Selecting the best corn

You do not need to pull back the husk on corn to find a good ear of corn. To select a nice ear, simply follow these tips: 1. Look for bright green husks that are a little shiny. 2. Look for soft golden silky tassels at the end of the ear. 3. Squeeze the end…

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Summer Share 2014 – Week 13

Summer Newsletter Week 13 Dear Robert,   We are super excited to announce our Vegan Popup Dinner registration is open! Our chef for the evening is Anna Harouvis of Anna In The Raw and the Good to Go Cafe. Eating vegan and eating raw have never tasted so good!  We will experience a variety of culinary…

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Summer Share 2015 – Week 12

Summer Newsletter Week 12 Dear Robert, We are just past the halfway point of the summer season. With all this cool weather, it hardly seems like we have even had a summer!  It seems crazy, but we will open up registration for the upcoming winter season by the end of the week.  Dates, times and locations…

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Parker’s Take on Dragon Tongue Beans

Consider using Dragon Tongue Beans as shelling beans. Recently when I was doing a cooking demonstration at the Downtown Farmers Market I spoke with a couple of people from Peru. They were very interested in the Dragon Tongue beans, surprised that I was blanching the beans and using the pods as well as the beans.…

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Summer Share 2014 – Week 11

This week, you will receive either slicing tomatoes or heirlooms (pictured below).  If you get heirlooms, be advised that they may look pretty ugly, but they taste amazing!  You will either get blueberries or blackberries depending on what you got last week. The squash will be 2 of any number of summer squash-zucchini, ishtar, patty…

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Summer Share 2014 – Week 10

Some routes will see substitutions for corn due to rain. Some routes will receive blackberries and others will receive blueberries. Small Omnivore   Small Vegetarian/Vegan   Large Omnivore   Large Vegetarian

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