Spring CSA

Week Twelve of the Spring CSA will include the following: Asparagus, Kale, Mesclun Salad Greens, Green Garlic, Shredded Daikon Radish Slaw Mix, and Mushrooms from the Grown-Up Farm. 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.  

Weekly Featured Item: Daikon Radish

Focus this week on the Daikon Radish.  An ugly clunky veggie, but absolutely delicious – it’s sweet with a slightly spicy note – with a high moisture content and a wonderful crunchiness.  High in Vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, it’s considered a low-starch vegetable and is excellent for weight loss.  Daikons can be eaten raw, pickled, roasted, put into soup, and much more.  At Stillman’s Farm, they have been experimenting with secondary products/prepared food that they can make out of the “not perfect for retail” produce.  For example, kale chips made with kale that didn’t sell at that day’s market, or daikon radish slaw made with the three-pound diakons that are a little too big for people to pop into their bags.  This week you will be receiving pre-shredded daikon radish slaw as part of your Spring CSA share.  Below is a killer slaw dressing to offer some inspiration…maybe a taco night in the works for this week?!?!

Cilantro Lime Slaw Recipe

• 1 cup plain Greek yogurt*
• 1/2 cup tightly-packed fresh cilantro
• 1/4 cup freshly-squeezed lime juice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly-cracked black pepper
• 3 green onions (just the green parts)
• 2 garlic cloves
• (optional) 1 jalapeño or serrano pepper, stemmed and cored
• 1 (14-ounce) bag cole slaw mix* (about 7–8 cups)

Combine the Greek yogurt, cilantro, lime juice, cumin, salt, black pepper, green onions, garlic and jalapeño (if using) in a blender or food processor*.  Pulse briefly a few times until the mixtures is combined.  Place the cole slaw mix in a large mixing bowl.  Drizzle the sauce on top of the cole slaw, then toss until the mixture is evenly combined.  Season with extra pepper and/or lime juice if needed.  Serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate for up to 24 hours.

A note about Green Garlic.  Green garlic is the immature garlic plant, harvested before the root begins to mature and become papery.  You can use green garlic to get a head-start on your garlic-eating season.  Simple remove the roots and chop the entire stock from the roots to the first leaf.  Then chuck it into any of your favorite recipes as a garlic substitute.  So good!

Farm Dirt

Stillman’s Farm. It’s been a busy week with too much to do and not quite enough help, but everyone pulled together, and we are working through it. The H2A crew was able to get the entire onion crop transplanted out into the field, a big feat!  The greenhouse crew was busy compiling plant orders for local pick-up and farmer’s markets.  They even shipped quite a few live tomato plant orders nationally through USPS!  The peach and apple orchards were in full bloom this week.  Fingers crossed for good pollination!

Still Life Farm.  Little baby zucchinis are staring to appear in the squash house!!! The crew transplanted our cherry tomato crop into our largest greenhouse, where they will work hard this summer to keep up with customer demand!  Onion transplanting is happening on this farm while I type this.  I keep mowing the lawn only to look outside and realize that it’s grown another foot and looks like hell already!  Kip received a large delivery of hand-me-down trucks this week from a friend and is absolutely thrilled with his new treasures.

If you have not signed up for our CSA programs, I recommend you do so quickly and lock yourself into reasonable pricing…. expenses and prices are going up and the farms are beginning to feel these increases.  

Still Life Farm’s WINTER CSA is now accepting members for 2022-23 Season.  Please visit the link to sign up: Still Life Farm Winter CSA. Email StillLifeFarm@aol.com with any questions.

Stillman’s Farm SUMMER CSA will be kicking off mid-June…with a weeklong gap at the end of the Spring CSA. If you were wondering about timing, the Summer CSA ends a week or two before Still Life Farm’s Winter CSA begins, so there’s no overlap and no need to go too long without fresh, local produce form your farmers! Sign up for Summer CSA here.

Eat well & love your food,

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