Morning Song Farm News

Such beautiful greens now that we're in the cooler weather! This is the first week we're harvesting our Georgia Greens. Need home delivery? We offer home delivery to many of the communities we serve (North San Diego Coastal, South Orange County, Fallbrook, Rainbow and Temecula. Just ask! To communicate questions about our beautiful, organic produce boxes here's the link we've set up specifically for our produce box customers so that communications don't get lost in our inbox: click here.  We'd love to hear from you! Want more information? Here's our website: www.morningsongfarm.com.

Here's a shot of what we plan on harvesting for our Home Delivery Farm Boxes for November 16, 2016.  (We only have a few group deliveries now, most of our members have opted for Home Delivery in communities that we offer it in.)  Fyi, this week's Hachiya persimmons need to be fully ripe! They're more like a pudding fruit than anything else. If you get impatient and try biting into one of these pretty fruits before they're ready, you won't do it again. Just awful! They're also wonderful dried, almost like candy.

So I owe a heartfelt apology to my beautiful flock of egg laying chickens. I assumed they were huge wallet breaking feathered slackers after suddenly....80 chickens, no eggs. No eggs, meaning not even one egg. Horrors, I had to buy store eggs, a task I haven't had to submit to for many years, not to mention my CSA members who have included eggs in their orders wouldn't be getting their eggs, either. Yes, production wanes in the shorter nights of fall and winter, but this was  like nothing I've seen. Like a faucet was turned off. So we were working in their barn and spotted quite the unusual sight: a giant black crow happily flying into the barn, navigating through the window, and managing somehow to get a just laid egg in its beak, and flying away. Then another. And another. So I've disparaged my birds unfairly. Egg-eating black crow bandits are to blame. Who knew there was such a thing? I'm sorry chickens!

Come on out to Morning Song Farm for our beginning cheese making class. Sign up on our meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Morning-Song-Farm-Cheese-Making/events/227609963/  We'll focus January's very small class on a few of the fun and easy cheeses that will easily turn you into a cheese maker! Impress your friends with cheesey offerings and try out a fun and different hobby that brings dividends of appreciation. You may find that you'll discover a passion for cheese as we have here at Morning Song Farm. It's easier than you'd ever think! Follow along with handouts and easy to follow recipes so that your success is insured when you repeat the steps at home. We'll talk about which milk to use, cultures, and why certified organic milk isn't your best choice.  We'll make three or four different cheeses; Garlic Ricotta, Herbed Queso Fresco,  Feta and Chevre  are among those we choose to make and sample during the class.  Don't be afraid to bring