20. July 2011 by admin.

Heirloom Tomato Tasting at The Common Market

This Saturday July 23, 11:30am-2:00pm at The Common Market in Frederick. See their website for directions. Meet me there and sample some great local food! Heirloom tomatoes, mozzarella, ice cream, sauces, juices and jams. All local items at The Common Market will be 10% off!~

Here is the flyer with more information about the different tastings happening in the store on Saturday:

July 23 CM demo

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7. July 2011 by admin.

Harvest #7, July 8, 2011

OK, we have a lot of different items all ready for harvest for this
week. We’ll just lay em out for you and let you choose. Its like a
farmer’s market here at House in the Woods and you get to choose from
all the beautiful options. If you want more than 8 items, extra items
are available for $3.50, so you can’t lose.
Select 8 from the following items for this Friday:

Fresh garlic (We’ll offer the seconds/splits for a few weeks, use it
soon, or put peeled cloves in a jar with olive oil in the frig; the
beauties are curing, for later CSA weeks and for sale by the pound next
month)

Beets! We MUST pull the beets!

Heirloom tomatoes (we don’t know what kind of quantities we have yet, but they are coming. We’ll see!)

fennel, try it sliced thin on the grill. The last week of fennel.

jalapeno peppers

Green peppers

Italian eggplant including specialty Italian called Beatrice (its pink!)

Japanese eggplant

Sweet or Thai basil (I made pesto with Thai basil and I LOVE it. Its a richer taste, almost spicey in a very good way)

scallions (almost gone)

lettuce (a new smaller batch of lettuce, red and romaine)

garlic scapes (if there is still interest in scapes, we still have some…)

cabbage

chard (oh sweet healthy endlessly available chard)

zucchini

bok choy maybe

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7. July 2011 by admin.

Harvest #7, July 8, 2011

OK, we have a lot of different items all ready for harvest for this week. We’ll just lay em out for you and let you choose. Its like a farmer’s market here at House in the Woods and you get to choose from all the beautiful options. If you want more than 8 items, extra items are available for $3.50, so you can’t lose.
Select 8 from the following items for this Friday:

Fresh garlic (We’ll offer the seconds/splits for a few weeks, use it soon, or put peeled cloves in a jar with olive oil in the frig; the beauties are curing, for later CSA weeks and for sale by the pound next month)

Beets! We MUST pull the beets!

Heirloom tomatoes (we don’t know what kind of quantities we have yet, but they are coming. We’ll see!)

fennel, try it sliced thin on the grill. The last week of fennel.

jalapeno peppers

Green peppers

Italian eggplant including specialty Italian called Beatrice (its pink!)

Japanese eggplant

Sweet or Thai basil (I made pesto with Thai basil and I LOVE it. Its a richer taste, almost spicey in a very good way)

scallions (almost gone)

lettuce (a new smaller batch of lettuce, red and romaine)

garlic scapes (if there is still interest in scapes, we still have some…)

cabbage

chard (oh sweet healthy endlessly available chard)

zucchini

bok choy maybe

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3. July 2011 by admin.

Honey, what do you want from the farm this week?

Cellular meets CSA…

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2. July 2011 by admin.

First tomato of the season, a Cherokee Purple. CSA members each received a precious ONE tomato, a first taste of what’s to come very soon. Not bad for the first day of July! (Note to non-gardeners: this is early for tomatoes…). Yes, I’ll admit it with full disclosure for fairness in the competitive world of the “first ripe tomato race”: these were grown in our hoophouse, a little head start to the season.

Here a happy little one gobbles hers up like an apple. I love that.

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30. June 2011 by admin.

 Looks like we’ll have beautiful bok choy (pac choi) for tomorrow’s harvest too, so here’s a recipe for a nice summer salad featuring three items from our harvest.

Asian Slaw—simple and delicious! (gluten free, dairy free!)

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30. June 2011 by admin.

Harvest #6, July 1, 2011

Select 8 from the following items for this Friday:

Fresh garlic and a sample of tomatoes to come (1 tomato today)!! (We’ll offer the seconds/splits this week and save the good stuff for curing, ready soon.)

bok choy

fennel, try it sliced thin on the grill

jalapeno peppers

Green peppers

Italian eggplant including specialty Italian called Beatrice (its pink!)

Sweet basil

Thai basil (seek out a fun recipe online for this! I’ll see about gathering some too)

scallions (almost gone)

last week of lettuce (lettuce bolts in the heat of summer and gets bitter)

last week of garlic scapes

cabbage

chard (oh sweet healthy endlessly available chard)

zucchini

There are some first harvests and some crop wrap-ups in this week, as we transition to some of the summer crops. Enjoy!

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23. June 2011 by admin.

Harvest List for Week 5, June 24, 2011

Select 8 from the following: (can’t decide? additional items available for $3.50)

zucchini

japanese eggplant

green peppers

garlic scapes (last of them)

chard

kale

scallions

romaine lettuce (have you made Caesar Salad yet?)

maybe some red leaf too

japanese white turnips

cabbage

maybe beets this week!

sweet basil

thai basil

jalapeno peppers

Since summer crops are just getting started, some of these offerings might be light in quantity at the start. Please be flexible if we are out of something when you arrive, there will be plenty of other items to choose from. You can ask if “there’s more in the back” or make a different choice for this week.

For the record, Week #4 offerings were as follows:

zucchini

japanese eggplant, just a few

green peppers

garlic scapes

chard

kale

scallions

romaine lettuce

some red leaf too

japanese white turnips

cabbage

sweet basil

thai basil

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9. June 2011 by admin.

Anticipated Harvest List for Friday June 10–CSA members will select 8 from the following:

1) A new batch of lettuce, either romaine or a new variety of red leaf lettuce

2) A second type of lettuce to choose from, another leaf lettuce

3) bok choi

4) kohlrabi

5) turnips

6) scallions (the spring onions are done, these are delicate scallions)

7) garlic scapes (get them while they are here!)

kale

9) chard, Red Russian or maybe Perpetual Spinach (a spinach-y variety of chard)

10) cabbage

plus U-Pick Herb Garden (ready now: sorrel, sage, chives, a little oregano, some chamomile flowers, what else..)

Coming Soon: zucchini are starting! Definitely next week, maybe a taste this week.

U-Pick Zinnias are beginning to blossom! A beautiful row. They will be U-Pick when there are enough of them.

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4. June 2011 by admin.

 Happy people at House in the Woods Harvest Day

CSA members selected 8 of the following harvested items this week, plus some treats from the u-pick herb garden:

red leaf lettuce
kohlrabi
scallions/spring onions
kale
chard
sweet japanese turnips
arugula
bok choi
garlic scapes
cabbage

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