December 16

Box Contents:

1 ½ lbs Mixed Carrots

1 bu Red Chard

1-3 hds Cauliflower

1 bu Tokyo Turnips

½ lb Arugula

1 Butternut Squash

1 ½ lbs Mixed Beets

Field Notes: This Saturday, December 21st, is the Winter Solstice, the day with the shortest daylight hours and the longest nighttime hours of the year. Each year, the solstice marks a new beginning for us at the farm: the time when the lengthening daylight hours triggers more egg laying (gradually), when we spend time reviewing last year’s successes and challenges, and when we start ordering seeds for the coming year. The rainy days help with making time for working on our farm plan for the coming year too. We’re looking forward to safe, prosperous, and fruitful 2020!

Happy Solstice and Holidays to all!

Holiday Hams are still available for ordering. We received some smaller smoked hams from Roundman’s Smokehouse where we have all of our bacon and ham smoked and cured. (We thought we were almost out of hams but found out they had finished smoking/curing some more last week). The available hams average 5 lbs each. For this week, the ordering deadline is 24 hours before your deliver day and we can also deliver the hams to the farmers markets when you pre-order them. Or you can order hams for after the holidays anytime until they are sold out. The smoked hams are $10 per lb. The hams come from our pasture raised hogs that are fed an all organic diet of produce culls, whey from Cowgirl Creamery, certified organic grain and rye grass. You can place your order by emailing the farm: csa@riverdogfarm.com. We deliver the hams frozen. They are pre-cooked (smoked and cured).

Holiday Schedule

December CSA: The farm will be closed from Sunday December 22 through Sunday January 5, 2020. We will resume the regular CSA delivery schedule the week of Monday January 6, 2020 with the exception of delivering CSA boxes to the Saturday market on January 4, 2020.  

Farmers Markets: The Berkeley Farmer’s Market will be closed: Tuesday December 24, 2019, Thursday December 26, 2019, Saturday December 28, 2019 and Tuesday December 31, 2019. We may attend the farmers market in Berkeley on January 2, 2020, weather permitting but will not do CSA deliveries to market that day. We will not be at the Sacramento Sunday farmers markets on Sunday December 29, 2019. Our first farmer’s market in 2020 will be: Saturday January 4 in Berkeley on Center and MLK.

CSA Payment Schedule

The 2020 delivery schedule is attached to the newsletter email this week.

We encourage you to consider making the annual payment for your veggie box deliveries. This helps support the farm by providing advance purchasing power for labor, seeds, fertilizers, and other farming expenses that are essential to the farm’s operations. Thank you for supporting the farm with your continued CSA subscription!