Spoutwood Farm CSA Harvest Guide: Week 13- Sept 2, 2004 Harvest Guide for Baltimore Delivery and Pick Up at the farm
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Mother Earth's Harvest Faire: Saturday September 25, 10 AM - 5 PM. This is our First Annual harvest festival. Come out and join us for a celebration of sustainable living for healthy people and a healthy planet. Volunteers are needed to help run the CSA booth, conduct CSA Garden Tours and give garden demonstrations. Hours will count toward CSA hours. Please contact Rob or Katie at 717-235-6610 if you are interested in helping. Check out the poster for more details and please take a bunch to put up wherever you think people will see them. Spread the word!
Cheese: We have 2 and 1/3 pound blocks of cheddar and Baby Swiss in our fridge for sale for only $19! Excellent organic cheese. First come, first serve.
Call us ahead of time to add it to your CSA delivery, or pick it up fresh at the farm, 717-235-6610.
Instead of ordering thru the cheese people, order thru us.
Please pick up two different Organic Cheese Samples and the flyer with instructions for ordering!
Or click HERE for Sources for Organic Dairy and Meats
Work Weekends at the Farm: This weekend we will start getting ready for the Harvest Faire, Friday the 27th thru Sunday the 29th. Anyone who wants to volunteer to help out, please call. Also the weekend of Sept 17-19 will be a Starbucks Work Weekend thanks to member and Starbucks employee (partner) Matt McDunnell. For every hour volunteered those days, Starbucks will pay us $10 toward food for the poor. Please call the farm to sign up.
If you owe hours or money to the CSA, or if unsure, please call us for info or to arrange work or payment.
Swiss Chard- Chard is a great vegetable coming in green, red, yellow and orange. The stems steam, stir fry or boil to a soft and tasty texture. Use raw in salads or cooked any number of ways. Great cooked and butter or olive oil and seasonings added to the hot greens.
Kale-You get to choose from a potpourri of kale: Green Curly, Red Russian, Siberian or White Russian and Dinosaur Kale for a nutritious, steamed or stir-fried treat. The curly kale does the best this time of year.
Radishes, Carrots - Just the beginnings for these root crops. Remember that the radish greens go well in salads.
Lettuce again.
Spinach - Use raw in salads or cook by any number of methods.
Celery - Chop into salads, soups, stir fries. This celery is much greener and stronger than conventional celery.
Corn - We're embarrassed to send only one ear of "Silver Queen" corn. Corn didn't do well for us, even though in general it's a good corn year.
Cucumber - Sadly, cucumbers are over.
Bell Peppers - Bell peppers are coming faster.
Chili Peppers - This is a mild "hot" chili pepper variety.
Tomatoes -. Sadly the wet weather is giving many toms throughout central PA/Northern MD late blight. Our vines are dying back and our tomatoes are starting to rot before they are ripe. Another week with slim pickins is perhaps the best we can expect. The green toms with green stripes are called "Green Zebras" and are ripe when they have a golden glow to the green, and one of our favorites for taste.
Tomatillos - An important ingredient in salsa. Use in stir fries or soupos and cut up into salads. Looks like a tomato with a husk on, but the taste is very different.
Eggplant -Long skinny "Orient Express," "Green Apple" as well as bell-shaped "Black Beauty.
Herb -- Basil and dill. Try dill and basil in sandwiches, salads and cooking.
Flowers and Herbs Bouquet-African marigolds, ageratum, tansy, cosmos, Jerusalem artichoke flower, globe amaranth, etc..
Eggplant Stirfry
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
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4 Asian eggplants sliced
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1 tablespoon veg oil
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2 teaspoon brown sugar
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5 scallions chopped
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2 tablespoon sesame oil
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1 cup snow peas
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1/4 cup soy sauce
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2 peppers sliced
Directions:
Heat the oils in the wok. Once very hot add the peppers, and the eggplant. Cook for 4 minutes, until softened. Add the snow peas, and the scallions. Dissolve the brown sugar in the soy sauce, and then add it to the pan. Cook for 2 more minutes, and serve.
Serves: 2 Preparation time: about 15 min
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