Farm Where Life is Good:  CSA Produce Subscription Distribution -- Week 34

Your box for Week 34

Farm Where Life is Good

Produce Subscription (Week 34)

Well, we took away the field full of flowers from the various pollinators. Mean farmers! The front section is going from buckwheat (now all flail-mowed) into rye and vetch. Lots of nitrogen to fix and humus to make. Those two will sprout a bit, then go dormant thru the winter to come back strong for a spring cutting. Then we’ll put the field in heavy feeding produce…like peppers or potatoes or tomatillos or the like.

I spy the Dazs-le dog.

Oh, and we are officially out of boxes. So, if you have squirreled some away somewhere, please bring it/them back to the dropsite. We will need to go buy more if they don’t show back up this week. It gets spendy.

Your boxes will be in their respective drop site locations by 9am Wednesday. (Dropsite Location Details) Find the box with your name and have at it!

If you have any questions, please call Roger on his delivery phone 626 488 5437 (if before 10a) and the farm phone 715 426 7582 (if after 10am).

The rainbow continues in your boxes this week.

Tomato, cherry, saladette and slicer sampler Day by day they keep pinking up! Enjoy the new additions.

Pepper, sweet Some greens for a nice BBQ sauce. See below for my grandmother’s recipe…simple and love it!

Pepper, Feher Ozon paprika (immature) We included one of these young peppers to give you a sampling. They take forever to mature, so I start eating them early! They do wonders to a tofu scramble, I have to say.

Potato, Red Gold These are a new variety for us. Poor yield this year, but I do like the way they cook up.

Lettuce mix A little bit of mix to tide us over until the heads start coming along.

Cabbage, Tendersweet This cabbage is different, I have to say. “Tender” is indeed a good descriptor, and juicy too. Great for coleslaw, no waiting required, it serves up well right after preparation.

Beans, wax The last of the beans for awhile; the hot and dry weather came at a bad time in their maturation; I hope they are tender enough…

Squash, zephyr How about some minestrone to use up those squash?

Zucchini Tossed in another 12" fella for some zucchini baking; you have got to try the zucchini brownies …I am in love! (I didn’t frost them…and I made them with ½ maple syrup and heavy on the cocoa powder. Holy cow they are moist and delicious!) Trust me…double the recipe!

Zucchini, baby striped A couple for a pizza-boat lunchbox make-ahead.

Cucumber, slicers Both “Corinto (bumpy)” and “Diva (smooth)” varieties…anyone have a preference?

Cucumber, lunchbox Try this hummus for a personal cucumber dipper… Ultimate Hummus

Cucumber, Little Potato, True Lemon, Crystal Apple and/or Mini-white They sure do all taste different, don’t they. I think I like the mini-whites the best, with apple coming in second. What are your favorites?

Onions, white and Walla walla More of the same; the remaining harvest is coming out of the field this week.

Garlic, Music variety “Sweet, pungent flavor” they say…

Oregano A fresh pasta sauce is in the offing this week, I bet.

Thyme Great addition to scalloped potatoes or tomato soup.

Recipes for your consideration

My favorite over rice or mashed potatoes, from my grandmother’s kitchen. Tangy, rich flavor; easy to toss together.¬

Nana’s Western Style Barbeque Wheatmeat

1 Tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
1 green pepper, thinly sliced
2 Tbsp cider vinegar
2 Tbsp veggie Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp red pepper, ground (or minced fresh hot pepper)
1 tsp black pepper, ground
2 tsp ground chili pepper
1 tsp paprika
3/4 cup catsup/ketchup, yours or Heinz
3/4 cup water
1 lb seitan/ “wheat meat” chicken-style

Combine all ingredients and simmer 30-45 minutes. Serve over rice or mashed potatoes

From: Source: Nana Heinz’ kitchen

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This is a weekend favorite, either for breakfast or dinner. It packs away lots of vegetables and has such a rich diversity of flavors it satisfies the palate.¬

Savory Scramble

1 Tbsp olive oil
1 onion, diced
1 sweet pepper, diced (paprika peppers work nicely)
1 squash/zucchini, sliced or diced
1 tomato, diced
1-2 other vegetables as you please (kale, broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, green bean, mushrooms etc. Add to sauté early if a dense vegetable.
1# extra-firm tofu, crumbled (just squish it in your fists; cooking is fun!)

½ cup soy milk, unflavored
½ tsp sea salt
¼ tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp ground paprika
1 tsp ground tumeric
1 Tbsp fresh or dried parsley
1-2 sprigs fresh oregano, minced (or 1 tsp dried)
4-5 sprigs fresh thyme, stripped from stem (or ½ tsp dried)
2 cloves garlic, pressed/minced

Start the sauté with olive oil and onions on medium heat, then add peppers, then squash, then tomato, then other veggies, then tofu.

Meanwhile, mix the soy milk and herbs/spices in a small bowl.

Once the veggies are cooked to your liking, add the seasoning liquid the pan and stir well to coat. Allow to heat thru for 3-4 minutes on medium.

Serve warm with toast and maybe a patty or two of GimmeLean sausage.

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Everyone feel free to add your favorite recipes to the website.

For Your Reading Pleasure

The No Recipe Cookbook: A beginners guide to the art of cooking
by Susan Crowther

I saw this book in our local town co-op grocer; it caught my eye because the title is generally how I cook. As I flipped thru, then started reading thru, I really liked her approach. It is a bit of story-telling, a bit of how-to-stock-your-pantry, and a bit of kitchen wisdom on the little things that make a dish/meal successful.

If you want to navigate away from hard-and-fast recipe reading, give this book a read. It may help you cut the umbilical cord that ties many to strict recipes, and may give you the freedom to “toss” together dinner with just your palate to guide you. “Hmm, what am I hungry for tonight? Maybe something with cumin or oregano or tomato or corn…” You’ll probably make some duds, I do for sure, but I like the freedom this book gives you.

See what you think.

Farm News

It was a beautiful day for harvest today. What a sky! Hard to stay focused on the tasks at hand. :) Weather was perfect, no bugs to contend with, ground was damp from the rain so kneeling was not an act of torture. But, the rain yesterday sure did feed the weeds. Ok, it fed all of the other stuff too, so we are happy on balance.

Take a look at that sky. Love it.

We remain quite pleased with the warm-season produce progress in the high tunnel. Knock wood…not to jinx ourselves. The pruning of the tomatoes and cucumbers has remained on track (pat the back and thanks to MP volunteering.) The cucumbers are growing in an umbrella-trellis system, with one leader going up and then two leaders coming back down after flipping over the top wire. The tomatoes are growing with a two leader system with both stems growing up until they are unreachable, then we “lower and lean” the spool and plant so it coils on the ground. (Well, that is the hope. Sometimes they just sag and crack!) Kinda fun to push these plants into weird growing patterns and yet keep them happy. Oddly enough, pruning off all lower leaves (up to the fruit node) is ideal and keeps disease at bay. I have fun hacking and slashing each week, knowing it is all for a good cause!

The high tunnel is filling up; this is a no-passing zone.

Have a wonderful week, and enjoy the vegetables.

Roger and Lara

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Order Reminder

Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!

Happy ordering!

We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!

Check out our Facebook page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events.
Be sure to click on the “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page to get automatic updates. Thanks!

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Russellville Community Market

ALFN Local Food Club:  Don’t Panic!

There’s still time to get your weekly order in. Lots of time. Now that The Market is open from noon on Sunday until noon on Wednesday, you have an extra five hours each week to plan your menus and browse the awesome offerings of some of Arkansas’ finest farmers. Offerings like:

• Apple bratwurst – Falling Sky Farm. is offering a special on these crowd-pleasing sausages. If you can spare freezer space for 10 pounds, you’ll save $1.50 per pound. If you can’t spare the space, invite everyone you know over for a backyard brat-fest!

• Juliet tomatoes – Whether you order from Crimmins Family Farm or Bee in My Bonnet Farm, you can’t go wrong with this workhorse of a tomatoes. They’re a bit drier than slicing tomatoes, a bit more moist than paste tomatoes, and positively packed with flavor. Use them in salads, sauces, soup, sandwiches, or any other tomato endeavor.

• Blackberry and muscadine jam – The fantastic folks at Bluebird Hill Berry Farm know that you don’t want to steam up your kitchen making jam, but you still want something delicious to jazz up your toast. Lucky for you they make delicious jam with fruit grown on their own farm. Locally made using locally grown ingredients. It doesn’t get any better than that!

While you’re shopping for next week’s fare, don’t forget about this week! If you find yourself wishing you’d ordered just a bit more and don’t want to wait until Saturday to restock your refrigerator, stop by Whole Foods this evening and shop ‘till your heart’s content. No need to feel guilty, because they’re donating 5% of today’s sales to ALFN! In fact, we’ll be there until 7:00pm. So stop by and say hi. We’d love to see you there!

-Rebecca Wild
Program Manager

Do you have questions or comments about this, or any, weblog? Thoughts on local food, goods, or events? Reply to this email and let us know what’s on your mind. Your feedback is always greatly appreciated!

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Just a Short Time Left to Order!

Please remember to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Wed), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, perennial plants & hanging baskets! And all the new summer vegetable bounty on the market as well!

Pickup will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. Please e-mail me or call (931) 273-9708 if you would prefer to pick up on Friday morning between 10 am and 1 pm.

Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop with us and support local farmers!

Here is the complete list for this week. See you on Thursday!

~ Linda

How to contact us:
On Facebook
By e-mail
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Tomato Special!

Farmer Grey has organic canning tomatoes on sale- 25 lbs for $15! Don’t miss out.

Also, Zion Gardens has added artisan tomatoes to the market this week. These are small cherry-like tomatoes that come in striped colors- very sweet and very pretty.

Have a great week and eat well!
Risa

Oglethorpe Fresh Locally Grown:  This Week's Market

Some really yummy local produce at your finger tips with Oglethorpe.locallygrown.net, Check out this weeks offerings. Quick reminder to our Oglethorpe Locally Grown Friends: market opened at 6:00 Sunday, August 17 for Wednesday, Ausgust 20 pick-up. Wednesday pick-up days are quite lively from 4-7 p.m. with extras from the growers, meet a grower and check out the rest of all that is Oglethorpe Fresh, 111 South Platt Street. First 100 customers $15 annual membership waived. Tell a friend and We hope to see you there.

Champaign, OH:  Woodstock

We are stardust…
We are golden…
(Woodstock…written/performed by Joni Mitchell (Ladies of the Canyon)(then performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)

This past weekend saw the 45th anniversary of Woodstock. At the Springfield Farmer’s Market and then the Madden Road Music Festival, I handed out groovy flower face stickers in honor of this very monumental occasion that nobody had planned on, all those years ago. It was billed as a music and art gathering…it became so much more.

It reminds me of this little local market of love. In the beginning, we were billed as just a little flash in the pan. Just a little experiment with a grant that those who came before me, worked hard to secure. We started bare bones and were unsure if we would make it out of our first three months let alone our first year.

But, here we are…bigger, brighter, stronger and growing stronger with each week! We are definitely stardust…we are definitely golden…our little flicker of a market continues to become this amazing celebration of all things local.

Jump on this little movement…if you have yet to try us out, do so. We love showing ourselves off, showing what we are about, what we do. Take the time to become part of an already amazing band of local loves.

It is Tuesday…get yourself organized, put on a little music that celebrates the anniversary of Woodstock, and get your orders in. Tonight, at 10pm, we close for the week.

You will want to say that you were a part of the scene:)

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
(Cosmic trivia…I am a huge Joni Mitchell fan and own an original “Ladies Of The Canyon” album…all scratched up, played a million times, and yes, I could play the cd or my Ipod…but vinyl is my love. I used to haunt music record stores at a very young age)

Ok, enough about me…go order!!

Citrus County Locally Grown:  Two New Growers

NEW THIS WEEK

We Welcome two new growers

BRINDLE SOUTHERN FARMS

Products at this time include;

• Basil
• Egg Plant
• Okra
• Oregano
• Smoked Sea Salt
• Smoked Mullet
• Natural Deodorant
• Beeswax Products, Including Lip Balm

DEB’S NATURAL SOURCE

The Best in Whole Food Nutrition

A great place to spend a while checking it all out.

Products listed, and sure to increase:
Wheat Free Breads

Welcome to you both.

UPDATE

FLORIDA FRESH MEAT

• BEEF Baron Packs 4 & 5 Added
  Make sure that all your meat is Humanely raised and harvested locally.

MOM’s KITCHEN & GARDENS

Are on vacation this week.

POINTS OF INTEREST

Milk supply continues to be tight. Herd expansion will occur soon.

Planting of winter vegetables begin soon.

Ocala Central Pickup Point

A New Earth Farm and Feed
Located at:
3423 E Silversprings Blvd
Ocala, FL 34470

Link to Location Map.

Dunnellon “Temporary”

Located at:
1644 W. Pinion Lane
Dunnellon, FL 34434

Link to Location Map.

Our growers thank you for supporting local growers and business.

Pickup is Thursday August 21st
An email will sent to all customers early Thursday confirming pickup points

Thank you for supporting your On-Line Farmers Market. Your purchases have made a difference to many families

Your CCLG Team

THE MARKET IS OPEN
The link below will take you there.

www.citruscounty.locallygrown.net/.

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Aug 17 2014

Bumper crop of cukes, zukes and tomatoes, oh and eggplants too. Peppers here but not in abundance yet.
Regular greens too, see list.

Getting a load of 200 bales of straw in the next hour or two, quick notice again from my farmer source. Bedding for the cows indoors for the winter. Can anyone come by tomorrow tuesday for a couple hours to help? Would really make the difference if we can get this in the barn before Wed when it’s supposed to rain.

If you ordered roasting chickens, please come soon to pick up. I took the remaining 60 birds to be butchered today so the freezers will be fuuulll.

Maremma pups are lovely. still have 4, two males, two females, have reduced price to $300. Interested?

StPete.LocallyGrown.Net:  Market NOW Open - Aug. 18, 2014 SUMMER SCHEDULE IN EFFECT

PLEASE READ all about our summer market schedule at this link.