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Winter Share 2012-13- Week 10

Pork chops, frozen green beans, frozen strawberries, oats, and more This week we continue to dive into our frozen stash. The jewel this week is frozen strawberries from Maurer’s Fruit Farm. These will pair very nicely in a smoothie with some delicious Velvet View Yogurt or as a sauce to drizzle over pork chops, or…

Winter Share 2012-13 – Week 9

Freedom Rangers, Peas, Dragon-tongue Beans, Carrots, Rhutabagas, Potatoes, and more This week’s special ingredient is something that we are very excited to offer. It is a heritage breed chicken called a Freedom Ranger. Our usual chicken, the Cornish Cross, is the typical commercial meat bird. It has more white meat and large breasts. The genetics…

Healthy Harvest Notes

This is another letter from one of our farmers in Middlefield- the Healthy Harvester. You may have met him at a Customer Appreciation BBQ I did a very poor job of writing anything last year, quite poor indeed. Seems it always got pushed off until some “not so busy” rainy day in the indefinite future. Never…

A Valentine’s Coffee Cupping: Event with Rising Star and Mitchell’s Ice Cream

A Valentine’s Coffee Cupping: Artisan Coffee and Homemade Ice Creams Why settle for waxy, flavorless chocolate hearts and kisses for your sweetie this Valentine’s Day when you can impress him/her with a perfectly brewed cup of coffee paired with an icy chocolate confection? Join us for a very special collaboration between Fresh Fork Market,…

Things to Not Throw Out

I hate to throw anything away. Over the summer, my crock pot is on nearly every day, turning split tomatoes into pasta sauce, tomato paste, or simmering sauces. I pickled anything I could, some with better results than others (pickled snow peas showed up in my Bloody Mary cocktails last week-yum). Here are some things to use up rather…

Winter Share 2012-13 – Week 3

This week is both a Winter CSA delivery and the Thanksgiving turkey/package delivery. Please double check the pickup days and times. I have tried to plan the Week 3 Winter CSA accordingly, being that you just picked up week 2 a few days ago and Thanksgiving is around the corner…and no one needs to…

Winter Share 2012-13 – Week 1

I’m going to be on the radio Friday, again on Saturday, and on TV on Monday. Lots of Fresh Fork out there! Mostly all about our Thanksgiving packages, which are selling fast. Oh, and if you are interested in coming to tonight’s beer dinner, we had a few last minute cancelations. I have about 5…

Winter Weather and Bag Planning

This wet weather is great…no kidding! I’m excited about this wet weather. It really is awful to work in, but it buys us time. The alternative is a hard, killing frost. We’ve had a few frosts, but not the worst damage. I’ll explain below. This week is a full moon. But I doubt you’ll see it.…

Summer Share 2012 – Week 21

New cheese, rutabagas, spelt flour and rosemary linguini, and more I’m very excited about the cheese in this week’s bag. One of my producers, Aden Keim, had sprung a surprise on me last spring when he told me that he was finishing building a goat creamery. I was shocked because I had figured he might…

How Parker prepares Brussels sprouts

I’m sure we will have Brussels sprouts from time to time in the next couple of months although they are a little early this year due to the intense heat of this summer. The sprouts can be prepared in a great variety of ways from simple to complex. Always begin by trimming the bottoms and…