[local eating] Ultimate veggies (20/20)

[magid]

Well, for the regular summer season, anyway, though I've got the winter share extension into November and December. (And now they've announced one that will go through March, but I've already gotten a share through Enterprise Farm until May.)

• a butternut squash
  
• a bunch of collards or kale (lacinato all the way!)
  
• a head of lettuce (I got a dark purple oak-style leaf one)
  
• a quarter pound of mixed salad greens
  
• a radicchio
  
• six pounds of assorted root vegetables (I got onions, rutabaga, golden beets, celeriac, and a humungoid parsnip; there were also carrots, red beets, purple-top turnips, black radishes, and likely other things I'm forgetting, but no potatoes (white or sweet))

I also picked up the bulk veggies I'd ordered (for me, half a bushel of onions, a 25-lb bag of rutabagas, and a quarter bushel of golden beets).

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

ultimate veggie sounds like a cage match!

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*

In one corner, a club of Brussels sprouts! In the opposite corner, prickly artichoke!

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

also, I was tempted by Enterprise farm's winter share. have you done it before?

[magid.livejournal.com]

I had their winter share last winter (check the memories section under farm share for detailed lists). It wasn't very local, and while I appreciated things like citrus, I'd've rather had more local root veg in the mix. I think last winter was their first year, and I know that they did well enough that they'd contracted with local farms to provide a greater percentage of truly local veg in the mix. I do like having veg + fruit, too.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Would you say this was a pretty typical year for Red Fire for winter squash volume? I ask because the amount of it felt absurdly low but I don't know how much I've been spoiled by the way Steve lavishes his goods on us.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I think it's low, though I've never gotten the quantities you've gotten from Steve. That said, I expect there will be more winter squashage in the November and December deliveries.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

*nodnod*

We didn't get the winter share and of course I couldn't predict Steve's farm would suffer so much this season (though when I saw him yesterday, he literally forced butternuts upon me :).

It's kind of a bummer that I'd have to get the winter share in order to reap the fall harvest, but I know RF does things differently. I definitely liked the combo (and will be doing it again next year), but if I had to go back to just one, it'd be Parker.