Fall CSA #5 Oct 4
Hi everybody!
It has been, so far..., an incredibly wonderful Fall for us as I hope yours is too! We have slowly started the outdoor cleanup by harvesting the last of many crops and uprooting the plants. It looks so messy at this time with brown and dying plants, toppled over Sunflower Giants and weeds that got the best of us. A lot of time and effort goes into growing food, more than many people realize. There is the obvious planting-weeding-watering-harvesting and washing but some of the big jobs are seeding and then potting up, preparing beds and then cleaning it all up!
This weeks baskets still say summer but definitely summers end...end of tomatoes, zucchini's, eggplants and beans.
In your baskets:
-A summer's end Eggplant, zucchini, beans, peppers bag
-Tomatoes
-A bag of Ground Cherries and a few purple tomatillos
-A Chez Nous Salad Mix
-Collards
-Pea Shoots
-Arugula
-Garlic
The salad mix has quite a winter look to it this week. It contains many different leaves such ad turnip greens, spinach, arugula, mustard's. We had many people ask about the lemony flavor of a recent mix- it was lemon basil -lots of it!
Thanks and have a great week!
Hi everybody!
It has been, so far..., an incredibly wonderful Fall for us as I hope yours is too! We have slowly started the outdoor cleanup by harvesting the last of many crops and uprooting the plants. It looks so messy at this time with brown and dying plants, toppled over Sunflower Giants and weeds that got the best of us. A lot of time and effort goes into growing food, more than many people realize. There is the obvious planting-weeding-watering-harvesting and washing but some of the big jobs are seeding and then potting up, preparing beds and then cleaning it all up!
This weeks baskets still say summer but definitely summers end...end of tomatoes, zucchini's, eggplants and beans.
In your baskets:
-A summer's end Eggplant, zucchini, beans, peppers bag
-Tomatoes
-A bag of Ground Cherries and a few purple tomatillos
-A Chez Nous Salad Mix
-Collards
-Pea Shoots
-Arugula
-Garlic
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| Absolutely gorgeous collard leaves in your baskets this week! |
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| Collards in their simplest form are wonderful cooked in oil and garlic but also make awesome wraps cooked or raw. Try googling collard wraps and you will be greeted with many healthy wraps full of items such as hummous and grated carrots or beets, sprouts, peppers etc....they keep well and are quite delicious! |
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| Ground cherries - remove from paper husk and rinse they have a unique flavor that some compare to cantaloupe. The big purple ones are Tomatillos and they have more of a Kiwi flavor. |
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| Arugula also called rocket has a peppery kick. It is awesome added to pizza or pasta last minute or upon serving depending on if you want it to wilt or not. |
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| Pea shoots are usually added to our Chez Nous Mix but we kept it out this week and offered it as it is. Great in wraps, sandwiched or in a salad! |
Thanks and have a great week!
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