We’ll have choices from the following veggies this week:
Lettuce, spinach, chard, kale, arugual, mizuna, pea shoots, bok choi, green onion, radish, turnip.
Many of these vegetables, like bok choi and radish and hakurie turnips will only be part of the CSA for the firs 3 weeks about. If you’re not sure with what do do with some vegetables we have some recipes on the website receipe sections. And here’ s anew one just send to us for the hakure turnips:
https://blog.farmtopeople.com/blogs/recipes-more/braised-hakurei-turnips-and-collard-greens
If you’re not familiar with bok choi – try a quick sautee with sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic and ginger. It’s so quick and tasty if you try it I gaurantee you’ll love it!
On the farm this week:
This week has been pretty much a repeat of last week, except colder and wetter. I just put away all my winter clothing last week and now I had to dig it all out again for today! Here’s Shola also wearing his full winter gear. Except he actually never takes it off. This could be anytime of the summer for all we know. I’ve been wanting to see what he wears in winter.
Last week we started uncovering our brassicas and was relived to find that most of them were still there, though there is one bed of brussel sprouts we will need to replant as all we could find was weeds. Here is a h half weeded field of cabbages and brussels sprouts.
Also, this year just like every year, many killdeer have laid their eggs in the field. The first year that kiildeer aid their eggs in the field I thought they’d never be back given how stressed out they were by us being in the field all the time, but this year they decided to host a kiildeer convention and there must be like 30 different nests and killdeer couples! Now we can’t work anywhere now without being swarmed by angry killdeer. But the eggs have now hatched and there are all these little babies running around.
Another interesting fact is that, every year for the last 10 years, the killdeer always lay the eggs in the debris of the same crop family. I thought it might be because they like fowl smells(get it?), but according to chat gpt, they like to lay their eggs in light coloured sticks. What crop family leaves a lot of light brown crop debris (it’s actually green when it’s alive) and smells like rotten eggs? Guess right and you will win the smelliest vegetable we have.
That’s it for this week. See you soon!
Jonathan, Sarah, Sandra, Morgan, Alyssa, Shola, Barb, Hanna,