Greetings from a foggy, soggy Dancing Hen Farm!
We will be running our Winter Buying Club this weekend. That means ordering is now open and will
close on Thursday morning at 5 am. If
you have questions about delivery locations and/or times, please contact us at
the farm. All ordering is done online
for the buying club. If you have not
already done so, you will need to create an account and "purchase" a
free winter buying club share. Once
purchased, we will need to activate before you can order, so there will be a
delay between registering and being able to order. We will continue to run the buying club for several
weeks or until our storage crops are finished and our greens are frozen beyond
harvest.
This week on the buying club we have a good supply of apple
orchard pork and eggs. Storage crops
available include sweet potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets and cabbage. We also have some salad and cooking greens
available, including, mustard, kale, chard, mixed salad greens and arugula.
Hopefully everyone had a great Thanksgiving and everyone has
recovered from the post dinner food coma!
Our dinner was peaceful and the food plentiful. We are still eating leftovers! I will be cooking down the turkey frame over
the weekend to make soup. I think I
enjoy turkey frame soup almost as much as the Thanksgiving meal! My soup usually is a turkey version of
chicken corn soup. Chicken corn soup was
a stable in my Pennsylvania Dutch family.
Following my Mother's and Grandmothers' leads, I think my chicken (or
turkey) corn soup is a bit different each time I make it. I will say, I do not add hard boiled eggs to
my soup. I did not even know they were
in corn soup until I moved to central PA, where everyone's corn soup included
eggs. I also generally do not add homemade
rivels or dumplings to my soup, but I do often add some thin egg noodles. If you google Pennsylvania Dutch chicken corn
soup, you will get a good list of websites with recipes. My mouth is watering just writing about this
soup!
Please watch your emails closely for the opening of registration
for our 2017 CSA. We are planning some
changes for next year. We will be offering
a shorter main season and also a fall season.
The main season will run for 18 weeks and the fall season will follow
the main season and run for 8 weeks. We
will again be offering add on egg and chicken shares. Discounts will be offered for retuning
members, members registering early and members purchasing both the main and
fall season shares. We anticipate the
website to be updated shortly and once we are up and running, I will send an
email out to all members.
Last Saturday, Farmers Don and Phil had a great
adventure. Rather than doing buying club
deliveries, they were in the stands at Beaver Stadium cheering Penn State on to
a victory. This was Farmer Phil's first time at a Penn State game. Even though the day was a bit windy and
chilly, both farmers report having a great time. Rumor has it Farmer Phil was high fiving
everyone around them in the stands! Now
they are trying to convince me they should go to Penn State's bowl game. But first Farmer Phil is traveling with his
Mom and Dad to Disney World for some Christmas pre-gaming!
Until next week.......
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