[local eating] Enterprise Farm share

[magid]

I got a winter share from Enterprise Farm, which is December to May (leaving me with perhaps a month's gap before Red Fire starts in June. Though I could have switched to Enterprise year round, which in some ways is more convenient. Perhaps next year, depending.). Not everything is as local as in the summer, but they work with a number of farms in New England and down the east coast to provide produce with fewer miles traveled than otherwise (FL rather than CA citrus, for instance). And the newsletters tell me what's from where, whether it's conventional, and other useful tidbits (such as the citrus being harvested ripe, rather than green and then gassed with ethylene.

As it turns out, though I thought I'd asked about a smaller share, I apparently got a large share. I think I'm going to go with it for a bit and see how I do....

This week's share:

• two stalks of broccoli, Enterprise, Whately, MA
  
• a cucumber, Lady Moon Farms, FL (the boring supermarket kind)
  
• a pint of grape tomatoes, Lady Moon Farms, FL
  
• a small bunch of parsley, Enterprise, Whately, MA
  
• about a pound of carrots (seven, ranging from white to palest orange), Enterprise, Whately, MA
  
• four medium sweet potatoes, Faucette Farm, NC
  
• a small head of green cabbage, Enterprise, Whately, MA
  
• a big bag of spinach, Enterprise, Whately, MA
  
• eight satsumas, Eagle’s Nest, FL
  
• eight small red onions, Full Bloom Farm, Whately, MA
  
• a big bag of baby arugula, Equinox Farms, Sheffield MA
  
• about half a pound of wheat berries (conventional) Four Star Farms, Northfield, MA

That last is extremely exciting. I remember getting wheat berries for the first time, in Jerusalem (though there, it's just called "wheat"), and being really pleased with the chewy texture when it was cooked.

Comments

[cellio]

Wow, that's a lot of vegetables. Good luck!

(I've never met wheat berries, at least to my knowledge.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I've seen them in this country only in supermarkets that have bulk bins, for some reason. Around here, that means Bread and Circus Whole Wallet Foods, or Harvest Co-op.

I'm thinking of making a wheat berry salad with the tomatoes and either spinach or arugula. The cabbage may join other cabbage in a new batch of sauerkraut, and some of the carrots (and one last daikon) may join as well. And I've got another farm share pick up erev Shabbat (the second to last Red Fire Farm one). I'm getting towards the end of the turkey leftovers (if I manage to freeze the soup tomorrow), so I'm gaining more fridge space, at least.

[powerfrau.livejournal.com]

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