19. July 2010 by admin.

 Aaaah, the garlic is curing. Its all bundled and hanging in the barn to air and dry.

Here’s Donna helping to hang the garlic. I like that she wore overalls for the occasion.

Here’s what its like to eat your lunch in the garlic barn:

Sneak preview

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15. July 2010 by admin.

Here’s two new CSA-inspired blogs from members of the House in the Woods CSA community!

http://csagourmet.blogspot.com/

Check out CSA Gourmet blog, the creation of House in the Woods CSA member, Elizabeth DeRose! Its a great new resource for local, seasonal, fresh from the CSA share recipes and ideas. And she’ll answer all your cooking questions, so comment on her blog and ask away.

A Simple Thought

And another CSA-inspired blog, A Simple Thought, by our summer intern, Lisa Curcuruto. Check it out, ask her questions about her experiences on the farm, and enjoy the good read. I really want to try out her kale recipe. And I like that new members can relate to her entries, because this summer is a first-time farm experience for Lisa.

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1. July 2010 by admin.

Beautiful wonderful delectible healing garlic. I could go on.

I even like how it plants. You plant it in the fall (not in the busy spring planting season) and harvest “between solstice and fourth of July” (in the words of my farmer friend Eric from Country Pleasures Farm). Oh my, how we have harvested. Thank goodness Phil likes to think outside the box and used his plow to dig under the garlic row. We used to pitchfork every bulb! And stab some. He only sliced a few with the plow. After the row is plowed, its collecting and bringing to the barn in the pickup truck. Pitchforks, lay still. Saved Phil’s back and tons of time. The barn chairs are full of garlic bundles instead of concert-goers. Phil says the bundles are not watching a concert, they are awaiting trial. Who shall be hung (in the barn to cure) and buried in the fall? Who shall be eaten alive by CSA members and Common Market shoppers? But I prefer the vision of a spicy concert. Before I send you a photo of the garlic harvest, I need to share the scape photos I took last month.

OK, I love garlic scapes too. They are a fun and loopy byproduct of the garlic plant. Its the seed pod, and since you don’t even grow garlic from its seed (you plant its cloves from the bulb), you can snap off these seed pods. i love that they are edible. They have a garlicy juice that stays on my hands for a day or two. Chop em up and scapes are wonderful in stir-fries or roasted or baked.

Here are some scape models:

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