This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Beets, Touchstone Gold: Smooth golden roots with bright yellow flesh retain their color when cooked. Excellent, sweet flavor.

• Celeriac: The big, bulbous celeriac in your share this week were harvested after our first frost of the season. As a result they have a delicious sweetness to share, but may show signs of cold damage to their tops. Just cut off the top as usual and peel for using your favorite way.

Season Comes to a Close: Thank You & See you Next Season

That’s right, it’s here, the last week of the 2014 CSA season has arrived. Thank you to you, our members, for another great season. Thank you to our generous and patient site hosts and site coordinators for offering their space and time for another season of successful pick-ups. And thank you to our awesome and hard working crew for seeding, planting, weeding, harvesting, irrigating, tractoring, washing, packing, and delivering all season long  in order to bring you your share of the harvest each week. You too can say thank you, just sign-up for next season because it’ll be just around the corner before you know it.

Don’t Want the SIO Goodness to End? 

Thinking Beyond the Winter?

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Beets, Cylindra: A wonderful heirloom from Denmark, this beet was made for slicing. The unique and long cylindrical beet produces much more uniform slices than round beets. They can be peeled raw like a carrot, or roasted whole and used as you would any other beet.

• Carrots: Enjoy both the large orange Bolero carrots, and the Purple Dragon carrots with their vibrant reddish-purple exterior and bright orange beneath the surface. Both types have a sweet and delicious flavor.

Thanksgiving Thoughts from the Farm

As you get together with friends and family this holiday and give thanks for the bounty that the harvest season has to provide we at Sauvie Island Organics want to give you a BIG THANK YOU for supporting community agriculture. We take pride in nourishing hundreds of families around the Portland area, and hope you are proud to call your self a member of SIO. We have just one more week of the season together, and definitely want to see you this winter or back in the spring.

Thanksgiving Pick-ups

There will be changes to days and/or times to some of our pick-up sites this week due to Thanksgiving.

All Tuesday pick-up sites will be as regularly scheduled on Tuesday, November 25^th and pick-up times will be the same.

All Wednesday pick-up sites will be delivered on Wednesday, November  26^th by 12pm (noon).

All Thursday pick-up sites will be moved to Tuesday, November 25^th and pick-up times will be the same as usual.

Pick-up at the Farm will be from 4:30pm Tuesday, November 25th through 5pm Sunday, November 30. 

New Winter Pick-up Site in Northwest Portland

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Carrots: The bright yellow Jaune du Doubs in your share this week are a French heirloom dating to the 19th century. Their sweet and distinctive flavor improves with cooking, and the smaller sized ones in your share this week may be just right for enjoying whole.

• Chicory, Pan di Zucchero: The beautiful elongated chicory in your share this week is a sugarloaf type, hence is sweeter flavor and long loaf like nature. This fall treat holds up well to sauteeing, but has great flavor fresh and hold up well against robust dressings, so why not treat yourself to a fresh fall salad.

Thanksgiving Pick-ups

There will be changes to days and/or times to some of our pick-up sites the week of Thanksgiving.

All Tuesday pick-up sites will be as regularly scheduled on Tuesday, November 25^th and pick-up times will be the same.

All Wednesday pick-up sites will be delivered on Wednesday, November  26^th by 12pm (noon).

All Thursday pick-up sites will be moved to Tuesday, November 25^th and pick-up times will be the same as usual.

Pick-up at the Farm will be from 4:30pm Tuesday, November 25th through 5pm Sunday, November 30. 

Planning for Thanksgiving

The big meal is just around the corner and by now you may be wondering what is in my share for the week of Thanksgiving? For those of you menu planning and making your shopping lists we are providing a preview of the share. Please take note this just forecast and the share is subject to change prior to Thanksgiving week.

This Week’s Share… Share Photo Coming Wednesday

Share Notes

• Brussels sprouts: An SIO first, our Brussels sprout plants actually started to bolt this fall as a result of the hotter, dryer, extended summer we experienced this  year. What that means for you is a smaller amount of sprouts in your share, but no less delicious. You can expect another round, which will be frost-kissed by this week’s weather, in your Thanksgiving Share.

• Carrots, Shin Kuroda: This Japanese carrot has short but thick roots, and is a tender, sweet, deeply orange colored delight. It’s known to perform well in heavier soils, so we put it to the test in our heavy clay soil zone and are loving the outcome. You too may notice their superior flavor, texture and color.

Planning for Thanksgiving

The big meal is just around the corner and by now you may be wondering what is in my share for the week of Thanksgiving? For those of you menu planning and making your shopping lists we are providing a preview of the share. Please take note this just forecast and the share is subject to change prior to Thanksgiving week.

Warm up this Winter with SIO

Cold dark and windy nights are upon us, and what better way to warm your house and soul then with SIO vegetables all winter long? We have just a few Winter Storage Shares remaining, and would love for you to join us. That said, now is the time to talk to your household, find a share partner if needed, and get your sign-up underway so you don’t miss out on the exciting opportunity.

Number of Deliveries: 7 (spanning 14 weeks)

Price: $610 (one share size)

The Bounty: beets, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celeriac, chicories, garlic, herbs, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, parsnips, potatoes, pie pumpkins, daikon radishes, shallots & numerous varieties of winter squash

Quantity: approximately 35 pounds per delivery, intended to last for the 2 weeks between deliveries

Delivery Dates:
Week of December 15 & 29, January 12 & 26, February 9 & 23 and March 9

Delivery locations:

• N: Grand Central Bakery @ 714 N Fremont
• SE: Grand Central Bakery @ 2230 SE Hawthorne
• SW: Food Front Co-op on SW Capitol Highway
• NW: The Farm 13615 NW Howell Park Rd
• Other possible locations to be announced

Please email us at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com and we will sign you up for this exciting new option.
Checks can be mailed to: SIO, 20233 NW Sauvie Island Rd. Portland, OR 97231
or Call the office 503-621-6921 to pay by Credit Card

Calling All CSA Share Containers

Got a stack of black crates by the door, on your porch, or in your car? Chances are you are not alone. Help the farm by returning any CSA Share Containers you may have accumulated. Every season we are charged a fee by the company we work with for each container that is not returned, and appreciate your help in returning them in a timely manner. Thank you in advance.

Last Week of Salad Share

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Carrots: The bright yellow Jaune du Doubs in your share this week are a French heirloom dating to the 19th century. Their sweet and distinctive flavor improves with cooking, and the smaller sized ones in your share this week may be just right for enjoying whole.

• Celeriac, also known as celery root, is a variety of celery grown for its edible bulbous root crown. This unique looking vegetable will appear a few times in your share in the mid to late fall. Do not be put off by its rough exterior; inside is a surprisingly delicious and versatile vegetable.

• Chicory: The beautiful Castelfranco chicory in your share this week, vibrant green flecked with red markings, makes a robust salad ingredient and also performs beautifully with braising, in soups, and sauteed.

For Your Information

Last Week for Salad Share: November 11-13

Last Week for Family & Half Share: December 2-4

Veteran’s Day: PDC, Metro and PSOB pick-up sites will be delivered on Wednesday 11/12 next week. All other Tuesday sites will remain Tuesday delivery on 11/11.

Week of Thanksgiving: No pick-ups on Thursday 11/27. All Thursday deliveries will be on Tuesday 11/25. All Wednesday deliveries will be delivered by 12pm (noon) on Wednesday 11/26.

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Kohlrabi: Get ready for this fall flavor delight, it is a favorite among the farm crew once again this season. The Kossak and Gigante varieties of kohlrabi in your share this week are not only large in size, but also also big in delicious flavor. With crisp, juicy, mildly sweet flesh it is really great raw. See the recipes from Katherine for some great cooked preparations as well.

The Cooking Continues this Winter

We know that you love Katherine’s recipes on our blog (see this week’s Recipe Post below), and there are two ways your cooking can continue to be inspired by her this winter. Sign up for the Winter Storage Share and receive a free subscription to her Seasonal Recipe Database. Katherine’s database includes over 500+ recipes. Once logged-in you will have 24-hour access to a deep and searchable archive, illustrated by many photos of finished dishes. This means that all recipes, tips, techniques and ideas for all vegetables will be at your fingertips. If, however you choose, not to sign up for the Winter Storage Share you can still individually subscribe to her database for $25/year. Join us for the Winter Share by emailing us at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com. Or visit Katherine’s website www.cookwithwhatyouhave.com to learn more about her database. Either way Katherine will continue to give us all confidence in the kitchen.

Winter is Coming, Don’t Get Left in the Cold

Cold dark nights are fast approaching, and what better way to warm your house and soul then with SIO vegetables all winter long? As hoped, the initial sign-up period for our first Winter Storage Share is going great. That said, now is the time to talk to your household, find a share partner if needed, and get your sign-up underway so you don’t miss out on the exciting opportunity.

Number of Deliveries: 7 (spanning 14 weeks)

Price: $610 (one share size)

The Bounty: beets, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celeriac, chicories, garlic, herbs, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, parsnips, potatoes, pie pumpkins, daikon radishes, shallots & numerous varieties of winter squash

Quantity: approximately 35 pounds per delivery, intended to last for the 2 weeks between deliveries

Delivery Dates:

• Week of December 15 & 29, January 12 & 26, February 9 & 23 and March 9

Delivery locations:

• N: Grand Central Bakery @ 714 N Fremont
• SE: Grand Central Bakery @ 2230 SE Hawthorne
• SW: Food Front Co-op on SW Capitol Highway
• NW: The Farm 13615 NW Howell Park Rd
• Other possible locations to be announced
• Please email us at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com and we will sign you up for this exciting new option.

Checks can be mailed to: SIO, 20233 NW Sauvie Island Rd. Portland, OR 97231
or Call the office 503-621-6921 to pay by Credit Card

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Chicory: The chicory family (closely related to lettuce) is a wide and varied group-they can be loose-leafed or tightly-headed, tapered or round, smooth-leaved or frilled. They are also brightly colored, ranging from purest white and pale yellow to bright green or maroon. All members of the chicory family are favored for the bitterness that they all share, unlike lettuces which are chosen for their delicacy. Radicchio is the chicory featured in your share this week, and is also the most commonly know too.

• Potatoes: The gorgeous Yukon Gem potatoes in your share this week, a newer relative of the well know Yukon Gold, have been selected for their resistance to blight. Here in the Pacific Northwest finding varieties that exhibit natural resistance to blight is critical as that is one of the main disease pressures that can effect the success of a potato crop in the field and storage. You may also notice some potatoes have a pink splash around the eyes which is normal and safe to eat, and is actually a characteristic quality of the Yukon Gem.

• Winter Squash: From mid-fall and through the end of the season, a variety of winter squash will be in your share. Unlike summer squash, these varieties have thicker skins to help them store longer, and starchy flesh that is tasty when cooked. The Hubbard in particular has a tough skin to cut, but the mild yet deep flavor and creamy texture makes it worth the effort.

The Bounty Continues this Winter at Grand Central Bakery

We are happy to bring you an extension of our regular season shares with our first ever Winter Storage Share. We are selling a limited number of shares, so don’t miss the chance to join us from mid-December 2014 until early March 2015. We will carefully create each share so you can enjoy delicious, hearty winter boxes with an exciting array of flavors, textures, and colors to keep a smile on your face and inviting smells in your kitchen all winter long. Most of the varieties we are growing for the Winter CSA are attentively selected and bred by local seed producers from the PNW, so you can feel great supporting these excellent small family businesses and helping to maintain genetic diversity when you sign up!

We are able to bring you this exciting opportunity in part with the help of our friends at Grand Central Bakery. They will be hosting our pick-up locations in SE Portland at their Hawthorne store and also in North Portland at their Fremont store. They are able to offer us convenient pick-up areas located inside of the store protected from any severe and freezing winter weather. In addition to that, each member picking-up at one of our Grand Central Bakery locations will receive voucher for a free loaf of bread with each share box for the winter season. Delicious winter veggies and fresh locally baked bread, it doesn’t get much better than that. See more details below, and of course email us with any questions or to join.

Number of Deliveries: 7 (spanning 14 weeks)

Price: $610 (one share size)

The Bounty: beets, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celeriac, chicories, garlic, herbs, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, parsnips, *potatoes, pie pumpkins, daikon radishes, shallots & numerous varieties of winter squash (see a Sample Week chart below)

Quantity: approximately 35 pounds per delivery, intended to last for the 2 weeks between deliveries

Delivery Dates:

• Week of December 15 & 29, January 12 & 26, February 9 & 23 and March 9

Delivery locations:

• N: Grand Central Bakery @ 714 N Fremont
• SE: Grand Central Bakery @ 2230 SE Hawthorne
• SW: Food Front Co-op on SW Capitol Highway
• NW: The Farm 13615 NW Howell Park Rd
• Other possible locations to be announced
• Please email us at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com and we will sign you up for this exciting new option.

Checks can be mailed to: SIO, 20233 NW Sauvie Island Rd. Portland, OR 97231
or Call the office 503-621-6921 to pay by Credit Card

*Several of our potato varieties will be coming from transitional acreage (acreage that we are now growing on organically but had been farmed conventionally within the past 3 years).

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Lettuce: Apologies for misleading you last week, but our endless summer allowed for us to pull one more harvest of head lettuce for your shares this week. This is the last time for a true lettuce this season, and this time it’s for real.

• Sweet Peppers: The sweet peppers in your share this week are the Stocky Red and Stocky Gold Roasters. They are sweet and crisp with thinner walls making them great for roasting (as the name indicates).

Join SIO for our Winter Storage Share

After many years of requests, Sauvie Island Organics is now selling a limited number of Winter Storage Shares! We have conducted several years of variety trials, storage evaluations, taste tests, and now we are finally ready to invite you to share in the bounty of the farm from mid-December 2014 until early March 2015. We carefully create each share so you can enjoy delicious, hearty winter boxes with an exciting array of flavors, textures, and colors to keep a smile on your face and inviting smells in your kitchen all winter long. We will deliver every other week for 14 weeks, to several drop sites conveniently located around Portland.

Many of the storage crops will be harvested in the late fall, when cool, wet weather and crisp nights bring out their natural sweetness, making for some of the most excellent eats of the entire year! In addition to our favorite staple varieties we have been trialing rare, heirloom, and lesser known types of old favorites from around the world, so you can look forward to yellow French carrots, delectable German Butterball potatoes, savory Dutch Red shallots, nutty Japanese Kabocha winter squash, juicy heirloom Kohlrabi, crispy Daikon radishes, and more. We love these unusual varieties and we know you will too. Most of the varieties we are growing for the Winter CSA are attentively selected and bred by local seed producers from the PNW, so you can feel great supporting these excellent small family businesses and helping to maintain genetic diversity when you sign up! Details below:

Number of Deliveries: 7 (spanning 14 weeks)

Price: $610 (one share size)

The Bounty: beets, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celeriac, chicories, garlic, herbs, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, parsnips, *potatoes, pie pumpkins, daikon radishes, shallots & numerous varieties of winter squash

Quantity: approximately 35 pounds per delivery

• Week of December 15 & 29, January 12 & 26, February 9 & 23 and March 9

Delivery locations:

• N/NE: Grand Central Bakery 721 N Fremont
• SE: Grand Central Bakery at 2230 SE Hawthorne
• SW: Food Front Co-op on SW Capitol Highway
• NW: The Farm 13615 NW Howell Park Rd
• Other locations to be announced

Please email us at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com and we will sign you up for this exciting new option.
Checks can be mailed to: SIO, 20233 NW Sauvie Island Rd. Portland, OR 97231
or Call the office 503-621-6921 to pay by Credit Card

*Several of our potato varieties will be coming from transitional acreage (acreage that we are now growing on organically but had been farmed conventionally within the past 3 years).

Farm to City: A Benefit for the Sauvie Island Center

Join our friends at the Sauvie Island Center for their annual fall harvest tasting and benefit event. The event is this Thursday, October 9th on the Rooftop of Earth Advantage, 623 SW Oak Street, downtown Portland. Proceeds will benefit the Sauvie Island Center. Ticket price is $35 and includes entrance to the rooftop event and heavy appetizers. Local beer, wine and cider will be available for purchase. For more information and to purchase tickets visit http://www.sauvieislandcenter.org/events/farm-to-city/.

It’s Pepper Roasting Season! Buy Bulk Roasting Peppers from SIO

Similar to tomatoes this season, we’ve often been asked if we have any sweet peppers available in bulk for roasting and preserving for the off season. Well, finally this season the answer is yes! We will be offering 10lb boxes of our Stocky Red Roaster and Stocky Gold Roaster sweet peppers for pick-up at the farm only, and will be setting up orders for pick-up this coming weekend (October 10-12). The red and gold varieties we are offering for bulk boxes are a bit smaller and have thinner walls making them well suited for all your roasting and preserving needs.

• $25 for 10lb box of Roasting Peppers (choose all red, all gold, or a mix)

To pick-up your order this weekend at the farm please order by 12pm (noon) Thursday 10/9. All orders will be available for pick-up at the farm 12pm (Noon) Friday 10/10 through 5pm Sunday 10/12. To place an order email the farm at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com with your name, number of 10lb boxes you’d like. You will receive an email confirming your order and directions for how to pick-up from the farm. Please invite your non-CSA member friends, neighbors, and co-workers to take advantage of this opportunity and get in on some of the SIO bounty as well.

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Lettuce: Enjoy this last round of head lettuce in your share this week. Slice up some of your beautiful sweet peppers for a fall salad delight.

• Sweet Peppers: The sweets peppers in your share this week are Jolene’s Red and Gatherer’s Gold. They are big, juicy, and just as great for stuffing whole for an entree as they are raw as a snack. All the seed for the sweet peppers in your shares this season are from regional seed breeders and our friends at Wild Garden Seed.

It’s Pepper Roasting Season! Buy Bulk Roasting Peppers from SIO

Similar to tomatoes this season, we’ve often been asked if we have any sweet peppers available in bulk for roasting and preserving for the off season. Well, finally this season the answer is yes! We will be offering 10lb boxes of our Stocky Red Roaster and Stocky Gold Roaster sweet peppers for pick-up at the farm only, and will be setting up orders for pick-up this coming weekend (October 3-5) and the following weekend (October 10-12). The red and gold varieties we are offering for bulk boxes are a bit smaller and have thinner walls than the peppers in your share this week, making them well suited for all your roasting and preserving needs.

• $25 for 10lb box of Roasting Peppers (choose all red, all gold, or a mix)

To pick-up your order this weekend at the farm please order by 12pm (noon) Thursday 10/2. All orders will be available for pick-up at the farm 12pm (Noon) Friday 10/3 through 5pm Sunday 10/5. To place an order email the farm at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com with your name, number of 10lb boxes you’d like, and the weekend you want them available for pick-up at the farm (either this weekend 10/3-10/5, or next weekend 10/10-10/12). You will receive an email confirming your order and directions for how to pick-up from the farm. Please invite your non-CSA member friends, neighbors, and co-workers to take advantage of this opportunity and get in on some of the SIO bounty as well.

Don’t Let the Season End in December, Join SIO for our Winter Storage Share

After many years of requests, Sauvie Island Organics is now selling a limited number of Winter Storage Shares! We have conducted several years of variety trials, storage evaluations, taste tests, and now we are finally ready to invite you to share in the bounty of the farm from mid-December 2014 until early March 2015. We carefully create each share so you can enjoy delicious, hearty winter boxes with an exciting array of flavors, textures, and colors to keep a smile on your face and inviting smells in your kitchen all winter long. We will deliver every other week for 14 weeks, to several drop sites conveniently located around Portland.

Many of the storage crops will be harvested in the late fall, when cool, wet weather and crisp nights bring out their natural sweetness, making for some of the most excellent eats of the entire year! In addition to our favorite staple varieties we have been trialing rare, heirloom, and lesser known types of old favorites from around the world, so you can look forward to yellow French carrots, delectable German Butterball potatoes, savory Dutch Red shallots, nutty Japanese Kabocha winter squash, juicy heirloom Kohlrabi, crispy Daikon radishes, and more. We love these unusual varieties and we know you will too. Most of the varieties we are growing for the Winter CSA are attentively selected and bred by local seed producers from the PNW, so you can feel great supporting these excellent small family businesses and helping to maintain genetic diversity when you sign up! Details below:

Number of Deliveries: 7 (spanning 14 weeks)

Price: $610 (one share size)

The Bounty: beets, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celeriac, chicories, garlic, herbs, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, parsnips, *potatoes, pie pumpkins, daikon radishes, shallots & numerous varieties of winter squash

Quantity: approximately 35 pounds per delivery

• Week of December 15 & 29, January 12 & 26, February 9 & 23 and March 9

Delivery locations:

• N/NE: Grand Central Bakery 721 N Freemont
• SE: TBA
• SW: Food Front Co-op on SW Capitol Highway
• NW: The Farm 13615 NW Howell Park Rd
• Other locations to be announced

Please email us at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com and we will sign you up for this exciting new option.
Checks can be mailed to: SIO, 20233 NW Sauvie Island Rd. Portland, OR 97231
or Call the office 503-621-6921 to pay by Credit Card

*Several of our potato varieties will be coming from transitional acreage (acreage that we are now growing on organically but had been farmed conventionally within the past 3 years).

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Kohlrabi: Get ready for this fall flavor delight, it is a favorite among the farm crew once again this season. The Kossak and Gigante varieties of kohlrabi in your share this week is not only large in size, but also also big in delicious flavor. With crisp, juicy, mildly sweet flesh it is really great raw. See the recipes from Katherine for some great ideas.

• Sweet Peppers: The Stocky Red and Stocky Gold Roaster peppers in your share this week, as the name indicates, are perfect for roasting. They are also great sauteed, stir-fried, used in sauce, or sliced up fresh for a salad or dipping in hummus.