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Cooking with Pumpkin

Try using any variety of Sweet or Pie pumpkins for a ton of iron, fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C and antioxidants! It’s also totally delicious, and easy to cook with. Make your own from-scratch pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin butter, etc. Slice the pumpkin in half (creating two symmetrical halves, except for the stem) and scoop…

Summer Share 2010 – Week 22

Small CSA Contents: – 1 lb Italian Sausage – 4 oz chevre, goat cheese – 20 oz loaf pumpkin bread – 1 lb pumpkin sage linguini – 1 bag honey puffed spelt or 1 head cauliflower (Tremont) – 1 celery root or 1 large turnip – 1 bunch mustard greens Vegetarian and Vegan Substitutes: –…

Summer Share 2010 – Week 20

Small CSA Contents: – ½ gallon concord grape juice – 4 lb sweet potatoes – 1 bunch carrots – 1 lb “Maple Crunch” – 2 Red Bell Peppers – 2 Eggplant – 2 lbs tomatoes – Quarter peck Honeycrisp apples Vegan Substitutes: (for maple crunch) – Green leaf lettuce – Candy cane striped beets –…

Making Apple Sauce and Apple Butter

Don’t ever throw out any apples that are getting old in your refrigerator, may be bruised, or you just don’t have the appetite to eat. Preserve them by turning them into apple sauce or apple butter. Apple sauce is very simple. Simply peel and core your apples. Add them to a heavy bottomed stock pock with about a cup of water, depending on…

Summer Share 2010 – Week 19

Small CSA Contents: – 1 head savoy cabbage – 1 sixteen‐ounce bag Mrs Miller’s noodles – 2 ct yellow squash – 1 cucumber – 2 ct butternut squash – 1 lb green beans – 1 piece brie – 1 head green leaf lettuce – 1.5 lb rolled organic oats – 1 dozen eggs or 1…

Summer Share 2010- Week 18

Small CSA Contents: – 1 red watermelon – 2 large eggplant – 1 bunch green swiss chard – 2 zucchini – ½ lb German white porcelain garlic – 1 bunch green onions – 1 half gallon milk – 2 slicing tomatoes – 3 ct poblano peppers – 6 ears super sweet corn – 1 dozen…

Summer Share 2010- Week 17

Small CSA Contents: – 1 lb crushed red pepper pasta – 2 lbs salted butter roll – 1 bunch Chioggia beets or carrots – 2 ct cubannelle peppers – 2 ct longhorn peppers – 2 lb peaches or Jonathon apples – 2 lb Bartlett pears or Gala apples – 1 quarter peck Cardinal apples –…

Biodiversity

This weekend on the farm tour, we’ll be visiting producers and learning about their production methods. One of the organic production methods is called “biodiversity.” Biodiversity can be applied to both produce production and animal production, or a mixture. It’s a rather broad term that essential means that a healthy ecosystem is created using complimentary plants, animals, and processes that help build fertile,…

Summer Share 2010 – Week 16

Small CSA Contents: – 1 whole pasture raised organic chicken – 2 sweet potatoes – 1 lb fresh shallots – 1 lb mixed table grapes – 1 head red cabbage – 1 head broccoli – 2 bi‐color summer squash Vegetarian and Vegan Substitutes: – 1 bunch swiss chard – 4 ct pablano peppers – 4…

Summer Share 2010 – Week 15

Here are the Week 15 CSA contents. This week’s bag has a slight “picnic theme” twist and is designed for quick, easy packing to get you guys in and out for the holiday weekend! In the TRADITIONAL SMALL BAG: -1 lb 100% grassfed, organic ground beef (extra will be available for sale at the trucks) -6 ears…