Farm share, week 15

[magid]

• three pounds of sweet potatoes
  
• two pounds of carrots
  
• two-thirds of a pound of golden 'lunchbox' peppers
  
• six large green peppers (I chose long over bell shape)
  
• a pound of mixed salad greens (I swapped half of this for three more green peppers; the only things in the swap box were salad greens and green peppers!)
  
• six tiny red tomatoes
  
• six small red onions
  
• two bunches of green curly kale
  
• a bunch of hot peppers from the take-what-you-want boxes of herbs and hot peppers (a mix of jalapeno, cayenne, and Hungarian wax peppers)

First thoughts: kale and sweet potato in a bean soup, possibly with sausage. Salad or sandwiches with the greens and tomatoes. Snack on the little peppers. Pickle the carrots and hot peppers. Not sure what I should do with the green peppers; suggestions welcome.

I signed up for a winter share with this farm, pickups every other Wednesday from November into March (11 pickups in all), with some of the items from other farms. I asked the distribution person whether it tends to be produce or products, and he said that it's usually maybe one product per time, and there will be a swap box still, so I should be fine!

Comments

Enjoy the winter share!

[avivasedai]

I'm thinking about using the garden box at work (that I've used for a number of years, pre-COVID) to over-winter something, not sure what yet but I want to get moving on it. I also want to prep my own garden boxes for next year, which will be a lot of manual labor. I should do that before the rainy season kicks in here, i.e. ASAP.

Re: Enjoy the winter share!

[magid]

All I know about overwintering is that garlic is planted in the fall, and overwintered parsnips are amazing (the freezing turns a bunch of starch to sugar (which might not be preferable for those minimizing sweet things? I dunno)).

It was pouring here today; we totally needed the rain.

[ruthling]

your lists make me miss the farm share myself, but it wouldn't have worked with schedule stuff.