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Today’s share will include: lettuce, choice of greens, beets, gold potatoes, cauliflower, acorn squash, celery, baby bok choy and choice of an herb.
Update & Share: 10/29/19
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Today’s share will include: lettuce, salad turnips, choice of arugula or broccoli raab, garlic, spinach, peppers, sweet potatoes, daikon, sweet dumpling squash and choice of an herb.
Farmer John will be offering a stock-up share once again this year. To learn more, click here.
Update & Share: 10/22/19
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Today’s share will include: lettuce, peppers, delicata squash, fingerling potatoes, rainbow carrots, radishes, choice of arugula or broccoli raab, spinach, green cabbage and a choice of herb.
Update & Share: 10/8/19
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Today’s share will include: peppers, broccoli or napa cabbage, purple majesty potatoes, parsnips, lettuce, radishes, choice of arugula or mustard greens, acorn squash, garlic, cauliflower, herb choice and warted gourds.
Update & Share: 10/1/19
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Today’s share will include: lettuce, peppers, choice of kale or chard, green beans, rainbow carrots, choice of broccoli raab or arugula, broccoli or cabbage, gold potatoes, squash, scallions and an herb choice.
Update & Share: 9/24/19
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Today’s share will include: beans, peppers, potatoes, beets, choice of kale or collards, red onions, choice of argula or broccoli raab, butternut squash and a choice of an herb.
From Ginger of Treelicious Farms:
This week we are sending a pint of mixed green gage and empress purple plums along with boxes of Macintosh and gala apples to each site. The pints are already packed for each full share. For the apples, we will ask each member to select for their share from the boxes of apples delivered 2lbs of gala apples and 2lbs of Macintosh – for a total of 4lbs per share. Each location will receive boxes of apples labeled with the variety and sufficient apples to provide each member with the apples and likely some extra to be enjoyed by the members. We are packing this way for this week only due to a family funeral today. We will resume packing individual shares next week. We thank you for your understanding.
This Saturday at the Orchard we are hosting a Harvest Festival at our Farm including vendors picking and live music. We are just starting to pick our Macoun apples. Saturday evening we are hosting a Farm to Table Dinner from 5pm to 8pm. Please join us for a day in the country. The Apple crop is spectacular this year – large apples and deep color.
Update & Share: 9/17/19
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Today’s share will include: peppers, tomatoes, onions, salad turnips, string beans, arugula, spaghetti squash, zucchini, lettuce, corn, potatoes.
Update & Share: 9/10/19
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Today’s share will include: lettuce, kale, green cabbage, radishes, peppers, beans, sweet corn, garlic, squash or cucumbers.
Serving Suggestions: 9/3/19
Welcome to the newest installment of Serving Suggestions, the third of 2019! This week we have a suggestion from Bob on how to use some of the root vegetables that might start piling up with this week’s share:
A few weeks back, I decided to grab some of the kohlrabi from the extras basket. When I first started the CSA back in 2016, kohlrabi was something I had neither seen nor tasted before. Those first bulbs sat in the crisper drawer for weeks as I contemplated what to do with them. I added them to a stir fry for some crunch which was a nice touch but fell short of the potential I thought kohlrabi had. After some online searching, I came upon the idea of grating kohlrabi into latkes (potato pancakes). Three years later, I returned to my original inspiration and am ready to make another batch tonight. Making shredded vegetable pancakes is a grate (!) way to use up some of the root vegetables that are accumulating in your kitchen. A mixture of kohlrabi, potato and onion is what I’m aiming for tonight. Zucchini would also be a welcome addition if you still had some on hand. I haven’t tried it yet but I wonder if grated beet, in small a quantity, would work as well. No matter what veggies you choose, start by ringing out excess moisture before you mix with eggs, flour, salt and pepper. Fry the patties in a slick of oil in a nonstick pan until crisp. I like to serve with a horseradish sour cream (simply prepared horseradish mixed with sour cream) and applesauce. It can be labor intensive for a quick weeknight dinner but make enough so you have leftovers and you’ll thank yourself later.
Serving Suggestions is a recurring article that will be posted periodically during the CSA season featuring photos, tips and recipes. Content is provided by Jessica, Shana and Bob. If you would like to submit your own photos or recipes, please email Bob at robertfcowper@gmail.com. To read through previous Serving Suggestions articles, click here for an archive. You can also use the handy search feature at the top of the right hand menu bar to search for the name of a particular ingredient you need help using.
Update & Share: 9/3/19
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Today’s share will include: beets, kale, tomatoes, red skin potatoes, red onions, sweet corn, choice of cucumber or zucchini, and beans.
From Ginger of Treelicious Orchards:
We have packed our peaches, apples and plums for this week. I like the mixture and color of the fruits in a fruit bowl. The share includes a pint of green gage plums – sweet green plum the size of a sugar plum and just as sweet, and then a bag of almost 4 lbs of yellow peaches and our first gala apples. Gala is the first hard sweet apple of the season. The plums are $5/pint and these apples and peaches are $3/lb. I added either a nectarine or white peach to each bag too….enjoy the delicious tastes of late summer fruit.
At the orchard we are starting to pick the first honey crisp apples and Asian pears along with the galas and yellow peaches. Please visit us for pick your own at the farm! We are hosting a harvest festival on Saturday, September 27th including food, apple picking, live music and craft vendors. Our annual Apple Festival is slated for Sunday , October 13th. Please visit us for a day in the country on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 to 5 or for an event at the farm. Our mission is to provide an opportunity for families to visit a real farm operated by our family.
One note – many thanks to those who participated in the bulk peach opportunity – we will have plenty of peaches through next week. Please let me know if you need bulk peaches for jam, freezing, eating, etc.
Looking forward to next week, I will include peaches in the share next week too along with apples. Overall our Bosc pear crop is smaller compared to last year – this is the off year in the biennial world of pears. Asian pears will arrive soon in the share as well as Bartlett pears….just not as many Bosc pears this year.
