Last Winter Share Pickup

While it hasn’t felt like we’ve reached deep winter yet, we are deep into winter activities. We’ve finally cracked open the seed catalogs and begun to dream of the season to come. The weeks are filled with crop planning meetings, marketing plans, budgets and lots and lots of spreadsheets. Getting the winter share ready for you is a welcome retreat back into the veggies of the present. We kept the hoses drained so we could clean those roots even in the cold and harvested kale when the sun was out. We picked the last of the lettuce from the high tunnel and are jarred the last of the kimchi (well-timed, if I do say so myself). The winter season is a strange mix of looking forward while still caring for the bounty of the past. We hope you’ve enjoyed your winter share. We’ll be spending February visiting friends a family, getting some maintenance around the farm and finalizing our plans for the coming season. We very much hope you’ll join us. Please check out our new share options for 2020.

http://rootstoriverfarm.com/new-page

Thanks for being with us. And happy 2020 to you all.

Scenes from the farm: seeding carrots for the spring, and winter farm views.

In the Share:

1 bag salad

1 bunch kale

1 head cabbage or napa cabbage

5 onions

1 garlic

1 tomato butter

1 jar kimchi

8 pounds roots: beets, carrots, potatoes, rutabaga, kohlrabi, purple top turnips, hakurei turnips, purple daikon, watermelon radish

Ginger, Carrot, & Daikon Radish Salad

https://food52.com/recipes/35511-ginger-carrot-daikon-radish-salad

by: EARLY MORNING FARM

Ingredients 

  • 1 medium size daikon radish

  • 2 carrots

  • 1 tablespoon canola oil

  • 2 tablespoons rice vinegar

  • 1/2 teaspoon sriracha

  • 1 clove garlic

  • 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger

  • toasted sesame oil

Prep the vegetables. Use a julienne peeler or box grater to shred the daikon and carrots into 4 cups total. (you may have some daikon leftover) Mix the ginger, garlic, and grated vegetables in a medium size mixing bowl. Whisk together oil, vinegar, and chili sauce then toss salad together. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds.

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