Your share of the harvest  Your next farm share will be ready this Saturday, December 3. We’ll be around the farmstand from 10 to 5. Remember, we are a little harder to reach this time of year so it’s important that you pick up on Saturday. The two remaining Saturday pick-up dates for Fall CSA are: Dec 3 & 17. Email Cat if you have any questions. 

Forgotten shares  If you have forgotten a share, just let us know when you come next time and we’ll give you extra of everything except the greens.

Your farm share this week

A view from the farm

We’ll have three kinds of beans available for sale this Saturday:
black turtle, King of the Early, and pinto.

Wheat to Bread  We have a new video called Wheat to Bread. It’s on our very own YouTube channel. We have started collecting favorites and making our own videos so that we can share our message promoting sustainable and organic agriculture to a wider audience. You’ll see a few other videos we made as well. There are several more in the works. Our friend Rori Kelleher is our videographer. Have a look and tell us what you think!

Field notes  The fields are all put to bed now and we have begun greenhouse repairs and upgrades. We are still working on threshing, winnowing, and sorting the beans and have a few varieties ready for sale now. We’ll make them available to our CSA members for the CSA pickup day scheduled for this Saturday, December 3. They’ll be available to everyone during our second and final Farmstand Saturday on December 17 and at area winter farmers markets.

Winter Markets  Look for us at the Norwich  and Lebanon winter farmer’s markets on the following dates: Dec. 17, Jan. 14, and Feb. 11.

Feed the Movement  We are so pleased to see the national conversation changing a bit due to the actions of the Occupy Movement. We have connected with other Northeast farmers through an organization called Feed the Movement, which like the Occupy Movement is a leaderless effort with horizontal governance, we are all in charge and decisions are made by consensus. The goal is twofold: to bring light to the problems Big Ag has caused our food system and to promote sustainable alternatives, and to send New England produced food to the Occupy kitchens in NYC and Boston.

Cedar Circle Farm will donate some food, make some new videos promoting the message of sustainable food systems, and help to raise awareness of the efforts of Feed the Movement. A PayPal account is being used to raise money to pay farmers for the food they produced and to pay for some basic organizational and distribution needs. Two New England distributors, Black River Produce and Deep Root Cooperative, have offered a reduced rate on shipping OWS food donations and the OWS kitchens are paying those fees. You can watch the video put out by Feed the Movement. Their website can help you to learn more and to donate.

Recipe: Potato-Beet Galette  I found this recipe at homegrown.org, a really cool website started by the folks who founded Farm Aid. Homegrown.org is “a gathering place for folks who celebrate the ‘culture’ in agriculture and share skills like growing, cooking, and food preservation.’ I often use this as my go-to source for all things homegrown, and so can you!