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Here is a greens recipe, from CSA member Veronica Sidhu (author of Menus and Memories from Punjab: Meals to Nourish Body and Soul), using paneer cheese rather than lentils. It is one most Americans are familiar with from Indian restaurant dishes. Recipe may be halved or frozen. Yields 8 servings (4 cups greens without cheese cubes). (more…)
Pesto is a great way to use the garlic scapes in our CSA shares! For ½ pound short pasta such as penne, add about 2 Tablespoons of pesto to cooked pasta and stir until pasta is well coated. You can also freeze your pesto for use later in the year – try freezing it in an ice cube tray to make small handy pesto portions. (more…)
A CSA member, Julia Egan, sent us the following easy recipe for those yummy summer squash we are now beginning to savor. You can’t get much simpler. (more…)
Happy winter everyone! It is time to register for the 2023 CSA season! Know your farmer. Know your food.
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. CSA members pre-pay for “shares” in a local organic farm at the beginning of the season in March when the farmer most needs the money. Then during the harvest from June through November, the farmer delivers a weekly assortment of vegetables, herbs, and some fruit.
100% of your food dollars go to the person who is growing it. You support sustainable, local agriculture and get freshly picked organic produce at reasonable prices. In addition, you know the farmer growing your vegetables and can visit the farm – establishing a personal connection with your food supply. (more…)
Hi Everyone, So, we have reached the end of the line for this season. I would say the finish line, but my crew and me still have several more weeks to finish out the season. There is still some garlic to be planted, the stock up shares to put together, and various root crops to harvest for storage through the winter and into next spring. And there are a myriad of other chores to be done, to put the farm to bed for the winter. As I mentioned last week, we are entering a very cold stretch of weather. We have been busy harvesting many of the crops that will be in the shares this week and in the stock-up before they are damaged. And we have been moving many of the crops in storage into the barn where they can be better protected from the cold nights ahead. (more…)
This is a delicious seasonal soup, served at Michael’s on the Hill restaurant in Waterbury, Vermont, close to Stowe. The recipe serves 6 but can easily be doubled and it freezes well. (more…)
This simple soup is equally good hot or cold. You can readily omit the potatoes for a lighter version. A small dollop of sour cream or crème fraiche before serving is a nice complement to the soup. The recipe serves 4-6. (more…)
Here’s a delicious recipe from the Simply Organic cookbook that combines onion and cabbage with precooked pork chops and a honey dijon sauce. Try it out! (more…)
Hi everyone, So, I guess we knew this balmy weather couldn’t last forever! We have two nights of frost coming up and then a brief warming before some truly frigid air rolls in over the weekend. We will be shifting gears from protecting the tender crops from a few hours of below freezing temperatures, to covering the cold tolerant crops to protect them from being damaged by temps in the mid-twenties. (more…)
Fennel, also known as sweet fennel or finocchio, originated in the Mediterranean and is popular in Italian and Scandinavian cooking. Closely related to parsley, carrots, dill and coriander, this aromatic vegetable is the swollen, immature stem of a large, feathery bush. The young stems of the plant overlap at the base to form a bulb with white-to-pale-green ribbed layers. Although the stalks are similar to celery both in their appearance and in their crunchy texture, all parts of the plant (bulb, stalks, and fronds) have a pleasantly sweet anise, or licorice-like flavor, and are edible. (more…)