this week's 
HARVEST  LIST

This list may change,
Rushton Farm Bag but here's our best guess of what you'll be getting in your share this week.
 
    
Butternut Squash
Sweet Potatoes
Kale
Purple top Turnips
Cabbage
Fennel
Leeks
Brussels Sprouts
Celeriac
Carrots
Shallots
Onions
Garlic

2015 CSA MANUAL
Just about everything you need to know about the Rushton Farm CSA is located HERE!
CSA manual

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Email is our primary means of communicating all CSA matters, so please contact us if your address changes, or if you'd like a family member's address to be added to the CSA mailing list.   

WHEREABOUTS
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Rushton Farm is located within the 85-acre Rushton Woods Preserve on Delchester Road, just south of Goshen Road in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. 

Address: 
911 Delchester Road Newtown Square, PA 




Fred de Long- Director 
Noah Gress- Field Manager
Chelsea Allen- Field Manager
Eliza Gowen- Outreach Coordinator
Todd Alleger-  Agroecology Project Coordinator
Jared Ingersoll-  Rushton Farm Apprentice
Katie Pflaumer- Research Student- U. of Penn.
ARCHIVES
See prior email communications from Willistown Conservation Trust, including recipes and past issues of the Wild Carrot. Go to the archive.   

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Week of October 27, 2015  Issue No. 22
IN THE BAG Tidbits from Fred 

Autumn moon rises over Rushton Farm

End of Season
 
This week marks the end of the eighth season of the Rushton Farm CSA. As we enter our final week of pickups we look back upon what can be best described as an "adventurous" season. It started with rain making it difficult to turn the fields but we managed to get the crops planted and we had one of our earliest tomato harvests ever. After that it was about heat and drought. Lack of rain pushed us to irrigate constantly which lead to many hours in the sun moving irrigation lines and trying to protect the crops. The season has had a pleasant end with only one frost allowing us to hold crops for our Thanksgiving Harvest on Friday, November 20th (from 2 - 6). It has also resulted in our largest October share ever with Brussels sprouts, shallots, butternut squash and fennel highlighting the pickup.


Jed wants your feedback!

All in all it was a successful season despite the conditions. We were happy to share the harvest with our members and share the farm with the surrounding community. In two weeks we will be sending out a "Wild Carrot" with information about next year and a survey asking for feedback about this past season. We still have two more issues of The Wild Carrot so check your mailbox on Tuesdays to get end of season information and news on our winter wrap up. Please look for this information as we are already making exciting plans for next season and would like to hear back from our members. 

THE DIRT Notes from the field
 

As we begin our winter shutdown we are offering one final chance to purchase honey and Rushton swag. We have just received our new Rushton hats which along with the Rushton harvest bags will be available for $15 each. We also have a limited amount of honey left. Hats, honey, and bags make great presents Items will be on the sign in table in the Farmshed. . Cash or checks are welcome. 
Boo's at the Barn 
Friday, October 30th from 4-6pm

Reminder Boo's at the Barn will take place this Friday from 4 - 6pm.  Parents and kids are encouraged to come out for a final evening on the farm.  There will be cider, treats and pumpkins for the kids and other refreshments as well.  The Hetzel Brothers will again grace us with their wonderful music.  Come one, come all - it will be a lot of fun!  
Fresh cider will be featured on Friday 

 

About Us

  

Rushton Farm is part of Willistown Conservation Trust's Community Farm Program.  donate nowWillistown  Conservation Trust is a non-profit organization working to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities, and to share these unique resources with people of all ages and backgrounds to inspire, educate and develop a lifelong commitment to the land and the natural world.
 
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