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Elephant Garlic

2016 CSA Spring June 18th Tomatoes

2016 CSA Spring June 18th Yukon Gold Elephant Garlic

New Potatoes Yukon Gold and Elephant Garlic This week. Tomatoes are back.

• Kale
• Field Arugula
• Mixed Field Greens
• Tarragon
• Poultry Blend
• Spring Onions
• Elephant Garlic
• Oregano
• Dill
• Flat Parsley
• Cilantro
• Gold Zucchini
• New Potatoes
• Tomatoes

 

Tomatoes! this week in your CSA share.

Famous Flavor Tomatoes

Famous Flavor Tomatoes

And kale this week for an opportunity to make some kale chips if you like! Besides the greens for salads or tossing into scrambled eggs, there are many flavor combinations available with your herbs and fresh vegetables. Dill-y potatoes, as a hot side or cold potato salad. Or maybe you would like to try it with tarragon this week. The onion, elephant garlic, oregano and flat parsley would work well together in the pan with the gold zucchini or pre-boiled potatoes. Take the combo south in flavor and add chopped tomato

Elephant Garlic

Elephant Garlic

and cilantro just at the end. You do not have to eat meat to appreciate the flavor grouping of the Poultry Blend, although it certainly works great to infuse meat and veggie roasts; when baking a chicken, the herbs go inside whole and a few selections are chopped into the veggie mix. The herbs infuse the meat nicely without extra prep. This works great in the Crock Pot, too. The herbs can be left whole and removed after cooking; parsley is chopped up regardless, as it is more difficult to remove. For storage of tomatoes, do not refrigerate and set separately to slow collective ripening. For the potatoes and zucchini, we refrigerate. Many folks are used to using a dry, dark pantry to keep potatoes, but these are new potatoes and are not sprayed like store bought kinds are to toughen the skin. Since these are a bit more tender, we keep them cold which slows processes of exchange down and helps keep them nutritious. To your health and pleasure!

2016 CSA Spring Jun 11

2016 CSA Spring June 11th

2016 CSA Spring June 11th

  • Chard
  • Field Arugula
  • Mixed Field Greens
  • Chives
  • Mint
  • Spring Onions
  • Green garlic
  • Oregano
  • Dill
  • Flat Parsley
  • Cilantro
  • Yellow Squash
  • New Potatoes

2016 CSA Spring Jun 11: Welcome to our newest CSA members! Michael Clark has been farming in central Virginia since 1975 – ( 40 years), working with both field grown and greenhouse grown herbs and vegetables. Although he has an Engineering degree from UVA and has worked at GE, Sperry Marine, Nimbus Records, and Avcomm, Mike farms fulltime now. His love for the earth and nature and his vision of a looming collapse of the corporate and financial security that the previous generation was so accustomed to, drove him to decide to leave industry and farm full time beginning in 1990. He has faithfully been a vendor at the Charlottesville City Market for more than 30 years, rain or shine or wind or snow. His farm has won the “Chesapeake Bay Friendly” Clean Water Award from the Governor. His produce and culinary specialties have been served to dignitaries and film stars, making it to the table of the President of the United States and winning awards for Chefs as far away as Europe. Besides the technical nature of his work, his experience ranges from eggs, pesto, jellies and jams to distillation of essential oils and hydrosols from the high quality botanicals produced. Mike worked with The VABF Organic Certification Committee and was a participant in the creation of the original language that brought organic certification to Virginia in 1990. He is the host of “Meet The Farmer TV” at watch.MeetTheFarmer.tv on local cable and Free Speech TV satellite nationwide.

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June 4 CSA 2016

2016 CSA Spring June 4th Broccoli Potatoes

2016 CSA Spring June 4th Broccoli Potatoes

  • Spinach
  • Field Arugula
  • Mixed Field Greens
  • Peppermint
  • Spearmint
  • Spring Onions
  • Green garlic
  • Oregano
  • Dill
  • Lemon Verbena
  • Cilantro
  • Thai Basil
  • Yellow Squash
  • New Potatoes
  • Broccoli

 

2016 CSA Spring June 4th Broccoli and Potatoes:  This week’s CSA includes freshly dug new potatoes, a wonderful yellow squash and some broccoli. Be sure to see one of us at the market for the broccoli as it was picked for you after our cut list was posted for CSA harvest; we wanted to be sure you got to try some as soon as we saw it! The yellow squash is a favorite of ours sautéed in the cast iron skillet with butter or olive oil. It goes well with the addition of your green garlic and spring onions. We like to chop the onion and garlic into the skillet and simmer a bit before the addition of the sliced squash. The garlic this week is beginning to get firm in the center with development of a stronger stem. When using, cut the bulb down the center and remove the white stalk from the middle. When using the spring onions, be aware that most of the plant can be used, not just the bottom bulb. We include cuts of the green tops and compost any cuts that are too tough. Simmer your onion and garlic in the heated pan for about 5 minutes before adding your squash, then cook the squash until tender. Can be served hot as a side dish or utilized in a stir-fry, casserole or soup. Toss with scrambled egg for a nice twist on breakfast.

Now these potatoes!

new potatoes

new potatoes

What flavor…these potatoes are tasty! We like to boil them up until they are tender when pierced with a fork and then eat them quickly, with butter, salt and pepper…the leftovers are kept for other dishes, like the “smash and dash” which are home-style hash browns. Keeping the skins and smashing the potatoes, they are added to skillet fried onions and spices and cooked until toasted. I like my hash browns a little crispy so they are cooked in a cast iron and then finished under the broiler for nice crunchy edges.

Don’t forget your broccoli!

 Broccoli

Broccoli

To your health and pleasure!