2024 CSA Week 14

It's definitely looking like fall out there.  Leaves are starting to change, garden plants are beginning to set out seeds, and the nights are turning cooler.  Your farmers, however, aren't slowing down.  We're still tilling ground, planting, harvesting, cutting hay, and lots more.  

This week's features

  • Wild for Salmon seafood has been restocked
  • Ground cherries from Glacial Till Farm are back this week, but just 10 bags
  • Cucumbers from Sweetwater Farm are back
  • It's still tomato season!  Bags and boxes...we're overloaded right now.
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Featured Business

Clarion River Organics:  Five Amish vegetable farmers settled on the banks of the Clarion River in 2001 and worked together to market their certified organic produce to Pittsburgh grocery stores and farms. In 2008 they hired Zeb Baccelli and Nathan Holmes to do their deliveries. This partnership worked out so well for the farmers that they offered to build a warehouse for shared use and turn over all sales and marketing the the Englishmen if they would form a business to manage the cooperative. Clarion River Organics (CRO) was born in 2009 and has since grown to a 12 farm cooperative, offering certified organic produce and jarred specialty products to our local market of Pittsburgh as well all over the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West.  

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Their mission is to apply the most holistic and natural farming techniques to maintain soil life and plant health, to provide the most nutritious, best tasting products, and to share the vibrant farm life by facilitating direct personal experiences of connection between customer, farmer, and land.

Family Owned. All of our farms are family owned and operated.  Most of the families are Amish and all of them practice organic farming principles. Our Amish farmers use horse farming and ice houses for much of their storage, these farms produce abundantly while using a smaller amount of fuels and electricity.

All of Clarion River Organics' farmers share a philosophy of caring for the soil to keep it "living," and they want to keep their sales local.  For both of these reasons our farmers are doing their part to care for the Earth while making a living doing what they love.

Clarion River Organics is a farmers cooperative much like NWPA Growers.  We carry some Clarion River Organic jarred foods including pickles, relish, and salsa.  From time to time, we offer some veggies from them, too.

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Recipes

Pan-Seared Cod in White Wine Tomato Basil Sauce

Green Beans with Apples and Sage Butter

Aloo Palak (Spinach and Potato Curry)

Spinach and Mushroom Crustless Quiche

Mediterranean Salmon

A quick and delicious treatment for salmon is Maple Mustard.

Soup weather will be here this weekend, so I'm making Zuppa Toscana with lamb sausage from our freezer.  I already have homemade chicken broth in the fridge, so it will be a quick and easy meal.

Enjoy the taste of fall!