CSA 2013 Vol 15
CSA is Winding Down
At Riverbend Gardens, we have much to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving weekend! We are so thankful for our CSA partners and subscribers, for our beautiful and fruitful urban farmland, for our employees, our friends and family! Our blessings are overflowing! After a brief rest to eat turkey and all the fixings, we will spend next week wrapping up the fields. This means that we disc down the crops and prepare the soil for spring. Operation Fruit Rescue will come and recover any leftover veggies that don’t fit into our jam-packed-full storage! So, though CSA wraps up next week, we will continue to sell produce throughout the winter at the Strathcona Market and at the Sherwood Park Market until Christmas. When we’re not busy having babies in the cold winter months (!), we keep busy ordering seeds, flowers and supplies for the greenhouses and gardens. All the equipment gets a tune-up and we even move the snow to facilitate maximum growth in the spring! We have exciting new adventures to pursue this winter including planning a new asparagus field, representing at various conferences, educating the Food Council on the important role of Riverbend Gardens to sustained local agriculture in Edmonton… and we will be doing our best to move that highway in our spare time! Most importantly though, winter is our time for rest and rejuvenation, and spending time with our kids, family and friends. Then, we fire up the greenhouse in March and the madness starts all over again!What’s in the Bag?
This is the family size pumpkin… as in, a family could fit inside!
Family Size:
- Pumpkin
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Leek
- Beets
Couples Size:
- Pumpkin
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Leek
CSA FINAL Customer Spotlight: Sid and Vicki
My husband, Sid, and I live in Highlands. We have been gobbling up the family size CSA this year. We believe that supporting local food and local business is important. Riverbend Gardens is dear to our hearts in so many ways – – family and friend connections. Fresh carrots, beets and potatoes are our farm favourites. And I made some very tasty onion conserve with a few huge onions last week. We also love the opportunity to pick Saskatoon berries. This summer, we spent a morning at the farm and picked over 12 litres of berries! What were we thinking!? Cleaned them and froze them until we need some summer inspiration in the cold of the winter. Early in the summer we also bought some potted plants to decorate our deck and tomato plants from Riverbend Gardens. With very little attention to the tomatoes we have enjoyed so many tomato salads and made plenty of salsa.
