Colchester Farm CSA selling winter produce, stew hens, eggs

Here’s another opportunity to order produce to pick up at the farm either Friday (after 10 am) or Saturday (after 3pm). Please, e-mail [email protected] by Wednesday, no later than 9am, with your order. Please see below for details of how it all works.

Here’s the selection this week, and thanks again for your support of Colchester Farm CSA:

(Many of the prices are per pound, but you don’t have to order a whole pound. It can be quarter, half, etc. Or for radishes or cabbage, for example, you could order per radish or head of cabbage and I’ll weigh it and price it accordingly.)

Note: We don’t have arugula, mesclun, or spinach available this week, but we hope to have it again in the future.

Cabbage – green – $ 0.75 / lb (Please order by number of heads)
Cabbage – red or savoy – $ 1.00 / lb (Please order by number of heads)
Carrots, orange or rainbow – $2.00 / pound
Collards – $2 / bunch
Garlic – $5 / lb
Kale – Winterbor, Red Russian, or Lacinato ($2.50 / bunch)
Kohlrabi, light green – 3 for $2.00 or $0.75 each
Lettuce Mix – $10 / lb
Onions, red or yellow – $2 / lb
Parsnips – $2.50 / lb
Popcorn – $2 per bunch of three ears
Potatoes – $2 / lb – red pontiac (red-skinned, white inside) or satina (yellow)
Potatoes, fingerling – $2.50 / lb – banana (yellow-fleshed) or French fingerling (red-skinned, white-fleshed) or a mix of banan, French, and Peruvian purple
Radish, Watermelon – $0.50 each
Radish, Daikon – $1 / lb
Rutabaga – $1.50 each
Sweet Potatoes, beauregard (traditional orange-fleshed) -we only have small-sized sweet potatoes at this point $1.25 / lb
Sweet Potatoes, white yam (white-fleshed) $1.25/lb
Turnips – $1 / lb. (purple top turnips, gold ball or hakurei — sorry, no greens)
Eggs for $5.00 per dozen
Our new flock of laying hens are just now starting to lay, giving us some eggs to sell. Our hens are pasture-raised and fed an organic diet.

Stewing Hens for Sale
We also have frozen stewing hens available for $3.00 per pound. They range in weight from 2 to over 4 pounds. They are our two-year-old hens that were raised on pasture and received organic feed. They are very flavorful and make great soup stock. Please email me with how many you’d like to order and an estimate of size which I’ll try to accommodate. (See below for basic cooking instructions.)

Details of how this all works:
You may pick up your order at the farm on Friday after 10 am or Saturday after 3pm. (Please specify which day you’d like to pick up your produce when you order.) If we cannot fill any part of your order (either because quantities ran out or could not be harvested due to weather conditions), we’ll e-mail you by the end of the day on Thursday. If we cannot fill your entire order, you have two options: (1) pick-up your order anyway (the portion we managed to fill) or (2) e-mail us or call us to cancel your order by 9am Friday morning.

When you arrive at the farm your order will be packed in a paper bag on a table in our red work shed. Your name will be on your bag; an invoice will be inside your bag. Please leave payment (cash or check) in the assigned container.