Hello CSA members!
Well we are off again! We didn’t think we would pull it off for this week but we have! We are glad to be back on a two week schedule as it gives us 1 week off in between to focus on the season’s farm set-up.
We hope you are ready to reconnect with some old favorites and or embark on an adventure of new foods! Our goal is to provide you with an experience similar to having your own garden. We look forward to offering you all sorts of unique and fresh food items – many you would never see in a grocery store. You’ll get to experience crops in all their forms from thinnings, to baby, to mature and even flowering. If it’s in your basket-it’s edible!
This season, not all CSA newsletters will be posted on the blog, we have opted to keep our full and personalized newsletters to print outs and emails. The blog will try to focus on farm happenings and developments
Pick up times are as follows until further notice:
Wed on Farm pick-up can be picked up any time after 12
Niagara Falls pick-up between 2- 6
Saturday on farm after 9 (however this week will be ready Friday after 4 since Saturday is our son’s birthday)
In your basket today you will find:
1 bag of lettuce mix (L on bag)
1 bag of mild greens (M on bag)
1 bag of spicy mix (S on bag)
1 bag with some Tokyo and some Kale
1 bag of Sunflower Greens
1 small bunch of green garlic
Here’s some extra info on some of your items:
Sunflower Sprouts -new this season and might I say yummy! These are so easy to sneak in everywhere! Salads- as a topping to dishes- juicing- or ever so lightly wilted in a pan with a touch of butter and salt!
Green Garlic- is tender young immature garlic it can be used in any recipe in place of regular garlic, leeks or scallions and can be used raw or cooked.
Greens Spring means lots of greens! All of the greens you are receiving are great in salads. In fact, most of them you will see in our ever changing, with the season’s, salad mix. You will notice that many greens have little broccoli like spears in them. These are the flowers signaling that the plant will soon be going to seed. They are delicious!
Mustard Greens:
Great raw or lightly cooked. Add mustard flavor to your sandwich! Great with eggs in salads. The spicy ones have a rapini like flavor. They lose some of their pungency when lightly sautéed. We cook many of our greens in a pan with a little water until tender, putting a lid on also steams. Add just enough water , it’s easier to keep adding a little water than draining the leftovers. As soon as it’s cooked you can add seasonings like butter, olive oil, soy sauce etc..
Red Giant ( on left found in Spicy Bag), Ho-Mi-Zi a.k.a as Dragon’s Tongue (found in Mild Greens bag)
Green Wave Mustard (left found in Spicy Mix) Kate’s Mustard (found in Mild Mix)
Tatsoi and Yukina Savoy ( the wrinkly one) both these are so versatile delicious raw or cooked we often include this in our salad mix
Mache:
Delicious little rosettes! Use in salads like spinach and not usually cooked. This amazing little green is so hardy. Planted in the fall starts growing and finishes growing in the spring!
Mache ready to be washed
Mizuna (green) and Ruby Streaks Red ( can be cooked or eaten raw you will find this in your salad mix this week.)
Red Komatsuna ( can be cooked or eaten raw you will find this in your salad mix this week.)
Tokyo Bekana good with everything! People often think it is lettuce and we usually use it as lettuce in our mixes. Isn’t spicy at all even at full size like you are getting today.
In with the Tokyo Bekana you will find some Kale.
Enjoy!
Rich and Shirley
Chez Nous Farms
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