Garlic Fest Hoboken on Sunday
On Sunday we will be back to Hoboken for the 5th Annual Garlic Festival. We have quite a few nice varieties that will be available for tasting as well as some great dips (Tomato-Garlic, Horseradish-Garlic and hopefully some Roasted Pepper-Garlic). We also will be bringing some garlic vinegar and garlic jelly from farmers who come to our annual Lafayette event. It was great to see some CSA members at the Lafayette Garlic Gathering over the weekend. We actually had two stinkin’ days of fun!
Franklin Greenhouse Report: Today’s delivery of stevia was harvested from the Franklin greenhouse. With the days getting shorter, the plants were getting ready to flower (that is why it is more stretched than in the previous delivery). Drying the stevia leaves will give you a nice quantity of this natural sweetener to use anytime you want a natural sweetener instead of using sugar. Here are some tips from care2:
- “Harvest all of the leaves from the plant and dry them. On a moderately warm fall day, your stevia crop can be quick dried in the full sun in about 12 hours. Just place the plants on a piece of newspaper in an area with good air circulation. A home dehydrator can also be used, although sun drying is the preferred method. I’ve even used the heat of my attic during the summer to speed up the job.
You can crush the dried leaves by hand using a mortar and pestle or using a coffee grinder. You can use the stevia in this powdered form, adjusting the amount you use to achieve the desired degree of sweetness. Keep in mind that stevia is 30 times more sweet than sugar and a general rule of thumb is 1 generous tablespoon is roughly equivalent to one cup of sugar in terms of the level of sweetness.” Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/how-to-use-fresh-stevia.html#ixzz28guPdeOq
We are winding down operations in this greenhouse, and the ginger is ready to harvest and we should be delivering it next week. We probably will have some samples to taste at the Garlic Fest in Hoboken on Sunday. Combined with garlic, ginger makes the start of a classic oriental stir-fry. You can even use the fresh ginger to make your own ginger ale and use stevia instead of sugar for all-natural ale!
From the Fields: It is still wet and muddy so all field work is being delayed. The crew was pretty much in the greenhouse all week cleaning up the garlic for both deliveries and the festivals. We hope to have drier weather by the end of the week so that we may prep the field for the trip to the farm on the 20th. The cover crop of rye looks like a nice blanket of green over the beds.
Fruit Report – The apple variety in your delivery this week is Yellow Delicious. As we have noted in the past, fruit this year is scarce due to a late freeze in the spring. We have seen that some varieties of apples are much larger this year than they have been in the past. The buds that were left on the trees affected by the freeze are producing larger fruit. On the opposite end, some varieties of apples are smaller in size due to the drought.
Weather Report: It was warm during the week, but the cooler temperatures are coming and there is a chance of frost during the week as the temperatures start dropping into the mid-to-low 30’s. Whether or not we have a frost or a freeze depends on the cloud cover that night.
Animal report: Aside from some chipmunks raiding the apples stored in the greenhouse we haven’t seen any groundhogs or rabbits this week. The squirrels are busy burying nuts and they love to jump over the fence as obviously inside the fence is better for their storage than outside. They go to town burying both hickory and black walnuts. Guess they follow “the grass is greener on the other side” philosophy. We are starting to see more deer tracks throughout the farm.
Trip to the Farm – October 20th
Help Plant Garlic
• All CSA members are invited to help out planting garlic for the final trip to the farm this year
• Start Time: 11:00 am on October 20th
• Planting Garlic is a great family activity & very easy!!
• We’ll starting popping the garlic then proceed to the field to plant followed by mulching
• We’ll break for a late lunch (around 2:30 pm) with Farmer Sue’s famous campfire recipes
• Please RSVP so that we may plan lunch & refreshments
Upcoming Events 
Annual Garlic Fest – Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street
October 14th 1-5 pm
· Garlic Tasting
· Vote for your favorite Garlic!
· Garlic & Farm Fresh Produce for Sale
Week of October 9th - Pick of the Week: click on the links below or to the right to bring you to the delivery specific to your pick-up location. Deliveries will be of similar variety & poundage, but may contain different items at anytime during the season. Occasionally, some crops are ready to harvest but not enough to deliver to all our drop-off locations. What we do is start to filter them in each week to a different drop-off until there is enough to delivery to everyone.
- Recipe Links
- Beth Haverim Shir Shalom Delivery
- Hoboken Midtown Delivery
- Hoboken West Delivery
- Jersey City Hamilton Park Delivery
- United Synagogue of Hoboken – Delivery location change, refer to your newsletter for info
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