Bushels and bushels of pumpkin fun was had! Check out all the photos on Facebook.

Congrats to the carving winners!

Will, our kid’s contest winner, won a $50 gift certificate to BQ Sports!

“Most Brooklyn” Winner Juliana, Best “Pollock-like Abstraction” Winner Chad and “Best-in-Show” winner Myriam. They each received giftbaskets from Sprout Skincare and Vesica & Bison Grass Vodka. Best-in-show winner Myriam shows off her awesome chef’s knife donated by our favorite kitchen store, Brooklyn Kitchen.

Thanks also to the below group of fantastic donors and sponsors – the event could not have been a success without you!
Bison Grass Vodka
Brooklyn Kitchen
BQ Sports
Just Food
Keg ‘n Lantern
Lokal
R Cano Events
Sprout Skincare
Teddys
Vesica Vodka
The Warsaw

Pumpkins were generously donated by R Cano Events.

You're Invited to Carve for Farms!

Now that we’ve all made it through a harsh winter, a rainy spring and what has started off as a warm and humid summer, your endurance will be greatly rewarded. Our first Wednesday pick up (for A week and full shares) is on June 8th, less than a week away! And of course that means that the first Saturday pick up follows on June 11th.

Be sure to click on the Times and Locations (also found above) to see all pick up dates for the 2011 season. You will also be getting your weekly GWCSA newsletter email a day or two before your pick up date with reminders about your work shift and updates and info about happenings on the farm and the delicious variety of food you can expect to pick up.

As always, please feel free to contact us by email (williamsburgcsa@gmail.com), or talk to us in person at any Saturday or Wednesday distribution.

Thank you for your interest and we apologize if you do not get an opportunity to become a CSA member this season. Be sure to submit your name on the interested 2012 email list sometime next Fall, so you can be the first to hear about next year’s sign ups.

If you have any questions about how the GWCSA works, please email us at williamsburgcsa@gmail.com

2 lb Sweet potatoes
2 red tomatoes (NOT 2 lb, just two tomatoes)
1 bu braising greens
1 spaghetti squash
1 bu parsley
1 bu collard greens (approx 6 leaves if not bunched)
.5 lb Green beans
1 bag mesclun

Fruit share: 2 asian pears, 1 bosc pear (if included at share site), 7 empire apples, 2 golden delicious apples.

Flower share: 1 pot organically grown hardy fall chrysanthemum! It will keep blooming hopefully almost till Thanksgiving, if you keep it well watered (probably needs to be watered almost every day).

We also have some amazing beds of dill and cilantro, so those will keep coming into the fall. We’ve been digging the many beds of potatoes, so you’ll be getting potatoes this week and many weeks into the future.

Fortunately we have a 2-row potato digger, which we did a lot of mechanical work on this past summer, so it is going pretty quickly — there are about 20 beds of potatoes! We will also start digging sweet potatoes at the end of the week — by hand. This goes more slowly. We’re guessing this will be one of our best sweet potato years ever. Sweet potatoes love the heat, and we had plenty of that!”

Share items for Oct 12 and 14:

2 lb satina and red gold (varieties) potatoes
4 red tomatoes (about 2 lb)
1 bu arugula
1 bu sweet salad turnips
1 head lettuce
5 Baby bok choi heads
.5 lb Green beans
1 bu dill

Fruit share
1 lb plums, 1 lb sekel pears (mini-pears), 3 bosc pears, 4 Jonagold apples. This is the last week for plums and sekel pears!

Egg Share
1/2 Dozen Eggs

Flower Share
Zinnias, larkspur, sunflowers, celosia, cosmos, etc.

REMINDER: Flower shares end on Oct 22 – this is the next-to-last week for flowers!

peppers

1 bu Collard greens

1 bag mesclun

1 head lettuce

Baby bok choi

Broccoli Rabe

Green beans

1 bu parsley OR cilantro

Fruit share: 2 lb plums, 2 lb sekel pears (mini-pears), apples

Flower share: zinnias, larkspur, sunflowers, celosia, cosmos, etc.

1 bu French Breakfast Radishes

.5 lb string beans

1 bag mesclun

1 head lettuce

1 bu Arugula

1 bu braising greens

1 bu sweet salad turnips OR radishes

1 bu parsley

Fruit share: 2 lb plums, 5 apples

Flower share: zinnias, larkspur, sunflowers, celosia, cosmos, etc.

EASIEST, QUICKEST, YUMMIEST TOMATO SOUP RECIPE EVER

Serves 2

Ingredients:
About 4 medium-large tomatoes (if you’re not sure, err on the side of two many rather than too few)
1 medium onion
4-6 cloves garlic (or more to taste)
Olive oil
Salt
Pepper

Plus (these are optional add-ins):
Peppers
Celery
Carrots
Basil
Parsley
Chicken or Vegetable stock
Milk
Creme Fraiche
Sour Cream

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Pour about 2-4 tablespoons of olive oil into a 9 x 12 casserole dish so that the bottom is completely covered. Slice onions and add to casserole dish. Add whole garlic cloves to casserole dish. Slice tomatoes into wedges and add to casserole dish. Then I recommend adding a couple of sliced peppers if you have them on hand, or a couple stalks of chopped celery, or a couple of sliced carrots, or all of the above! Add salt and pepper, then stir it all up with a wooden spoon to coat with olive oil and roast in oven for 45-50 minutes.

Then, pour everything into a blender and blend until smooth. At this point you may want to add your chopped basil or parsley, or some milk. A lot of tomato soup recipes call for chicken or vegetable stock, and if you have some on hand, go for it, but I usually do without. And if you’ve added some peppers/celery/carrots I feel like it doesn’t need the extra flavor that the stock will give it (especially if it’s store-bought stock, which is often so strongly flavored that it will overpower everything else).

Finally, after portioning to bowls, add a dollop of creme fraiche or sour cream.

Serve with a salad or, if it’s chilly out, grilled cheese!

1 bu French Breakfast Radishes

.5 lb string beans

2 stalks Edamame (soybeans for steaming and eating fresh)

.5 lb mesclun OR 1 head lettuce

1 bu Arugula

1 bu braising greens

1 bulb garlic

1 lb beets

1 bu parsley, cilantro, OR sage

1 pint plum tomatoes

Fruit share Sat: 2 lb plums, 2 lb sekel pears, apples

Flower share: zinnias, larkspur, sunflowers, celosia, etc.