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1st Box

Maeve harvesting the carrots.

Beautiful Box #1 Enjoy!!!!

What is in your box

Big!!!  jumbo head of crisp romaine lettuce.  Use the large leaves as your “bread” in sandwiches.

Large Bag of “Space”  Spinach

Radish Assortment.  Combination of cylindrical French Breakfast, round red Rover, and a few brown russets  (they look like little potatoes) called Ziata

Carrots.  2 varieties.  Short Atlas and long Mokum.  What a treat!  We started these in early Feb. as an experiment and they are so flavorful.

Pac Choi Assortment.  A nice combination of several different beauties.  Great in stir fries or sauté.

Maeve’s favorite snack right now. French Blue and Crimson Lentils with Black Garbanzos.  We eat them like candy around here as a quick snack or scatter on our salads, pasta or stir fry if they last that long….!

We will have the “extra” or trade box again this year.  Feel free to take anything you would like from this area.  It may include some of the same items from the weekly box selection or something different that we just didn’t have enough of to offer in every box.  Also, if there is an item in your box that you know your family will not eat leave it here for someone else to take.  This week we have some extra Romaine as will as a few heads of butter crunch that did not bolt early in the heat.

I will post a few recipes here on the blog.  I do suggest looking on line too….many people are publishing blogs all about CSA cooking. One good one I like is CSA gourmet. When I am better at that whole cut and paste thing I will try and “link” a few of these sites for you.  Also, take a look at Pinterest.  Pretty Amazing!  I just typed in radish recipes and tons of interesting options are there.

Susan Holding thanks again so much for your help in getting this whole blog thing rolling for us!

weighing out the carrots for the boxes

the radishes all washed up and ready to be divided and bagged for the boxes

This is our covered “spring greens” and lettuce area. The uncovered hoops to the right is the area we just harvest the romaine lettuce for tomorrow and it is being prepped for another lettuce rotation.

spinach covered with shade cloth to cool it down a bit in the heat
The 3000+ onions and leeks I planted with Malachi Persche (thanks! Malachi) and Scott has keep weeded...

The 3000+ onions and leeks I planted with Malachi Persche (thanks malachi!!!!) and Scott has kept well weeded.

broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and my billion!!!! brussels sprouts all planted in reflective plastic mulch.

Thought it would be fun to show you a quick update in the garden…..

We had a great day harvesting and excited for the kick off to the CSA season tomorrow.  We are washed, prepped and ready. The cooler is full of great Spring produce.

We harvested some carrots that we planted on Feb. 3rd.   A big experiment that worked!  Anyway, Scott harvested this guy that we have named “the perfect male dancer”.

Scott harvested "the perfect male dancer" carrot.

What a surprise!

Amazing Weather

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2000+ sweet peas!

Just a quick reminder to all past CSA members that early sign up is due by Feb. 29th.  After this date we open up membership to the waiting list.

 

The greenhouse is prepped and all set up with a new potting station and new bench layout.  The heat has been turned on and seeds started.  Next week the onions, leeks, celery and celeriac will be seeded in as well.  I have this feeling of “here we go everyone!”

 Maeve Sorting all the seeds.......

Maeve is sorting all the seeds for us…………

I am “practicing” the blog posting so I am all set by the time our weekly boxes start and our newsletters can all be found here.

Scott and friends working on the shiitake project last Fall