Enterprise Farm share

[magid]

All items are organic, except for the onions which are from a local conventional farm.

• five small onions, Long Plain Farm, Whately, MA
  
• five sweet potatoes (either Beauregard or Ruby), Watauga Farm, NC
  
• six Yukon potatoes, Deep Root, VT/CAN
  
• a couple of pounds of carrots, Deep Root, Quebec
  
• a bunch of mustard greens, Cottle’s Farm NC
  
• a bag of "braising mix" (looks like green kale, baby lacinato kale, and possibly mustard greens, among other things), Cottle’s Farm, NC
  
• a bunch of flat-leaf parsley, Lady Moon Farm, FL
  
• two heads of lettuce, on red leaf and one green leaf (very large), Lady Moon Farm, FL
  
• a bag (one pound?) of green beans, Alderman, FL
  
• two small green bell peppers, Alderman, FL
  
• four small Macintosh apples, Pine Hill Orchard, Colrain, MA
  
• three oranges, Eagle’s Nest, FL
  
• three large grapefruit, Eagle's Nest, FL

First thoughts: roast the green beans with the end of last week's green beans; sautee the mustard greens with last week's collards, some sweet potatoes, and spicy sausage (would need to get from Brookline); onions, carrots, and potatoes in soup with yellow-eyed peas and roman beans, plus fresh lavender; citrus fruit salad; candied citrus peel; baked apples with cinnamon and possibly walnuts; lots of green salad. I'm out for Shabbat lunch, and bringing vegetable-based food, which right now looks like green salad and the end of the sauerkraut (trying to finish things before Pesach), plus the bunch of parsley, since I know my hosts use it much more than I do.

A few notes: by virtue of aggressive lettuce foistage, I was out of lettuce by Monday night. I hope I'll be able to keep up now. If anyone is interested in joining Enterprise Farm's CSA for the summer, they have spaces available (pickup options are at the farm in Whately, Somerville, Arlington, Dedham, Jamaica Plain, or Fort Point). For those interested in next winter only (November to May), it's possible for current share-holders to reserve space now. I assume this means they'll open it up to everyone else later.

Comments

[megmuck.livejournal.com]

I'm debating (one of the pick-up sites is *really* near our house). How do they compare to other CSAs you've enjoyed?

m.

[magid.livejournal.com]

It's hard for me to compare them to other CSAs, because this winter share is organized with different priorities than a regular summer share.

Summer shares are primarily the produce from one farm, perhaps supplemented for a tricky item (corn) or tree fruit, stuff like that. This is up front about being from a bunch of different farms up and down the east coast (mostly down, right now), though still organic (minus the onions). Personally, I'd prefer a lot more local stuff, with less of the FL/NC produce; I would love to get a cabbage, or lots of beets, or rutabaga, or celeriac, or winter squash, etc. Still, it's their first year with the winter share, so I get the impression they're feeling their way a bit.

That said, they're reliable, and if you don't mind pre-packed boxes, it works well. (And they're good about heavy things on the bottom, leaves on the top, that sort of thing.)