Enterprise Farm winter farm share
Feb. 11th, 2009 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI'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.
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.
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.