This Week's Denison Farm CSA Share

Dear CSA Members,

A wonderful piece from Andrea Bemis, author of Dishing Up The Dirt. Enjoy!!

Napa Cabbage and Kohlrabi

“The inspiration for this meal was easy. I was overtired, hot and hunched over weeding hundreds of kohlrabi plants. I find that when I’m the most miserable at the farm I come up with the best recipes. It’s crazy, but I’m pretty sure 75 precent of the recipes on this blog were born out of heat exhaustion and delirium. Go figure!

If you aren’t familiar with kohlrabi it’s a member of the brassica family. It has a mild broccoli flavor with the consistency of an apple (in my opinion). It tastes great raw as well as cooked. The greens are edible too but they take a while to sauté. Since I wasn’t in a cooking mood I saved the greens so we could toss them into an egg scrambled for later. This salad was definitely a highlight to our afternoon after the temperatures almost reached 100 degrees at Tumbleweed Farm.

A few people have asked if we take afternoons off when the heat is too much to handle. The answer is no. Unfortunately, this time of the year the farm is extremely demanding and we cannot afford to neglect Tumbleweed during the heat of the day. Moving irrigation around has become a part time job. And when we aren’t doing that we are busy keeping up with our seeding schedule and daily chores.

With all of that being said, we are really good about taking evenings off to relax and eat dinner together and doing absolutely nothing for at least an hour.We always have to go back out to the fields before bedtime so we can put the chickens in, close the greenhouses, and turn off irrigation. It’s not bad though. Once the sun starts setting our spirits are high again. There is nothing better than knowing we get to go to bed and start from scratch the next day. I’m sure you all can relate. A new day is always full of promise!”

Enjoy your share this week – Justine

Just a Few Notes:

• Remember to take a photo of the list to bring home with you for when you unpack your weekly share!
• Please take one box from the top of one of the stacks and check your name off on the sign-in clipboard. The boxes (eggs and fruit as well) will all be the same and will not be labeled.
• Egg and fruit shares are only for those that purchased those shares with their order.
• The fruit share will begin later in the season, and those members will get an email with updates at that time.
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• Please have a neighbor or friend pick up your share if you cannot.
• Please be responsible for your payments/installments.
• Please return and flatten the boxes and leave in a neat pile from week to week.
• Sparkling Meadow egg cartons can be returned each week.
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>> View this week’s newsletter, with recipes. <<

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This week in your CSA box, you will most likely find:

• Bok Choi
• Garlic Scapes
• Head Lettuce
• Napa Cabbage
• Kohlrabi
• Parsley
• And a few more items that have yet to be harvested!