THE BEET: VOLUME 19; WEEK 4

FULL SHARE & GREEN HALF SHARE
PICK UP TONIGHT

 

5pm–7:30pm at JACK Theater
18 Putnam Ave (between Grand and Downing)

Please wear a mask and practice social distancing!  

This Week's Share

  • Oakleaf lettuce

  • Radishes

  • Arugula

  • Kale

  • Garlic scapes

  • Green onions

  • Summer squash, zucchini, or cucumbers

  • Kohlrabi

  • Hakurei turnips

  • Fruit: Yonder Farm's sweet cherries

If you purchased an order from Lewis Waite Farms, it will be arriving with your share today! The next delivery date is July 30th. 

News from Windflower Farm

Distribution #4 - Week of June 29, 2020

Greetings from Windflower Farm where it continues to be hot and mostly dry. Too dry for crops, that is, but wet enough for weeds.

What’s in your share?
Oakleaf lettuce (lime green)
Radishes (red)
Arugula
Mixed kales
Garlic scapes
Green onions
Summer squashes or zucchinis or cucumbers
Kohlrabi (green)
Hakurei (sweet, white) turnips
 
“C” is for cucumber. Cucumbers and squashes are just getting started, and we don’t have quite enough of both for everyone. So we are asking you to choose one or the other. We’ll write the letter “C” on boxes containing cucumbers, and nothing on boxes containing summer squashes or zucchinis.   
 
You will be seeing the last of our garlic scapes this week. The scapes can be run through your food mill and added to butter or Earth Balance to make a flavorful, garlicy spread. Heat and drought stress have made our garlic crop mature a couple of weeks earlier than usual. It looks like it may be ready to harvest as early as next week. We’ll cure them in the barn for a few weeks prior to sending them to you.
 
I think that kohlrabi is best eaten raw, sliced thin as part of a salad, or sliced thick and dipped in hummus, pesto or your favorite vegetable dip. In this way, it can be an early season stand in for carrot sticks or celery.
 
Sweet, white Japanese turnips are my favorites among the many turnip options out there. They are not as strongly flavored as the Crimson Reds and Purple Tops you find in the fall or as imposing as rutabagas. Sliced and sautéed in olive oil and garlic, they make a surprisingly sweet and tender side dish. They can also be prepared raw, as you would radishes in a salad, and you’ll find them to be more mild.  
 
Your fruit share will be Yonder Farm’s sweet cherries.
 
Beets, cucumbers and Swiss chard should be coming next week. Tomatoes are sizing up and breaking yellow and will be in shares soon.
 
Have a great week, Ted

  • Going away for the 4th of July? Post a message to the half share group if you need to swap pick up days! We're also on Facebook Instagram and Twitter - follow us for more recipes, tips, and photos of the farm!

  • If you wish to make a donation to offset the farm's COVID-related packaging expenses, you may do so here! All those who donate will receive a recycled cotton Clinton Hill CSA tote bag, while supplies last!

  • Attn: Gardeners and pepper-lovers: Local organic gardener Ruth Kierstein has a limited number of organic Hungarian Wax pepper seedlings available for sale. Exceptionally aromatic and sturdy line. Seedlings have a minimum of three sets of true leaves and are ready for hardening off/transplanting. For contactless pickup in downtown Brooklyn. $6 for one, $16 for three, $25 for five. Payment via Zelle preferred. Please contact her directly at rpkirstein@pm.me. 

  • Don't forget to sign up for your 2020 work shifts!

  • If it is medically unsafe for you to pick up your share, and you are unable to make other arrangements, please let us know at information@clintonhillcsa.org and we will do what we can to make sure your share gets to you.

  • And, finally, your weekly reminder about compost site locations:  Domino Park (South Williamsburg) - food scrap collection Mondays 10am-12pm and Thursdays 6pm-8pm, and BK Rot (1309 Dekalb Ave, Bed Stuy/Bushwick border) - food scrap collection Sundays 12-3pm - if you know of any others, let us know!

Recipes

Japanese turnips are mild and slightly sweet.  They can be eaten raw, but develop a buttery sweetness when roasted.  This recipe for Miso-roasted turnips uses both the roots and the greens.

If it's too hot to use the oven, simply slice them and throw them in a salad (the skins are edible too!), or make pickles!

See a vegetable you don't recognize?  Our website has information, storage tips, and recipe ideas for nearly everything that comes in the box! 

We'd like to hear from you!

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Veronica