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the Crossroads Companion

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted December 19, 2022

School’s Out for Summer: Fall Veggie Share #8 – 12/14/22

Okay, so it’s December. But in farmer speak, today feels like my last day of school. For twenty-eight consecutive weeks, starting in mid-June I do the following things for the veggie share program: Scout fields/storage and gather accurate [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted December 19, 2022

Oh, the Bright Snow: Fall Veggie Share, Week #7 – 12/7/22

The gray of late November and early December can be rough.  Crisp, bright-blue-sky snowy-ground-days can’t be counted on until January and February. My crew will be the first to tell you that the gray brings me down. It doesn’t make [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted December 19, 2022

Paper Pick-Me-Ups: Fall Veggie Share Week #6 – Wed. Nov. 30th

Just before the Thanksgiving, the farm did its member renewal drive for the upcoming summer 2023 season. It’s a 5 day drive, and we encourage members to sign up now so that the farm can spend the winter planning and doing community work, [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted December 19, 2022

Gratitude: Fall Veggie Share Week #5 – 11/22/22

Thanksgiving is complicated holiday for me. The cultural erasure that comes with the traditional American Thanksgiving story is incredibly problematic. My 7 year old came home last night, very excited to tell me about the story of Thanksgiving. [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted December 19, 2022

The Farmer and the Dog, Energetic Twins: Fall Veggie Share #4 – 11/16/22

In the original 101 Dalmatians, there is a super cute scene where they depict a cartoon montage of all these different humans walking their dogs. The dogs resemble their humans. The humans resemble their dogs. I loved it as a kid, and marvel at [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 8, 2022

Creating a Rainforest in Our Guts: Fall Share #3 – 11/9/22

Creating a Rainforest in Our Guts The other day I listened to a Radiolab podcast about our guts. And well I just can’t stop thinking about what I learned. In our bodies we contain an average 3 lbs worth of microorganisms- mostly bacterias [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Sipping the Fall Sun: Fall Veggie Share #2 – Wed. 11/2

For weeks now I’ve been bracing for the cold weather… that hasn’t come. These falls days are absolutely divine. I often tell my crews that the sunny afternoons in the fall are our gift for working through the hot days. They are [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Transition as the Constant: Fall Veggie Share #1 – Wed. 10/26

Each fall the transition is a little different from the busy summer season into the more mellow fall season. Most years there is a steady transition beginning in October of full time workers who move on to other jobs. For a month of so [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Sorry. Not Sorry. Veggie Share Week #20 – 10/19/22

Two Part Dispatch: 1) Sorry. Not Sorry. 2) A Big Thank You Sorry. Not Sorry.  On a hike this weekend I ate a simple salad my partner whipped up for lunch. It had chopped fresh parsley, green bell peppers, shaved fennel, toasted walnuts, and [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Thanks! AND Call to Support the Farm to Foodbank Program: Veggie Share Week #19 – 10/12/22

Two Part Dispatch: 1)The Farm to Foodbank Program 2) A Big Thank You The Farm To Foodbank Program Call to Action: Encourage Your Dane County Supervisor to Support this Awesome Program! Covid-19 was the impetus for a really cool program in Dane [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Photos from Painting Cooler W: Veggie Share Week # 18, Wed. 10/5/22

Last season we acquired a refrigerated truck trailer that we converted to a walk-in cooler. We call it cooler W, as it sits on the west side on our packshed. (creative, right?) We use it as a warm cooler during tomato time, and have increasingly [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

A Poem – Fall Garden: Veggie Share Week #17, Wed. 9/28/22

The concept of a life sacrificed to sustain and nourish the bodies of my family has always felt deeply spiritual to me.  Whether it’s the vegetables we take from the stem or the meat we eat, our bodies are sustained by something once [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Crew Member Shout Outs: Veggie Share Week #16 – Wed. Sept. 21st

Tomorrow night is our annual crew meal at Sardine Restaurant in Madison. We will all get dressed up and the farm will treat the crew to a fancy, locally sourced meal as we celebrate the season together. At the meal, I plan to share a little bit [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

When the Gradual Feels Sudden: Veggie Share #15 – 9/14/22

I know it’s gradual. Just like I know my kids growing up is gradual. Yet sometimes I feel struck by a change that feels sudden. This time of year is the going back to school time, the yellow time of goldenrod and school buses and [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Potato Reflections from a Member: Veggie Share Week #14 – Wed. 9/7/22

This season we have been staffed pretty well and generally able to stay above water – aka not drown in food we can’t harvest. But potatoes, oh potatoes. These have been the major crop that we have struggled to have enough hands to [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Back to School on the Farm: Veggie Share Week #13 – 8/31/22

The kids go back to school Thursday. Every year it seems the summer is spread out before us, and then, zip! it’s back to school already. You might think that the kids going back to school wouldn’t impact Michael and I too much since [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

Future Pastors’ Visit: Veggie Share #12 – Wed. 8/24/22

A few months back, a professor reached out asking if they could bring their class to our farm for a visit. The class was a group of divinity students from University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. This request confused me somewhat, because I [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted November 1, 2022

How I Can Bear to Eat the Animals I Raise – Week #10- 8/10/22

This weekend we butchered the 39 chickens I raise to nourish our family. It is always a difficult, spiritual experience for me.  I raise these birds from chick to slaughter. I do this because my kids LOVE chicken. They were always requesting it, [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Homemade Croutons Are Where It’s At: Week #9 – 8/3/22

Homemade Croutons are Where It’s At Yep. That’s right. I’m going to write a whole newsletter about making croutons. Store bought croutons are one thing. They are crunchy and salty, spicy and hard. This can be yummy. Warm, [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

The First Sweet Corn!: Veggie Share Week #8 – 7/27/22

The First Sweet Corn!  This morning was the first harvest of sweet corn! Our sweet corn successions are located at the K property this season. So most Tuesday  mornings now for the next 8 weeks, the crew will start over there. Myself or another [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Greetings from Minnesota – Week #7 – 7/20/22

Greetings from Minnesota Greetings from family camp! (I’m writing this message on a rainy Friday afternoon, because once I’m actually up at family camp, there is no internet access!). This week the Noltnerwyss kids are with me up in [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Playing in the Fields: Veggie Share Week #6 – July 13

Playing in the Fields This morning I am forcing myself to do work in the office.  It’s funny, I spend the whole winter doing office work – so many hours! But try and get me to spend more than two hours in the office during the high [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

A Magical Place to Grow Up: Veggie Share #5 – Wed., July 6th

A Magical Place To Grow Up Middle school is tough. No matter where you grow up. The pressure to fit into the norm is intense. In Mt. Horeb, the popular kids don’t come from farming families. In general, they come from hetero-normative [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

An Ice-cream Maker: Veggie Share #4 -Wed., June 29

An Ice-cream Maker I found myself in a conversation the other day, musing about ways to raise the quality of life at the farm house. Build a back porch? Maintain a cozy fire pit for friends to come enjoy? A swimming pool so kids would want to [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Solstice Musings: Veggie Share #3 – June 22

Happy Solstice! Today marks a special day – the most day light we will experience all year long. It sneaks up on me every time, and I find it so wild to think about how the days only get shorter from here on out. I wonder if any of you [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Don’t Play with the Stove: Veggie Share Week #2 – Wed, June 15

My youngest daughter Juna wrote me some poems. (Love love that in general.) Many of the poems are like what you’d expect from a 7 year-old writing poems. Except one. I am in love with this poem – the home cook in me finds it [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Vegetables or Cake?: Crossroads Veggie Share – Week #1- 6/8/22.

Welcome! Happy season ’22! It was a long, cold, late spring. Sometimes I wondered if the sun, heat, or food would arrive. We kept seeding and planting, trusting in the cycle of things.  Now here we are, and the food is harvested and ready [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Last Day Joys: Fall Veggie Share Week #8 – 12/15/21

Last Day Joys! Remember when you were a student and all the excitement you felt on the last day of school? That’s me today! Here I am putting together the last communication of the season – curating the last set of recipes, writing [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Moving Through the Inventory: Fall Veggie Share Week #7 – 12/8/21

Moving Through the Inventory A question we get a lot is, “What are you doing this time of year?” Quick answer: we are steadily moving through our inventory of vegetables, trying to sell items with shorter storage lives. In mid [...]

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By Cassie Noltnerwyss
In CSA Newsletter
Posted August 2, 2022

Waiting for Snow: Fall Veggie Share Week #6 – 12/1/21

Waiting for Snow Did you know there are still leeks, brussels sprouts, and kale out in fields that can be harvested?! On the one hand, I’m so excited about that fact. Local greens and delicious sprouts still available in December! Amazing! [...]

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