June 6, 2010
Spring greetings from all of us at Windflower Farm. Thank you for joining us for the 2010 season. As a CSA shareholder, you’ll be eating vegetables that are in-season and organically grown. We hope you enjoy the experience. Our outdoor farming season is just a few weeks old, but already a number of vegetable goodies are ready for harvest.
In your first share of this year’s harvest you will get two salad greens: a head of lettuce and your choice of arugula or purple mizuna. You will also get two cooking greens. You’ll have Swiss chard, ‘Red Russian’ kale, bok choy and ‘Vitamin Green’ to choose from. It’s the season for greens – try the recipe below (ed note: actually, you’ll find it in the newsletter) for a tasty way to enjoy bok choy (or ‘Vitamin Green’). You’ll also get bunches of scallions, red and pink radishes, and a potted herb plant that you can plant, leave on a window sill, clip and hang upside down to dry, or use in a recipe.
Your fruit shares get underway this week, too, with strawberries and rhubarb coming from Yonder Farm in Columbia County. Flower shares will start at one or two sites this week, and will begin everywhere else very soon. Next week’s shares will likely include spinach, arugula, kolrabi, peas and garlic scapes, in addition to a variety of other salad and cooking greens.
Bon appétit,
Ted
