Share Notes- Nov. 20, 2025

November 19, 2025 · by Red Moon Farm · in Farm News

CSA Share Notes:

Your vegetable line-up:

Broccoli —A very nice helping for everyone.
Cauliflower — Plenty to go around!
Cabbage — A large, beautiful Tendersweet cabbage for the large shares, a Savoy-leaved (crinkly) cabbage for the regular shares, and a petite round cabbage for the Mini shares.
Arugula — peppery and delicious
Mustard Mix — spicy and flavorful with all the lovely textures and colors
Collards — For the large shares only
Garlic — The very last few bulbs.
Radish — Red Rover radishes for Large and Regular, French Breakfast for Mini. You’ll notice frost damage on the leaves of the radishes this week. Either discard the leaves, or trim away the damage so they don’t spoil their neighboring leaves. Same strategy with damaged turnip leaves, friends!
Turnips — Purple Top turnips for the Regular and Large shares. The purple top are the southern heirloom and here’s what to do (of course you’re welcome to seek out alternative options) Cube up the roots, chop the greens, chop a yellow onion and a few cloves of garlic, and one jalapeno if you like. Also, chop up 2 slices of bacon, or a bit of ham. Once all ingredients are ready, cook the bacon until it’s cooked through but still tender- add in the onion and optional jalapeno, saute till soft. Add the garlic for 1 minute. Add the roots and saute until soft, and last add the chopped greens and wilt them. You can add a dash of tobasco to it at the end for a bit of southern flair. And there you have it, folks, southern turnip greens.
Acorn Squash — The final squash of the year! Cant wait to grow more next summer.

Items from other neighboring farms:

Meems’ Garden — Persimmons! — These were grown by Jessica’s mom and dad right here at Red Moon Farm. They’ve cultivated about a half-dozen beautiful, healthy trees and every few years we are lucky to receive an abundant harvest. This was a good year! Make sure to ripen them fully before cutting into them. They should be deep orange and soft like a pear or peach when ready to cut.
Tony Philips — Sweet Potatoes — Our friend and neighbor Tony Philips grows the regions best sweet potatoes, just a couple of miles from Red Moon Farm. These are fantastic, sweet, with a long storage life. Enjoy them on the regular. You’ll get lots more throughout the fall!
- A few notes about Tony’s Practices: He is not aiming to be organic, so some years the above-ground parts of the plants have non-organic products used on them, however, the roots never have anything applied to them.
- Usual standard practice in commercial sweet potato production is to use sprout-inhibitors on the crop post-harvest, and these chemical compounds are known to be extremely harmful to the thyroid and other hormonal systems in the human body.** (It’s why, when we can’t get them from a local grower and have to rely on a grocery store, our family chooses to only buy organic potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and garlic.) Well, Lucky us: Tony Philips never, ever uses sprout-inhibitors. His potatoes simply get a clean water bath to rinse the ETX sand off of them, so we eat them with confidence, and we believe you can, too.

Veggie Storage tips:

Everything wants to be washed well before cooking, but keep the dirt on till then, to prevent faster spoilage.
Acorn squash, garlic, and sweet potatoes like to be out at room temperature in a dry spot.
All leafy greens, the radishes, turnips, broccoli, etc all want to be in your fridge. Seal them up in a bag or container to retain moisture for longest storage life.

We’d love to hear stories and recipes of your culinary adventures this week. Tag us on Instagram or Facebook, showing us how you’ve used your CSA share.

Your farmers, Jess & Justin