CSA Week 2, 2022

Things you MAY find in our bag or box this week: lettuce, Kale (Winterbor, Redbor, Russian, or Tuscan) or arugula, snap, snow or shell peas, garlic scapes, Swiss chard (white Fordhook, Ruby, Yellow, Bright Lights), Spring radishes and or beets with the tops! Don’t worry, you are not getting one of each variety, LOL!

Since I am not sure what kind of pea you might get, here’s what all our returning members know: Snow peas are flat green or purple pods and yes, eat the whole thing. Sugar snaps and English shell look very similar sometimes. If you are not sure what’s what, bite one in half, if you can chew it up, it’s a snap pea, if not, get shelling. you do not want to be shelling your very dear snap peas.

If you pick up your CSA at a location you see one of us, please feel free to return any containers or frosty bags in good shape for us to reuse. I know you wouldn’t but please do not leave anything behind at any of the private homes or businesses that host CSA pick ups. Thank you. Not that I think anyone is studying the situation too closely, but our microgreens and herb containers are made out of sugar cane and many of the clear bags are cellulose, not plastic 🙂

Fun Fact: purple vegetables like peas and beans will turn green after 4 minutes of cooking.

Reminder: no pick ups anywhere Monday, July 4th. We will add on at the end. Thanks!

Easy Lettuce Wraps according to me

With the amazing lettuce Glenn brought in last night, we had our own lettuce wraps. The longest part of the whole process was cooking the brown rice 😉 This is what I did, but you could easily sub in chicken or beef or go vegetarian. Leave out the rice and go carb free!

• Lettuce – leaves carefully removed, rinsed, excess water shaken off or layer between toweling to dry
• 1 lb ground pork
• 4 or 5 garlic scapes chopped
• 1 can water chestnuts drained and chopped
• 1 1/2 cups cooked rice
• minced pickled ginger (if you have fresh – grate away, or not, use powdered)
• splash toasted sesame oil
• 1 Tb ish Oyster sauce
• 1 Tb ish Hoisin
• splash soy sauce
• sprinkle rice vinegar

In a large skillet, cook the sausage and scapes until the meat is cooked through. Stir in water chestnuts, cooked rice, seasonings. Sample your good work. Serve with lettuce leaves and let everyone fold/wrap their own. I served mine with garlic chili sauce. Yum!

We are glad we got the CSA a week of strawberries. We had a nice crop but it is thinning out now and this kind of weather does not ripen anything. We just heard from a strawberry consultant that there was a tremendous winter kill in strawberry fields all over the state – like he has never seen before. Sad face. Blueberry season coming up though! Glenn was showing me the list of crops still to go in and it was pretty impressive. There’s a lot of planning that goes into all this…understatement.

With the 4th of July right coming up, this is reminder that there are no CSA deliveries or markets that day. We will make it up at the end of the CSA season. That’s you Monday people:)

Faith had hardly recovered from her week at Girl’s State, when she was struck with some abdominal pain. I whisked her off to the ER to confirm my suspicions, appendicitis. Of course, I stayed at the hospital with her the whole time and tried my best to keep CSA organized…some of you may be nodding, now understanding any odd emails or issues that occurred this past week. I am still a little sleep deprived, but we are home now and Faith is doing great! Praise be!

Fledgling birds everywhere! Purple and House Finches have their young at the feeders, along with the Titmice (plural lol), Chickadees, Chipping Sparrows, 2nd round of Robins, and more. The Phoebes are out of the nest and the Barn Swallows are just days away from flying.

Part of our conscientiously grown® philosophy is stewardship of the land to provide great habitat for our native species; we feel blessed every time we see one of our bears or birds or bugs (some of them anyway) and strive to be good neighbors.

Eat well,

Geneviève Stillman