Spring CSA

Bag 6 of the Spring CSA should include the following:

• Fresh Herbs – Dill or Cilantro
• Arugula
• Mesclun Salad
• Spring Greens – some combination of Bekana, Bok Choi, Kale
• Carrots
• Rainbow Daikon Radishes
• Onions
• Cortland Apples
• Asparagus

Please note that the weekly photo is not an exact depiction of what is in your share, but rather a reference image.

The weekly letter will be coming to your inbox the day before your pickup and is also available at stillmansfarm.com/blog and stilllifefarm.wordpress.com.  

If you cannot recycle or reuse them, we are accepting returned CSA bags.  Please be sure that returned bags are clean and in good condition.

Spring CSA schedule:

We will see you in TWO WEEKS for your next bounty of Spring bag. The schedule is also on our website calendar.

Saturdays:  March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20, May 4, May 18, June 1

• Jamaica Plain, 12-3pm

Sundays:  March 10, March 24, April 7, April 21, May 5, May 19, June 2

• Lunenburg, 12-1pm

Thursdays:  March 14, March 28, April 11, April 25, May 9, May 23, June 6
Boston (Boston Public Market) 12-5pm

• Brookline (Beals Street) 1-6pm
• Watertown (City Hall) 12:30-1pm
• Natick (Princeton Rd) 1:30-6pm
• Worcester (Deadhorse Hill Restaurant) 5-9pm
• Hardwick (Still Life Farm) 4-6pm
• New Braintree (Stillman’s Farm) 12-6pm

Weekly Featured Item: Apples

The end of May gets to be a sticky time with produce availability.  Lots of winter crops are coming out of the greenhouses to make way for the start of summer crops.  That always leaves us in sort of an odd spot for a week or two.  That being said, we still have lots of food!

Apples hold amazingly well in cold storage over the winter!  What a treat while we wait for the flush of early summer fruit to arrive.  The Stillman’s have still been eating tons of apples in order to hit our daily fruit quota!  For Mother’s Day, Curt made me the most delicious Dutch Baby.  Sharing the recipe because it was delicious and easy, and you can adapt it sweet or savory with different fruits or even asparagus, leeks, herbs, whatever…use your imagination. And Happy (slightly belated) Mother’s Day to all our Farm Mamas out there!

New York Times Dutch Baby Recipe, By Florence Fabricant

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/6648-dutch-baby

Ingredients:

• 3 large eggs, at room temperature
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup whole milk, at room temperature
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• Pinch of nutmeg
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• Syrup, preserves, confectioners’ sugar or cinnamon sugar

Preparation:

• Step 1 Heat oven to 425 degrees.
• Step 2 Combine eggs, flour, milk, sugar and nutmeg in a blender jar and blend until very smooth. Batter may also be mixed by hand.
• Step 3 Place butter in a heavy 10-inch skillet and place in the oven. As soon as the butter has melted (watch it so it does not burn) add the batter to the pan, return pan to the oven and bake for 20 minutes, until the pancake is puffed and golden. Lower oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake 5 minutes longer.
• Step 4 Remove pancake from oven, cut into wedges and serve at once topped with syrup, preserves, confectioners’ sugar or cinnamon sugar.

***Curt sautéed/caramelized apples slices in butter before starting the Dutch Baby, then he poured them on top of the batter in the pan before throwing the whole thing in the oven to bake.

Farm Dirt

Stillman’s Farm.  TONS of seeding, planting, and transplanting is happening.  There’s lots of hardy and not-so-hardy plants going out into the field for an early start to the season.  Glenn says he has nine acres of Remay cloth cover down over the early outside crops to protect them from less-than-ideal weather.  The orchards are all pruned, and the bloom was plentiful. Some of the peaches might have gotten nicked on a cold night in April, but overall, we are very hopeful for a big crop this summer. Lots of wildlife news!  At the feeder we have 5 pairs of Rose Breasted Grossbeaks, 2 pairs of Baltimore Orioles, loads of Finches and were graced by an Indigo Bunting the other day. 

Still Life Farm. Curt and the crew have been working very hard on berry care – weeding, pruning, and mulching – and I’m happy to report that all the small fruits are looking good this year!  And we are headlong into field prep – onion field has been prepped and the crew is working to transplant our 50k alliums – that’s a lot of onions.  Next up, the sweet potato field.  Of course, the sweet potato slips (highly perishable) have arrived on Friday afternoon – jeez – not to worry, it will all get done one way or the other.  A tiny orange kitten has arrived at the farm, his name is Gus – but if you ask Kip, his name is Gus Bobbi Scratcher…so there you have it.

CSA Options

Winter CSA 2024-25 Membership Drive is open.  Sign up by June 1, 2024 and save money with our Early Bird Discount!  Still Life Farm CSA

Summer CSA 2024 kickoff is slated for June 15th.  Visit the website to sign up for an option that works for you – a traditional CSA plan, a-la-carte to make your own selections, or one of the fruit or tomato CSAs! Stillman’s Farm Summer CSA

Eat well & love your food,

Halley Stillman (Still Life Farm) & Genevieve Stillman (Stillman’s Farm)