The farm kitchen smells amazing right now. The kitchen crew has been busy working with apples this week, including:

Apple Pie with Crumb Topping: Also known as Dutch Apple Pie. The trick to this pie is to make the filling a few days ahead. Soak the apples with cinnamon and sugar to pull out a bit of the water. The resulting juices are cooked down and added back to the apples, dusted in flour, to provide for apples with texture in a juicy, flavor rich filling. Topped with a crumb topping of flour, oats, brown sugar and butter.

Serve warm and with ice cream for maximum smiles!

Apple Cinnamon Loaf. We are replacing the zucchini bread this week with a new quick bread. Apples are folded into a sweet batter for a moist breakfast or dessert bread. Only $5 per loaf.

Fruit is quickly disappearing with the cool nights. This is the last week we'll have many of the tree fruits other than apples and pears.

Blackberries are too unreliable right now to list online. If we get any in, they will be at the back of the truck

TREE FRUITS



Nectarines - 2# bags - $7 (last week for them)

Peaches - 2# bags - $5 (last week)

Stanley Prune Plums - 1.5# bags - $4

PEARS & APPLES

Bartlett Pears - new lower price - 2.5# bag - $4

We worked with the orchard to drop the price. We took a "field run" - which means we get the #2s in a 1,000# bin. We'll grade out the pears and process the #2s in the kitchen for higher value preserves so we can offer fresh pears at a better price.

Honeycrisp - 6 ct $6. The gold standard of eating apples, intensely sweet and crunchy.

Paula Red - 6 ct, approx 2.5# - $3.50

Early, sweet apple that cooks down great for sauce and pies, but also a decent eater. A dusty, dull skin gives it a distinctive look.

Gala - 6 ct, approx 2.5# - $4

Fan favorite, great crunch, sweet flavor, and all around great apple.

Zestar - 6 ct, approx 2.5#, for $3.5

As the name implies, this apple has a sweet tart flavor that gives it a signature "zest" on the tongue.

Fall Decor Pack

$ 35

The staff at the warehouse has been itching to put this together for a while. All the talk lately has been about the cute little pumpkins, assorted gourds, and such.

Each fall decor basket includes:

• Wooden Apple Crate (with real life patina)
• 1 Fall Mum (annual)
• 1 mini straw bale
• 1 bunch indian corn
• Assorted gourds/squashes (approx 3 to 4 depending on size)

Carving pumpkins not included.

Fresh Fork in the winter isn't all kale and turnips; it's a chance for us to show off how we have been planning ahead all year.

Our winter program is a bigger bag, and after Thanksgiving it is every-other-week. The season starts out with cold hardy crops, transitions to more meat and storage crops, and ends with more prepared items. We have fun over the winter with projects like our farm-made quiches, pepperoni rolls, ratatouille, soups and more.

Here are the winter highlights:

• Omnivore and Vegetarian Options available (vegetarian very limited)
• One Size Package - more similar to the summer large
• Schedule - Starts Nov 1, first 3 weeks in a row, then every other week until mid May
• Same vacation policy and guarantee. 4 weeks can be put on hold and cancel at anytime.
• Flexible re-occurring billing available with credit card on file
• 13 area pickup locations, Wednesday thru Saturday

For full details on the winter program and samples of past bags, please visit this page: Winter Season Overview.

We hope to see you out there this winter!

Trevor

* We do feed the yeast in the pizza dough with honey. If you need a substitute for the pizza dough in your vegan share, please let the greeter know and we will take care of it.