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Our final share for this winter: leeks, fava greens, yellow and orange carrots, root parsley, beets with greens and salsify. We also had collard and kale raab on the farm stand, and were giving out some pretty large cardoons to anyone who wanted one, I even left a few behind with the after hours shares… Continue reading Winter Share #6

The sixth and final winter share will be this Thursday and here’s my best guess at what we’ll have in the share: Yellow and orange carrots, root parsley, salsify, beets, leeks and fava greens. On the farm stand we should have more collard and kale raab and there’s a small chance if there’s enough that… Continue reading Predictions for Final Winter Share

Let your CSA curious friends know and come say hi this Sunday, March 15 between 11am and 2pm at the Redd, 831 SE Salmon St. here in Portland. The Pacific NW CSA Coalition is once again hosting this open house where most of the CSA farms serving the Portland area will have displays and will… Continue reading We’ll be at Share Fair this weekend!

Leeks, carrots, scorzonera, mache, chard, and parsnip. Mache was kind of a surprise today, and a bit of a treasure hunt. I wasn’t expecting to have enough, and there was just enough for the shares picking through the poor germination and weedy beds. It’s definitely a fun little salad treat that prefers really cold weather… Continue reading Winter Share #5

Carrots, leeks, parsnips, scorzonera and kale. I’m really not certain on the kale; the greens have been tricky to predict this winter. I suspect we’ll have a number of items on the farm stand which we won’t have quite enough to put in the shares, but it’s possible that some of these might make it… Continue reading Prediction for Fifth Winter Share 

Collards, root parsley, radicchio, yellow carrots, winter beets and salsify. As usual there was a choice of radicchio types and shown are Treviso and Belgian endive (not technically a radicchio, but same species). This was the last week that we’ll have enough radicchio for it to go into the shares but there will likely be… Continue reading Winter Share #4

Collards, radicchio, carrots, root parsley and beets. Tricky to say what might be on the farm stand but possibly extra radicchio, escarole, and winter radishes. I know I’ve mentioned this before but it’s always funny trying to figure out what to give out and what will hold for the last two harvests in March. Mostly… Continue reading Predictions for Fourth Winter Share

Half way through the season and todays share had parsnip, scorzonera, carrots, radicchio and leeks. There were also mustard greens, a bit of frisée and escarole and winter radishes on the farm stand for anyone who wanted to supplement the slightly stripped down, root heavy share this week. Scorzonera is one of the more unusual… Continue reading Winter Share #3

Last week I got up into the mountains for a little break from the farm and got luck with some cold temps and decent snow. This week the warm weather is keeping me guessing and here’s what I think we’ll have in the shares on Thursday: Carrots, parsnips, leeks, radicchio and scorzonera. Depending on how… Continue reading Predictions for Third Winter Share

Red mustard, beets, turnips, root parsley, leeks, mixed radicchio. When I showed up at the farm this morning everything was frozen for the first time this year! Not a super heavy freeze but it did slow us down a tad. In the end the mustard bounced back nicely, as did all the greens on the… Continue reading Winter Share #2

My best guess for the upcoming harvest on this Thursday is: beets, turnips, mustard greens, leeks, root parsley and radicchio. We’ll probably have some winter radishes on the farm stand if you didn’t get enough of those in the first harvest. I think there might still be some frisee out there too, but we’ll have… Continue reading Predictions for Second Winter Share

Collard greens, leeks, yellow carrots, winter radish and radicchios. With this unusually warm fall and now winter the radicchio is ahead of schedule and not holding in the field as well as I’d like – so we’re harvesting it and hoping you’ll have space for it in your refrigerators (assuming you don’t eat it all… Continue reading Winter Share #1

We’ve had a nice little winter break for the past few weeks and left the farm to rest while we’ve been enjoying those final fall harvests in our holiday meals. That beautiful pink radicchio was part of my New Years Eve salad, as well as topping for my pizza last night. With a little luck… Continue reading Happy New Year! And first winter share predictions

Just three days before the shortest day of the year and we wrapped up harvest with an extremely soggy one! As predicted, more or less the same share as last week’s A schedule share, with frisée instead of escarole. Instead of choice of radicchio this week everyone got a head of the light green Palla… Continue reading Last Fall Share, Final 2025 Harvest

Mustard, radicchio, rutabaga, carrots, kale, and escarole. A wonderfully warm, dry day made harvest easier yesterday and the greens are abundant due to the weather. The red mustard is huge and will make a big pot of greens. Kale leaves are smaller and there’s a mix of lacinato rainbow and winter red varieties. Radicchio is… Continue reading Fall Share 6A

Kale, red mustard, parsnips, rutabaga, frisée or escarole and radicchio. In today’s B week share we had escarole instead of the frisée and we’ll try to reverse that for the final fall A and B week shares.  Looking at the radicchio field right now I expect we’ll have two heads of radicchio in the shares,… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #6

Collards, radicchio, black radish, Napoli carrots, Shiraz beets, frisée, winter leeks. Frisée was planted late but it finally looked beautiful yesterday and I’m hoping the rest of it will continue to mature nicely in the field for our next harvest in two weeks. The radishes came in a variety of sizes and I randomly picked… Continue reading Fall Share 5A

Collards, radicchio, carrots, beets, winter radishes, and winter leeks. We finished up with the super long, light green fall leeks last week and are now getting into our shorter, darker Blue Soliaze leeks. We’re also into our winter carrots now. Radicchio will continue to be a mix of types. I think we still have some… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #5

A smaller number of items in the share this week, but most of them are bulky and/or heavy. That combined with the wet weather means we’re having an unusually high incidence of bag blowouts so be careful when picking up your share bag. In the bags are kale, rutabaga, parsnip, radicchio, green mustard and leeks.… Continue reading Fall Share 4A

We’ve passed the half way mark for fall, and daylight savings. The first prediction is easy to make, it’ll be dark at pick up so we’ll have lights on. My guesses on what we’ll have in the share are: kale, mustard, radicchio, leeks, parsnips, rutabaga. Kohlrabi was in the plan but I don’t think we’ll… Continue reading Predictions for Fall Share #4