Week 1

Hi All,


Week one is here and we begin a 23 week journey into the freshest organically grown food on the planet. I just tried a radish and wow...a nice little bit of hotness! I'm going to give the radishes one more week before they appear in your crates. This is what you will see in your crates this week:

Strawberries
Spicy Salad Mix (arugula, red mustard and green mustard greens)
Cress (I'm keeping that separate because it's a very unique taste and quite spicy, you may want to add just a little to salads)
Green Onions
Mild Salad Mix
Young Red Russian Kale
Spinach
Pac Choi (Bok Choi)

A lot of green stuff. I hope our systems are ready for all those vitamins and minerals!

I do have to say that I'm a little disappointed in the strawberries so far this year. They don't seem as sweet as they have been in past years and I think it may because there has been very little sun helping to produce the sugar for the fruit. Just a hunch, but that's the only thing different from years past.

We have subscribed to the United Harvest Newsletter that is designed for CSA members that includes a lot of recipes. I will include it with this update twice a month and will post it on our web site under recipes. Many of the recipes this week use ingredients that aren't quite ready, but you can hold on to them or go back to our web site to reference those things when they show up in your crates.

Also we have had a totally weird chicken experience here at the farm. A chicken that has been here for a year and a half dressed as a hen(female) has suddenly started to crow like a rooster(male). The comb(top of the head) and wattles(under the beak area) are a little larger than a regular hens, but is not really rooster looking. Further investigation will follow.

Speaking of chicken...we will take the chickens we grow for meat to the processor tomorrow morning and pick them up Thursday. We will keep them in the cooler for the weekend before moving them to the freezer. So if you are interested a whole 3.5 to 5 pound bird is $3.99 per pound. We can cut to your order as well, but I will have to know by tonight. The cost goes up with cutting and de-boning of course.

That's it for now. See you Wednesday!

Steve and Vicky