CSA Share Notes – Dec 18, 2025
Your vegetable line-up:
Broccoli — Plenty for the Mini shares.
Cauliflower — Plenty for the large shares.
Radish — Watermelon radishes for the Regular shares. These are gorgeous inside!
Carrots — for the Large and regular shares this week. A beautiful rainbow of colors.
Cabbage — For everyone this week!
Kale/collard — a bagged mix for all
Turnips — Scarlett Squeen turnips for the Large shares and Hakurei for the Regular and Mini shares.
Items from other neighboring farms:
Tony Philips — Sweet Potatoes — Our friend and neighbor Tony Philips grows the regions best sweet potatoes, just a couple of miles from Red Moon Farm. These are fantastic, sweet, with a long storage life. Enjoy them on the regular. You’ll get lots more throughout the fall!
A few notes about Tony’s Practices: He is not aiming to be organic, so some years the above-ground parts of the plants have non-organic products used on them, however, the roots never have anything applied to them.
Usual standard practice in commercial sweet potato production is to use sprout-inhibitors on the crop post-harvest, and these chemical compounds are known to be extremely harmful to the thyroid and other hormonal systems in the human body.** (It’s why, when we can’t get them from a local grower and have to rely on a grocery store, our family chooses to only buy organic potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and garlic.) Well, Lucky us: Tony Philips never, ever uses sprout-inhibitors. His potatoes simply get a clean water bath to rinse the ETX sand off of them, so we eat them with confidence, and we believe you can, too.
Veggie Storage tips:
Everything wants to be washed well before cooking, but keep the dirt on till then, to prevent faster spoilage.
Sweet potatoes like to be out at room temperature in a dry spot.
All leafy greens, the radishes, turnips, broccoli, etc all want to be in your fridge. Seal them up in a bag or container to retain moisture for longest storage life.
We’d love to hear stories and recipes of your culinary adventures this week. Tag us on Instagram or Facebook, showing us how you’ve used your CSA share.
– Your farmers, Jess & Justin
Regular Share
Regular Share top left to right:
Hakurei turnips, watermelon radishes, bagged kale/collard mix, rainbow carrots, (2nd row) cabbage and sweet potatoes
Large Share
Large Share top left to right:
Scarlet Queen turnips, cauliflower, bagged kale/collard, rainbow carrots, 2 cabbages in the center, and sweet potatoes across the bottom
Mini Share
Mini Share top left to right:
Hakurei turnips, broccoli, bagged kale/collard, cabbage and sweet potatoes