CSA Share Notes Apr 30, 2026
Welcome to another CSA harvest! The weather this week made your harvest really tricky. We don’t mind working in the rain, but we can’t be out in the lightening, so we had quite a number of interruptions and delays, really extending our Tuesday/Wednesday. The crew is all extra exhausted, so we will be trying to catch up on some rest where we can. We have such a great crew this year that works well together and stays positive under challenging conditions, so we’re looking forward to all that is to come. We hope you feel the effort and care that goes into your boxes and bouquets each week.
It’s SALAD SEASON, y’all! This is the time of year when you need to begin strategizing how you’re going to use up all the abundance.
Our CSA Guidebook (check it out, friends!) is an excellent tool with all the tips so you are not feeling like you’re wasting your farm share. Here’s a tip easy to implement in Spring: a nightly side-salad with every dinner. Also, plan to give some items away each week if you’re struggling to get through it! (bonus: this introduces more people to fresh, local eating!)
Salad greens are fleeting in our climate - they hate heat- so we will only have them for about a month, and for that month they’ll be super abundant! Email or message us your favorite salad ideas, and we’ll compile a list to share with the group for next week.
Here’s this week’s vegetable line-up:
Head Lettuce — 1 butter lettuce for everyone, 1 red romaine for the Large and Regular, and 1 additional green romaine for the Large (that’s 3, 2, 1)name the varieties
Snow Peas — Large shares and regular shares got this crop. They’re so sweet and crunchy. These never make it all the way home to my fridge, my kids eat them all! Enjoy.
Bunched Greens — Large shares receive lacinato kale, Regular shares received winterbor (curly) kale, and Mini shares received Red Russian kale. All of these would be perfect in a sausage, potato, white bean soup this week when the cold front blows in this weekend, or in a quiche/frittata, or a massaged kale salad, which is especially amazing paired with fresh yellow mango. I promise it’s good.
Chard — large shares received a pretty bunch of rainbow chard, perfect to use as you would spinach. It’s wonderful sauteed, also great roasted crispy, and it pairs well with a beef roast.
Arugula — For everyone. This is a flavorful salad green, and is excellent paired with a bit of dried fruit, toasted pecans, red onion, and parmesan. Of course you can find abundant alternative options on the web, but that’s our fave!
Asian Spring Mix — This crop is colorful and oh, so flavorful. It’s great as a salad, but I prefer it sauteed, or even roasted. It’s great as a spicy garnish on tacos, too.
Radish — Large shares 2 daikon, Mini shares got Red Rover, and for the Regular shares, some of you received Red Rover, some got Easter Egg. These are excellent as a topping for posole, or tortilla soup and we’re about to get some great soup weather! Or do my favorite way: slice atop a well-buttered piece of sourdough, or even avocado toast, and sprinkle with some fancy salt. Root crops stay the most crisp and nutritious if you remove the tops, otherwise the greens will draw moisture and nutrients away from the roots and you’ll soon have soft, rubbery roots. So chop those babies off and eat ’em up (radish greens are edible!)
Napa Cabbage — Large and regular shares received this great asian cabbage. It’s fantastic in kimchee (with your daikon), or in a slaw (with your kohlrabi!) or even a stir fry
Kohlrabi — This crop has quickly become a customer fave. It’s kind of like eating broccoli stems. Peel the bulb and chop or slice. It’s fantastic raw, but also wonderful roasted, or even boiled and mashed.
White onions — For everyone. Sweet and delicious.
Items from other neighboring farms:
Veggie Storage tips:
Everything wants to be washed well before cooking, but keep the dirt on till then, to prevent faster spoilage.
All leafy greens and roots want to be in your fridge. Seal them up in a bag or container to retain moisture for longest storage life. The onion can be cut to fit into a bag and get sealed up in your fridge.
If you haven’t discovered the Peak Fresh bags, yet, they’re a great reusable bag that helps retain the nutrients in the veggies. And we’re not an affiliate or anything, they’re just really good!
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:
Curly kale, 2 head lettuces, radishes, Asian Spring Mix, Napa cabbage, Snow Peas, onions, kohlrabi, and arugula.
Large Share
Large Share top left to right:
Lacinato kale, a red and a green romaine, a butter lettuce atop the snow peas, and swiss chard (2nd row) Napa cabbage, onions, Daikon radishes, 2 kohlrabi, and a bag of arugula and a bag of Asian Spring Mix)
Flower Share
Bouquet share:
The first bouquets of the year include the last of the beautiful foxgloves and larkspur, buplurum for greenery, statice, queen anne’s lace, veronica, yarrow, dianthus. The first Nigella and Cosmos are ready this week, too. The blooms will change a lot over the next few weeks as the first crops fade and new crops come ready. We hope you love each week!
Mini Share
Mini Share top left to right:
Red Russian kale, butter lettuce, radishes, Asian Spring Mix, kohlrabi, onion, and arugula.