CSA Share Notes – Jan 8, 2026
We’ve got a great line-up today, but a word of warning: there’s a good bit of frost damage you’ll need to sort through. The radish greens were really beat up, and the arugula took quite a hit.
Usually these crops do well in light frosts, even down to the mid-20s, but we’ve had lots of very warm days in between the frosts, which reduces the plants’ resilience, majorly. If we had a week in the 40s and 50s leading up to a big freeze, they could take it in stride, but when it’s reaching the mid 80s beforehand, they’re literal defenses are down, at the cellular level, and damage is more likely.
So just take a few minutes to sort through your arugula for damaged leaves, and grab a knife and chop off the tops of your radishes and carry on with your bad self.
Your vegetable line-up:
Arugula — For all! peppery and delicious. Just dump it out into a sink of cold water, and sort through for the damaged leaves. We did a pre-sort but we couldn’t get it all!
Carrots — for the everyone this week! A beautiful rainbow of colors.
Cabbage — For everyone this week, and 2 for the large.
Turnips — Scarlett Queen turnips for the Regular shares. These are a gorgeous shade of rosy pink. They’re not beets! And Hakurei salad turnips for the Large and Mini shares. Fantastic raw.
Spinach — For the Large and Regular shares.
Broccoli — Plenty for the Large shares.
Radish — For the large shares. Some got French Breakfast, some got Red Rover.
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: Bagged arugula and spinach in the top center, then bottom from left to right: Rainbow carrots, savoy cabbage, sweet potatoes, and Scarlet Queen Turnips.
Large Share
Large Share top left to right:
Rainbow carrots, bagged arugula, spinach and broccoli, (2nd row) cabbages, radishes, and hakurei turnips, (bottom) sweet potatoes
Mini Share
Mini Share top left to right:
Rainbow carrots, arugula above cabbage, sweet potatoes, and haukrei turnips