CSA Week 21: October 14 to October 16

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).