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Week Twelve of the 2021 CSA Season has arrived, ladies and gents! And with it, the cool weather has tagged along. We hope you’re enjoying this respite from the heat as much as we are out here on the farm, though we’re still hoping for a few more hot, sunny days to play in the water and enjoy the freedoms summer brings. Special Announcements: First of the month payments are coming up next week. If you’re set up for automatic payments and any of your information has changed, please get ahold of us here at the farm so we can Read more

Welcome to this year’s CSA season! We’re so happy to have you with us this year, and we can’t tell you how excited we are to tag along on this food journey with you! It’s been an incredibly wet spring, but the sun is finally shining, the days are warming up, and we have lots of delicious veggies to share with you this season! How Does This Work? There are two different seasons and five share types to Winter Green Farm’s CSA. We’re beginning the Standard Season, which runs from this week until mid-October. When the Standard Season ends, the Read more

We hope you didn’t have any troubles making your way here to our new blog! This is our first post, which will be a quick trial post to make sure everything is up and running for our first week of CSA deliveries. We are really excited for the first CSA harvest tomorrow! We have had such a beautiful Spring, and your vegetables are looking amazing. After two seasons of cold, wet weather early on, we don’t take this sunshine for granted. We feel full of optimism that this is going to be a great season, and we are so thankful Read more

Savoy Cabbage Collards Turnips Lettuce Celeriac Chard Red curry squash Leeks Yellow onions Some sites only: Cauliflower Special Announcements: *The farm’s Harvest Celebration is coming up! It will be held Saturday, October 19th From Noon to 4pm.  This is the time to come out to the farm, jump on the hay wagon and get your pumpkins! We will also start the day with a potluck lunch, and have activities for the kids like face painting, cider pressing, and more. We hope to see many of you there, rain or shine! *We also want to let you know that we still Read more

Eggplant Carrots Green beans Cucumbers Zucchini Strawberries Cauliflower Some sites only: Tomatoes Lettuce Special Announcements: These last two seasons we have decided not to grow garlic here at the farm. We had some crop failures with garlic in the past, due to endlessly soggy wet springs, and decided that we needed to focus on the crops that grow well in our location and soil. We do know an excellent garlic grower though, and are happy to connect you with Keith Walton, if you are interested in purchasing delicious garlic from a farmer we know and trust. The variety of garlic Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: The blueberries are sizing up and they should be ready for harvesting very soon…I’ll talk with Blondies’ Berries on Friday morning to see when they will be available for us to include in your shares…..she will also have some bulk berries available in early August and though out the month. If you would like to order flats of blueberries, call/email the farm office to get on the list! WHAT’S IN YOUR SHARE THIS WEEK: Carrots Swiss Chard or Kale Lettuce Spinach Green Onions Strawberries SOME SITES ONLY Cabbage Zucchini RECIPES: Savory Feta Baklava Lentil & Swiss Chard Soup Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: FILL YOUR PANTRY EVENT! Sunday, November 19th, from 11am to 5pm at the Lane Events Center. If you are a member living in the Eugene/Springfield area, and want to stock up on storage goodies for the winter, then be sure to check out the online ordering for the Fill Your Pantry event. You can pre-order your items up until November 10th and then pick them up at the event. Even if you don’t want to pre-order, plan on attending the event! Many farms will be there with there food offerings and it’s usually a fun day for all! Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: For those members who are not vegan or vegetarian, we want to let you know that the current information about our organic, grass fed beef offering just went in the mail. If you have an interest in our organic grass fed beef, but are not on the list to receive the info as yet, just get in touch with the farm office to receive the info, or check out the information on our 2018 Beef Letter. WHAT’S IN YOUR SHARE THIS WEEK: Corn Tomatoes Carrots Green Beans Cauliflower Eggplant Peppers Potatoes Strawberries SOME SITES ONLY: Cherry Tomatoes Broccoli Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: The first delivery went very well…..a few mixups and missed boxes, but for the most part, it was smooth sailing. Thank you all for being timely in picking up your shares, and communicating when there was an issue. This week is supposed to be a bit cooler, which is good news for boxes sitting outside after delivery. Wild Child Flower Company is still accepting members for their flower CSA….pick up will begin in July at our Farm Stand on Wednesday, and there are other locations as well! To To enjoy a lovely bouquet each week, click on the Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: This is the 18th week of the season….NEXT week will be the end of the Standard Season, and we will move on to the Late Season. We ask that you scout around your garage and back yards for any stray CSA boxes that might have integrated themselves into your world, and bring them back to your site next week so we can have them all accounted for. This really helps us keep our costs down for next year if we don’t have to replace them….thanks for all of your help with this! HARVEST CELEBRATION!! Saturday, October 19th, Noon Read more

Hello! Can you believe it’s the middle of July already? We sure can’t. But the corn is past knee-high so it must be true. Thank you to everyone for continuing to follow safe social distancing and mask wearing. We are so looking forward to when we can see all of your smiles again. Don’t forget the first week of blueberry deliveries is this week. Your flats will be labeled with your name, so please double check you have yours, and make sure if you ordered more than one to pick them all up. The berries are plump and delicious, we Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: TOMATO SAUCE AND STRAWBERRY SPREAD are available for purchase! The costs are $8.75/jar and $90/case of 12 for the Tomato Sauce. The Strawberry Spread will be $4.75/jar and $50/case of 12. Please email or call if you would like to have these sent to your delivery location for you next week! NETTLE EDGE FARM GARLIC AVAILABLE! Keith Walton runs Nettle Edge Farm, along with his wife Rachel. Keith has been a prominent farmer in the community for 50 years, and his family farm has been in operation since 1911! He has worked on Winter Green Farm as our Read more

Well, everybody, we’ve made it to the end of August, and so far, everything’s turning up Winter Green! The energy is high, the weather has cooled a bit, and we are loving all the wonderful veggies so far. Special Announcements: As the season goes on, we’d like to ask that you stick to the pickup windows provided in your delivery information when you’re picking up your share. (They can also be found here on our website.) While we know it’s enticing to get to the site early, our delivery drivers won’t always be there before the specified time, and we Read more

We made it through Week One! I don’t know how it was on your end, but from my end, it was a little bumpy. I’d like to thank all of you for your patience as we navigate this new system, and I try to remember the dozens of details Linda juggled without her here to tell me! We’re so glad you’re with us this season, and we can’t wait to see what veggies will pop up next! Thank You to Those Who Came Out for the Potluck! For the first time since the pandemic started, we were able to celebrate Read more

Lettuce Carrots Sweet onions Radishes Spinach Kale Pac Choi (Tuesdays) Napa Cabbage (Fridays) We are now into the second week of the CSA harvest season and as you can see the boxes are looking bountiful! We hope you were happy with your first box, and your CSA pick-up becomes an enjoyable part of your weekly routine.  As you can see Tuesdays harvest will receive pac choi, and Friday’s harvest will recieve napa cabbage. Next week, Tuesday’s harvest will be getting napa cabbage in their box! We had feedback that some of you would like some more information on how to Read more

Yellow onions Savoy cabbage Pac choi Radishes Peppers Kale Apples Acorn squash Carrots Some sites only: Cauliflower NEWS FROM THE FIELD (AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION!) Hello members! We were so happy for a bit of a dry spell these last few days. Yesterday we were able to dig the rest of our potatoes, which is quite the relief! We are hoping that we will be able to do some more tilling and cover cropping this week as well as a few burdock harvests to catch us up from all that rain we had in September! Can you believe that next week Read more

Tomatoes Cucumbers Zucchini Cauliflower or broccoli Beets Carrots Lettuce Strawberries Green beans Recipes! Caramelized Spicy Green Beans from southernliving.com Sublime Strawberry Popsicles from theslowroasteditalian.com Pasta with Beet Greens from gourmet.com French “Peasant” Beets from food52.com News From the Field This week marks the middle of the regular season! Can you believe that it’s already mid-August? I can’t! I have been taking the same photo of the fields almost every week this season and as you can see the crops are filling in the bottom portion of the photo now! Your leeks and parsley are looking great! Farm owner Chris Overbaugh Read more

WHATS IN YOUR SHARE THIS WEEK: Collards Beets Lettuce Carrots Cauliflower Zucchini Strawberries SOME SITES ONLY: Broccoli Cherry Tomatoes RECIPES: Gumbo Z’Herbes Pasta w/Cauliflower & Collards Root Vegetable Stew with Herbed Dumplings General Tso’s Cauliflower Sicilian Cauliflower Pasta Sweet & Sour Strawberry Semifreddo w/Black Sesame Seeds I actually really love working on the farm….my commute is only 4 miles, and when I turn into the driveway, I am greeted by such a majestic view that I feel blessed every day! Such a gorgeous place to spend my days. That being said, today was even more glorious than usual…..the sun is Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEXT WEEK will be the last delivery of the season! If you have any stray CSA boxes lying around, please be sure to bring them to the delivery site either this week or next please….the more boxes that come back to the farm, the less we need to purchase for the 2018 season. We really appreciate your help with this! FILL YOUR PANTRY!  Today, November 10th, is the last day to pre-order for the Fill Your Pantry event which will happen on Sunday, November 19th. Click on this link to access the pre-ordering site: Fill Your Pantry Pre-Order STRAWBERRY Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hard to believe, but the end of this week will be September 1st, and the next monthly payment. If you have set up an automatic recurring payment, please be sure to get in touch if you have moved and your address is different, or if you have lost and received a new card….we appreciate your help so we don’t have payment failures! Thanks! STRAWBERRIES! We have fulfilled our promise of Strawberries in the CSA boxes, so we can begin to offer more Strawberry flats to you all…..if you would still like to receive a flat of our Strawberries Read more

“A recipe has no soul….you, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.” Thomas Keller SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: These are the folks who lovingly harvest, process and pack your fresh veggies from week to week! Front row left to right: Porter, Linda, Adelaide, Jesse, Hayley, Erin, Jordan, Jimi  Back row left to right: Ayla, Amy, Shenoa, Alden, Chris, Shannon, Maggie, Steve, Josh, Jeremy and Levi. I’ll be sharing some of their stories with you as the season progresses! WHAT’S IN YOUR SHARE THIS WEEK: Beets Lettuce ~ Green Butter Kale ~ Red Russian Carrots Fennel Napa Cabbage Walla Walla onion Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: This week is the last week of the 19 week Standard Season…..if you are continuing on into the Late Season, the first share will be on Friday, October 25th for the Eugene/Springfield, Fern Ridge and Coast members. Portland members shares will begin on Saturday, October 26th at PSU or Hollywood Farmers Markets or Sunday, October 27th at the King Farmers Market. HARVEST CELEBRATION! Please join us for our end of season Harvest Celebration!                                                   Read more

Hello! It is officially very hot here, and our farmers are working hard to take care of the crops and each other in the heat. The fields seem to be shimmering from the warmth and we find ourselves looking forward to the evening’s respite. We hope you have your favorite swimming holes—that aren’t too crowded—and are finding ways to stay cool and enjoying some lazy afternoons in the shade. Don’t forget the second (and final) week of blueberry deliveries is this week.  Strawberry flats are also going out this week! We will still take orders for the next few weeks. Read more

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: RESERVE YOUR SHARE FOR THE 2021 SEASON! If you would like to secure your CSA Share for the 2021 season, we are reserving shares with a $25 deposit. You can send a check to the farm, or we can use a debit/credit card info on file if you like. Otherwise just call/email the farm to have your share reserved. SNAP recipients will be exempt from the deposit but we can still reserve the share for you. WHAT’S IN YOUR SHARE THIS WEEK: Apples ~ Gravenstein  Carrots Pac Choi Daikon radish Collards Romanesco Lettuce ~ Red or Green Butter Read more

Welcome to Week 14 and the second week of September! We hope you’re making an easy transition to the school year or enjoying the last few weeks of the summer season. The chilly mornings and cool evenings are starting to creep in as fall gets closer, but the veggies are loving the seasonal change. Special Announcements: If you’re going on vacation, we would love to help you out! We have a vacation request form on our website that will allow you to either give your share to Food for Lane County for a tax-deductible donation, or receive a credit toward Read more