Third Week Of Our CSA’s Fall Season
Our Online Marketplace opens this morning, October 11th, and closes at 5pm Sunday October 13th, for a Tuesday October 15th delivery.
What’s Up at Market
Abby Lane is now at market but, sad to say, I had to ask them to bring Kaffir lime leaves and they won’t have lemongrass. If you want the lime leaves, tell me now. We’ll see if they start bringing the spices but for now they have piles of the most gorgeous peppers of all kinds – from hottest to sweetest. They also have pawpaws and jujubes. Let me know in special orders if you want anything unique and not on our marketplace. Patrick is back in the carrot business with – I think -Boleros, large, straight and snappy. He also has beautiful Napa cabbage about 2# ea at $2.75/#. This price is a song compared to what the prices will be out of season. Time to enjoy Asian salads or make your Kim Chi.
Broccolini is done and now coming from the Co-op. Tina might have a third crop but not right now. On the other hand there was a lot of broccoli and cauliflower fresh picked and larger baby bok choi bundles of two. TIna sent the picklers to market and Abby Lane has their Persians at their stand. Grapes and blackberries are done for the year though I can get grapes of all kinds at the Co-op so just ask. Antonio has strawberries and I’ll check at Wandering Roots too if those from last week weren’t up to snuff with flavor. He still has figs as well. I listed Fuyu persimmons from the Co-op on sale this week.
At Jessie’s Cosmic Garden
I’m declaring this the most amazing tomato season ever, at least in my 25 years here, and their still coming on. The coming chill might slow things down, but I’ll button down the greenhouse until they have all been picked. The remaining corn will be small ears and I’ll peel them to make sure they look like a nice addition to a meal. I’ll estimate a price for all you order fairly. I have Fall Greens and cilantro in addition to rainbow chard, herbs and all the tomatoes. I can fill pepper orders except the cayenne which are coming on slow now but plenty on the bushes. I have one bush of jalapeños turning into chipotles which are red, even black and not as spicy.
The girls are still giving me around 8-10 eggs a day, so no need to parse them out yet, and when there is, there could be some pullet eggs to balance out the shortage. We shall see, and see what color they are. One of the teenagers continues to be larger with a longer neck that the others, kinda indicating a rooster, but time will tell. The newest kid, Chirpie, is tan and white, probably an olive egger. They sure do well growing up with their broodie mom’s and quickly take their place in the tribe from the time they first walk down the ramp.
Remember to VOTE!
Link to order form: https://www.heartofthesun.com/csamarketplace.htm
Cheers!
Jessie
Important Information (leaving this up for awhile)
I don’t like rules but prefer to suggest some guidelines for the successful running of our CSA. Anyone joining in the last few years has probably not received or been reminded of them. The Old-Timers are quite good about them but we had reminders on the old website that I didn’t include on this one so here goes (and I will leave this up here for a few weeks to catch everyone as well as including it in the link notice email).
Please…
- Watch your statements and leave a payment in your box for pickup when you are not going to cover the cost of what’s being delivered – or make a paypal payment, or stop by with it. Especially during Winter and early Spring Season, our bank balance can get pretty low if we don’t keep accounts topped up. If I use the debit card (often) the transaction is immediate.
- If you are not going to order, tell me well ahead – earlier in the week if its a recent decision and at least two weeks ahead if you are going on a trip or are going to be out for a week or more. I shouldn’t find this out when reminding you to order mid-day Sunday. This is especially desired if you are a regular microgreen customer as I seed them around 12-10 days ahead of harvest. The seed is expensive – making needless chicken treats something to avoid. With a heads up in time, I can plan to grow less.
- Put your boxes out ahead of delivery (will often be later in winter when we drive to Grants Pass). Leave payments taped in them or with a rock on top of them. And please return all my canning jars so I have something to put the next batch of whatever it is in them. Thank You, Very Very Much. I love you all and so do our farmers!
- Microgreens I’ve been thinking about microgreen parameters for some time since it’s heartbreaking to feed them to the chickens who like garbage with equal gusto. Most of my microgreen members have the same order every time they order. I would like to call these subscriptions that I can always fill. When folks order every once in a while I never know its coming and may or may not have seeded enough to cover their orders, though always have some for small orders. I’m trying not to waste pretty expensive seed. So here’s the new rulIf any ‘subscriber’ is going to be gone, give me a heads up 10 days ahead, when you get your Sunday order to check the week before your absence. I will tag all the order emails with a reminder. If you are planning to place a special order or you don’t order very often and want them when you’re planning to order, give me a heads up the same 10 days ahead so I can seed more. You’ll notice I am now using a different sunflower seed (the striped ones from the big sunflowers) so if you’ve drifted away from them in the past, please try again.
- Minimum Orders: ‘Back in the Day’ when we started the CSA, we had structured box prices and an 8-week period in which to spend your box value. Now we are all over the place and it only works well when an X number of people order and a Y number of people have orders over $100. In the old days the minimum order was $35 for the small box if ordering every week. I’m going to make that the minimum order for doorstep delivery. You can place smaller orders to pick up here on order day between 3:30 and 6:00.