This Week’s LUCSA Box
For Box Delivery: 1/14, 1/15, 1/16 - 2026
Fresh Produce:
Sauerkraut
Lettuce Mix or Microgreens
Thyme
Butternut Squash
Potatoes
Carrots
Weekly Staples:
Mick Klug Apple Cider
Mushrooms
Bread
Eggs
Any share changes must be submitted to lucsa@theurbancanopy.org by Monday at 11AM
Weekly Add-Ons
Add locally-sourced food and home goods to your box to round out your CSA delivery. Add-ons save trips to the grocery store and allow you to get more of what you want conveniently delivered inside your LUCSA share.
Access the Add-On Shop through our member portal.
This Week in the Shop:
Upton’s - Bacon Seitan — On Sale $2.50
*Reminder: Add-Ons must be ordered by Monday at 11AM
Item Feature: Sauerkraut
This week features a jar of classic fermented sauerkraut made with organic green cabbage, mustard seed and caraway. As a fermented food, it will not be shelf-stable and sealed like vinegar pickles and needs to be refrigerated. As a lacto-fermented food, sauerkraut provides a ton of beneficial bacteria and probiotics that promote gut and digestion health.
Sauerkraut is also associated with the New Year and good luck. German Americans commonly eat pork and sauerkraut on New Years day to bring good luck and many Eastern European families traditionally make a new batches of sauerkraut on New Years to take advantage of extra hands being around to help with chopping and salting and packing.
Sauerkraut is great with a sausage or served with roasted potatoes, but think of all the creative ways to incorporate it into your seasonal dishes. Pizza topping, dumpling filling or layered on a grilled cheese.
What To Do With Your Jar of Sauerkraut:
Substitutions
Items for those already opting out of beverage, bread, mushrooms, or eggs OR having a conflicting allergy; subject to change, even if specified. Please refer back to this newsletter throughout the week for updates
Daikon Radish - Garden Gate Farm (Fairbury, IL)
Storage Tip - Keep very dry stored in a perforated bag in the refrigerator for up to a month.
Celery Root - Frillman Farms (Berrien Springs, MI)
Storage Tip - Keep loosely wrapped or in an open plastic bag in the crisper for about three weeks.
Pinto Beans - Carlson-Arbogast Farms (Howard CIty, MI)
Storage Tip - Store beans in a reusable container or plastic bag in a cool, dry place.
Purple Top Turnips - Garden Gate Farm (Fairbury, IL)
Storage Tip - Best stored in the refrigerator crisper or lowest shelf.
*Farming is never 100% Predictable
Please keep in mind that share contents may vary due to market availability so contents may vary slightly from this list. We appreciate your flexibility.
Pro-Tip for Produce Longevity
When your share arrives, immediately unpack your produce and move into proper storage containers!
Always Wash Before Eating
As a general best practice with all produce including ours, we recommend washing produce before eating.
Please Remember to Save and Return LUCSA Packaging
We request that you return your wax box and Finn’s Ranch egg cartons during your next delivery. Help practice sustainability by helping us re-use all of these items for future deliveries.
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Our recipe reels provide additional information on how to use produce and processing items each week!
We have created a handy Produce Guide which includes most items you will be getting in your box this season and through out the year. It is helpful for identification and has lots of storage tips, and also includes a log of recipes. It’s not a bad idea to bookmark this page!
Previous Boxes
If you missed a week and want to see what was in a previous share, we archive a PDF of all our previous newsletters here.
You can also use it to look at previous seasons if you are interested to see what crops are coming.
