CSA Newsletter, Week 14

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This Weeks Veggies

Beans

Beets or Carrots

Chard or Spinach

Cucumbers – Classic green slicing cucumbers.

Lettuce – Please choose two from an assortment of Bronze Mignonette, Butter Crunch, and  Savoy Cos.

Summer Squash – PLease choose three largish ones or four of the smaller.

Tomatoes – Gold Nugget,  Washington Red Cherries or Silvery Fir Tree Slicers

Italian Plums – Please take two or three.  They are great sliced up in salads.

Farm Life

We got a good start on building the compost pile this weekend. So far, it is about 2.5 feet tall and 30’ long. We used half of our “ingredients” of hay, horse manure, spoiled apples and your kitchen scraps. After the remaining half of the ingredients are layered on top we will begin monitoring the temperature of the pile to ensure that it meets organic certification requirements. We will also turn the pile at least three times to ensure that all of it is well composted. The end result will be enough compost to get us thru the first half of next year’s season.

Veggie of the Week

Did you know that beets can be microwaved? Try the recipe below for a simple beet and lettuce salad.

http://www.recipetips.com/recipe-cards/t–2606/microwave-roasted-beet-salad.asp.

And don’t forget to use the greens. The greens are actually the most nutritious part of the plant. They are very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol but are a good source of Protein, Folate, Pantothenic Acid, Phosphorus and Zinc, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol), Vitamin K, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Potassium, Copper and Manganese. Phew! All that nutrition packed in to one little beet top!

The following recipe for Halibut with Beets and Beet Greens looks fantastic. I love Halibut so I can’t wait to try it. How about you trying it too so that we can compare notes?

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/HALIBUT-WITH-ROASTED-BEETS-BEET-GREENS-AND-DILL-ORANGE-GREMOLATA-241608