September 17th, 2025
What’s in your share?
Kale
Heirloom Tomatoes OR Green Beans
Storage Onions
Carola Potatoes
Sweet Bell Peppers
Sweet Italian Frying Peppers
Cherry Tomatoes
Carola Potatoes are a think skinned potato with extra creamy flesh. They are delicious roasted or smashed, boiled or mashed. They store great but make sure to keep them out of the sun and in a cool spot.
Now for some insight into what we (but mostly Sam) has been working on in addition to slinging veggies. We’re hosting an event at our farm this Saturday and you are welcome to join if you have interest in this topic!
This is an email that Sam wrote and sent out to farmers and farmworkers in Southeastern Wisconsin:
Though Fall's timely and - no doubt - necessary Equinox marks a natural call towards contraction and rhythmic dormancy, my mind and my heart abstain! Ya, NO! I turn energetically towards you and us. So much of my spring and summer's energy fixated on me and mine, my plot, my vegetables, my customers - the ceaseless and clawing attention. I do love it, but NOW, I am ready for you and ours. From my farm to OUR Southeastern Wisconsin farm ecosystem. From my successes and challenges to OUR successes and challenges. From I oughta, to WE MUST. And with that, I open myself to become a part of something this fall, this winter, next season; something greater than myself, something new, something with all of you, all of us in combination, more than parts together, but one solid new thing!
With so much love and joy - I invite you to join Wisconsin Farmers Union, the Milwaukee Food Council, Fondy Farmers Market, NourishMKE, and UWExtension this Saturday 9/20, 4-6pm at Village Farmstead for a happy hour, farm tour, and - most importantly - panel discussion. We will dive into how we move from our current status - as separate characters of and subjects to our food system - to one organized force, authors and catalysts of OUR food system and the FUTURE we desperately need! We will be inviting representatives from different food-buying industries (institutional buyers, wholesalers, and food pantries) to talk about why it's so damn hard to source food locally. Concertedly, we will explore practices and models implemented around the state that are successfully bringing more local food to more people. And, from there we will begin the longer discussion of how we in Southeastern Wisconsin can begin developing our own farm network. One that communicates with buyers, coordinates demand and production, and facilitates cooperation amongst growers to grow the food we each ought to grow for our food system and people that need it. We need each other, in cooperation, now more than ever, to ensure a dignified and fulfilling future - for ourselves as farmers and farmworkers, for the people we feed, and - most urgently - for the environment and the more-than-human world that makes our farms and all life POSSIBLE in the first place.
No? not cool enough... Well FINE! Central Waters and Ledgestone Vineyards are providing FREE BEER AND WINE - Plus, Village Farmstead (Sara and I) are making farm-fresh horderves (How many mini BLTs can you eat???).