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Archive for the Weekly CSA Harvests Category

Bok Choy feature

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!)

Ingredients

1 pac choi

1medium head green cabbage
1 medium head red cabbage
3 tablespoons sea salt
3 large carrots
1/4 cup minced scallions
1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds

Dressing:
2/3 cup unseasoned rice vinegar
1/4 cup light brown sugar, maple syrup or rice syrup
1 1/2 tablespoons dark-roasted sesame oil

Instructions

1. Discard the outer leaves of cabbages. Cut heads in quarters; remove and discard cores. Slice pac choi and cabbage thinly or shred in a food processor. Layer the pac choi and cabbage in a large bowl with the sea salt. Toss to distribute salt evenly and let cabbage sit for 1 hour to soften.

2. Meanwhile, peel the carrots and grate them into thin shreds.

3. Drain off any liquid produced by the cabbage and rinse the cabbage well in several changes of cold water to remove excess salt. Taste the cabbage; if it is still too salty, rinse it again.

4. Add carrots to the cabbage and mix well.

5. Whisk the rice vinegar, brown sugar and sesame oil together in a small bowl.

6. Pour the dressing over the cabbage and mix well. Let chill. Garnish with minced scallions and toasted sesame seeds before serving.

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Harvest #6–welcome, summer crops…

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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Harvest #5 (and #4)

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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Harvest List June 10–week 3

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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Harvest Happiness

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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First CSA Harvest

25. May 2010 by admin.

An exciting week at the farm, with our first CSA veggie pickups. Here are some highlights.

I think the bok choi won my prize for most beautiful offering in the share.

Yes! Real dirt on vegetables! Straight from the garden.

These Oasis white turnips are so sweet and mild. I like them best in a salad or thinly sliced and marinated in a dressing all by themselves.

Kohlrabi is the alien purple thing. Nobody comes into the CSA familiar with it, but kohlrabi is easy to make friends with. I like it best peeled and sliced raw, like carrots. I gave out samplesall weekend, so that nobody gets scared of the purple alien. Its docile.