We have finally gotten around to contemplating how we want to operate the CSA this Fall/Winter (or if we want to do it at all) . For those of you who participated last year you know we organized the CSA differently: members paid upfront any amount they wanted, we applied a discount, then members came to the winter farmer's Markets and "bought" whatever amount they wanted from what we had available. We added up what each member "bought" each week and subtracted that from their balance. Members could add to their balance at any time, and get the same 10% additional credit.
Prior to that, our Fall/Winter CSA was organized more like our regular season CSA. Each week members picked 7 items from what was available each week.
Whether you participated in our previous Fall/Winter CSAs or not, we would love your feedback on which model you prefer. Please feel free to "comment" to this blog post, send us an email (maglenn_1999@yahoo.com) or just talk with us at market.
Right now it looks like the Corning Winter Market will run the first and third Saturdays of each month (same as previous years). We plan to also be at the Ithaca Farmers' Market most Saturdays.

Speaking of this winter: we just planted most of the our winter greens. We hope that we will do a better job this year of having salad greens all winter. We plan to have three hoophouses full of winter greens including: lettuce mix, spinach, spicy mix, tokyo bekana (baby chinese cabbage), arugula, kale and chard. We'll see how it goes. We are still learning how to grow food for this difficult time of year.

This week's expected vegetables
Choose 8 items (large share 10 items):
radicchio
winter squash
 beets
 radishes
pac choi
potatoes
eggplant
cherry tomatoes
onions
tomatoes
basil
kale 
chard (maybe)
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
husk cherries
tomatillos
lettuce
lettuce mix
peppers
flour
dry black beans