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FARM VISIT RESCHEDULED! - Notes from the Green Thumb Farm

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Due to the impending heavy rains our Fall Farm Tour - pumpkin picking has been postponed until Saturday, October 24th.

This gives all those who couldn't attend another chance. Reservations on our tractor pulled trailer riding tour are still needed. Please call (631) 726-1900. If you had reserved for a specific time on the 17th, that will still be your time unless you call to change. As a CSA member appreciation/thank you, there will be no charge for one pumpkin per person.

This is our 1st postponement of a farm tour in 14 years of CSA!

Lewis Waite Farm Newsletter (Reminder for Order Deadline/Thanksgiving Info.)

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Don't forget the next order deadline is October 8th at midnight, delivery on October 13th. Please remember to place your order on time, as late orders can be a disruption to all farms involved.

Please read the Entire Newsletter – it contains information on our new Late Order policy as well as Thanksgiving Turkey news!

Notes From Green Thumb Farm

Submitted by ktboogie on

October is here and our summer crops are coming to an end. Basil and the few tomatoes we had are gone. We will still have eggplant, peppers, summer squash and beans for several more weeks.

Our broccoli has begun as have several types of kales. We dug our sweet potatoes this week and will be bringing them in starting next week. They look very good. We hope to have lettuce all the way through to the final delivery week. Radichio and fennel are looking good for harvest in a couple of weeks. All of our Fall greens are doing well as cool weather does them well.

Baked pears with caramel sauce

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We got 3 lbs of pears this week! If you're wondering what to do with them, may I suggest the following recipe, adapted from Pam Anderson's USA Weekend column recipe.

1 tablespoon butter per pear

1/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar per pear

however many pears you want, halved and cored (and peeled, if you want). 1 pear per person.

Tomatillos

Submitted by ktboogie on

Tomatillos are a fruit related to tomatoes and have a husk covering them. They can be many colors when ripe including purple, red, green and yellow. If left in the husk, they last in the bottom of your fridge's crisper for up to a month! You can also freeze them whole or sliced. Additionally, you can use them in salsa which you can preserve through canning and/or freezing. Given that the share this week will include a number of possible salsa ingredients, here is a recipe from Epicurious.com for tomatillo salsa:

Tomatillo salsa

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