Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you all have a wonderful holiday and that, if you’re in our area, you manage to keep warm! We’ve spent much of the early part of this week preparing in various ways for the extreme cold front we have coming through. Temperatures are predicted to drop into the low 20s Wednesday night, not rise above freezing on Thursday, and then drop to a shocking 18 degrees on Thursday night! I’m double- and triple-covering beds in the hoop house and we’ve also taken various measures to try to keep the outside walk-in refrigerator where we store all of our crops post-harvest from dipping below freezing and causing damage to already harvested crops.
With this weather in the forecast, we’ve harvested off most of the rest of the crops growing outside of the hoop house with the exception of carrots. In honor of this cold-hardy veggie, check out this excellent recipe for Pasta Salad with Roasted Carrots and Sunflower Seed Dressing. This recipe calls for precisely the super-thin (and super-sweet) carrots that we are currently growing, a delicacy you can usually only find at farmers markets. See below for our full harvest list and we’ll see you on Saturday at Burke, rain or shine!
Farmers Katie & Mike
This week at the market:
- Salad mix
- Head lettuce
- Arugula
- Winter salad mix
- Spinach
- Radishes
- Carrots
- Bok Choi
- Salad turnips
- Purple-top turnips
- Red Russian kale
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