Friends of the Farm-
Happy New Year & welcome back the return of our weekly CSA in 2023!
Here's to wishing you had a lovely holiday season, with nutritious food and warm company.
We welcome new beginnings with the start of a new year with excitement to continue to deliver organic produce to you & our greater community.
As year-round, Northern California farmers, we've been getting a bit wet this past week. Heavy rains have brought an abundance of water to the farm and the region. Our well-draining soils and farm infrastructure have worn it well. The farm marches on even in the rain, so many cheers to the spirit of our team to get it done and deliver this fresh produce through the rain drops. That said, this week we spent what time we could working on greenhouse work, future succession seeding, crop planning, and preserve projects. Enter one of them in this week's box - Persimmon Preserve!
Here's to wishing all a safe & warm weekend ahead, with this system still bringing more rain in forecast for many more days.
Note, our farm stand bread partner, Bedstone Baking will be taking a few weeks off and return with bread service on Friday January 20th.
Our farm stand remains open and stocked!
For our recipe this week I couldn't help but be reminded of my mom's love of a roast chicken on a winter weekend (it seemed to particularly be a Sunday afternoon meal, from memory). The ingredients in this week's box, plus the winter weather has me craving just this. Accompanied with a big, fresh salad and sliced tender radishes, I know just what is in the cards at my house this weekend. Join me for a spin on this classic.
Lastly, we welcome you to enjoy our weekly music playlist.
The theme of winter rain continues here as well. Songs with "Rain" in their titles, or those that invoke that rainy day feeling. It can be all blue, so there are some funky and high-tempo treasures interwoven to keep things bright. A favorite recent discovery represented twice in this week's mix is Japanese jazz-man, Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media. It's a groove. The same could also be said of the transition from Depeche Mode's Waiting for the Night and Pink Floyd's Echoes. Give it a listen!
All our best from the farm,
Tom & William and Live Oak Farm team
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