radichio all will be brought in.