We are excited to be partnering again this year with Fat Moon Farm in Westford, MA to offer a Spring Mushroom CSA for pick-up at our farm stand! The Spring Mushroom CSA will be 8 weeks, from May 9th until the week of June 27th, and the price is $145. Sign-ups are available here: https://www.barrettsmillfarm.com/online-store/spring-mushroom-csa-from-fat-moon.
Each week the CSA includes one pound of Fat Moon's fresh, organic mushrooms. Over the course of the season, expect to get a taste of varieties like Shiitake, Chestnut, Lion's Mane, Pioppino, various Oyster mushrooms, and more! We will include information about what varieties are in your mushroom CSA each week in our farm newsletter. For more information (and photos) of each of each mushroom variety visit What We Grow on Fat Moon’s website.
For the first 3 weeks of the Spring Mushroom CSA, pick-ups will be set out at our self-serve farm stand on Tuesdays from 11am-6pm (May 9th, May 16th and May 23rd). For the remaining 5 weeks (starting May 30th) your mushrooms may be picked up any time during open farm stand hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am-6pm and Saturday 9am-3pm. Throughout the Spring Mushroom CSA we will be receiving our delivery on Monday afternoons and they will be kept in our cooler until pick-up, so while the mushrooms do hold well when refrigerated, we recommend Tuesday or Wednesday pick-up for the longest shelf life.
We are particularly looking forward to spring mushrooms because they go so well with our other early season crops available in May, including greens (which we are planting this week in our high tunnel!) and asparagus! If you’d like to learn more about how to store and cook mushrooms to make the most of them check out How To Clean and Store and Recipe Ideas on Fat Moon’s website.