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Elia Yitzchak ben Lieba Rut v'Daniel

Enterprise Farm winter share

The onions are conventional; the rest is organic.

• three small onions: Long Plain Farm, Whately, MA
  
• four largeish sweet potatoes (Beauregard, Ruby) Watauga Farm, NC
  
• a bag of eight smallish carrots (a pound?) , Deep Root, Quebec
  
• a bunch of lacinato kale, Lady Moon, FL (I win!)
  
• two purple-top turnips (no clue from where)
  
• a head of bok choy, Lady Moon, FL
  
• four smallish red beets with some greens, Lady Moon Farm, FL
  
• a bag (half a pound?) of green beans (no clue from where)
  
• two heads of lettuce, one red leaf and one green leaf, Lady Moon Farm, FL
  
• two green peppers, Alderman, FL
  
• a pint of grape tomatoes, Alderman, FL
  
• three Red Valencia oranges, Eagle’s Nest, FL
  
• six Honey tangerines, Eagle’s Nest, FL
  
• two apples (best guess is a Granny Smith and a Macintosh, though the latter might be an Empire), Bashista’s Orchard and Pine Hill Orchard, MA

All in all, this feels much more doable, barring the lettuce (despite having more salad than I could shake a stick at yesterday, I still have one head of lettuce from a previous week; the lettuce backlog is much smaller, at least). I rather wish one of the lettuces were a head of cabbage instead, but I'll deal.

First thoughts: the tangerines will likely end up as mishloach manot. The bok choy may be stir-fried with tofu. The kale will likely go with one of the sweet potatoes in some stew-like dish, with something spicy. Another sweet potato may be roasted with the beets, and possibly the turnips. The tomatoes will be halved and put into salad with feta and lots of lettuce.

And wholly off topic: March forth, March Fourth!

Ben Zoma

The lunch'n'learn this Shabbat featured a shiur on the Talmudic figure ben Zoma, by Shmuly Yanklowitz, founder of Uri l'Tzedek.

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