Enterprise Farm winter farm share

[magid]

I'm starting partway through the season, so it doesn't feel appropriate to number the weeks. I got a large box, and the pickup is at the dairy bar of Kickass Cupcakes (note to self: they have some kosher hard cheeses there, including an aged goat-milk cheddar from a producer I've never seen before; it's spendy, but might be worth splurging once). There are the usual waxed cardboard boxes, which I decanted into bags to bring home, so I won't have to remember to bring the box back next week.

Sourcing information from this week's newsletter, in a PDF on the website in the news section. That shows me that other lucky people got potatoes, rutabagas, eggplant, beets, turnip, and dinosaur kale.

All items in this week’s share are organic, except for the apples, which are IPM, and the onions, which are now from a local conventional farm.

• eight apples (I'm guessing that I have four Empire, two Fuji, and two Mutsu), Clarkdale Orchard, Deerfield, MA
  
• three small onions, Long Plain Farm, Whately, MA
  
• three sweet potatoes (not sure whether Beauregard or Ruby), Watauga Farm, NC
  
• one celeriac, Full Bloom Farm, Whately, MA
  
• a bunch of kale (I was given red, though green and dinosaur were also possibilities), Lady Moon, FL
  
• a bunch of flat parsley, Lady Moon Farm, FL (this one's up for grabs, if someone is a parsley lover)
  
• a large head of red-leaf lettuce and a large head of green-leaf lettuce, Lady Moon Farm, FL
  
• five bell peppers, all green except a lone redster, Lady Moon, FL
  
• five medium-small zucchini, Lady Moon, FL
  
• a bunch of green chard, Lady Moon, FL
  
• a pint of grape tomatoes, Lady Moon, FL

On the whole, I'm a tiny bit disappointed that there aren't more root vegetables, which would also be more local. And I miss choosing my own stuff as at the Red Fire distributions, since that would have ensured lacinato kale over the red, for instance (not that there's room for it, and it would be much trickier logistics that way too). It's still happy-making to have a farm share that's partly local, and on the perfect day for my week.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nice use of decanted!

Still not using parsley?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Parsley is still a seder food, in my head, despite my mom putting copious amounts of it into tabouli. No clue why I'm so parsley-resistant, really.

Not summer!

[(Anonymous)]

It's the summer squash that keeps weirding me out. (Last week was crookneck.) My biggest disappointment has been the high percentage of "out of season" vegetables; they've never given us a winter squash. I redact my complaint for the oranges, though; for nearly a month we got 4 oranges or tangerines---it was heavenly.

Mary
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Re: Not summer!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize anyone else I knew was doing this! Maybe I'll run into you some week at the pickup :-).

I'd be happy if there were a couple of leafy greens from Away and the rest were localish root vegetables (rather like what I was getting in the winter share from Red Fire). I like root veggies, especially in winter! Though I see that the sweet potatoes are NC, which is a lot closer than FL, yet still not particularly local.

Re: Not summer!

[(Anonymous)]

Actually we have the thing delivered (only 3 dollars a week! by bike!) because we're both at work during the delivery hours.

I completely agree about the root vegetables. It's strange to have lettuce or crookneck squash at home and to have to go to the store for butternut.

I'm still loving the oranges, though, and I think the Vitamin C has actually helped me this winter. I would never have bought them on my own.

Mary

Re: Not summer!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I love that there's bike delivery, but I can't justify it for myself. You know that they've extended their hours? That was part of why I finally got around to signing up; I could actually get there after work (by 7 pm isn't such a hardship for me).

It feels a bit more balanced this week, but it's still not heavy on the root veggies. I mean, a bunch of beets is not generally two unless they're significantly larger than these are...

I hear you about the citrus.

Re: Not summer!

[(Anonymous)]

No! I didn't know about the extended hours; they pretty much fail on the communication aspect of farming, at least in my experience. (But that's a whole 'nother rant.)

Yeah, I was thinking this week that we didn't get anything "special" (although the dandelion or arugula or whatever probably counted as "special") so it did feel like a lot more usable food. But I did go out and buy both squash and more chard.

Re: Not summer!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I found it hard to find the weekly list of stuff when I was first poking around the site; I had sort of assumed that there'd be a weekly email, for those they had addresses, anyway.

I'm pretty sure what I got was dandelion, not arugula, based both on the shape of the leaves and the flavor. I'm still using last week's lettuce, and had some other veggies around, so it's more about having enough alliums for me, so far, anyway. It feels like more than my usual mid-summer share, though I'm not sure how much of that is just getting back into the swing of farm share cookery. (I'm doing a lot better keeping up this week.)