Hello CSA members,
Week one had us washing and packing a lot of fresh greens! This week will be very similar with plenty of greens still in season and the late spring/early summer crops not quite ready yet. We got the first strawberries and they are sizing up slowly but surely but still a little slow for shares with the cool weather and storms we had we will be doing our best to get you as many berries as we can off this older crop. We did get 2000 more plants in this week so that’s great for future crops! We had two tornado warnings in two days here but no damage from the storms so that’s good news! This last week we planted a lot including strawberries, eggplant, and sweet peppers and we worked on trimming all the tomatoes and pulling weeds.
Baby Kale Mix: Our kale mix is great for salad or sautéing. The flavor is excellent and the greens more tender at this baby stage.
Spinach – Spring spinach is deep green with good rich flavor, i like it cooked down as a side green or in pasta, or you can use it for salads. This batch is our third crop all ready this spring and the first outdoor crop. Large shares will get a double portion on what is our feature crop this week.
Romaine Lettuce heads- These are def nice and green with smaller hearts still great for salads, maybe a caesar!
Butterhead lettuce hearts: Our butterhead lettuce got a little beat up in the storms but we will harvest the hearts and send those along as a buttery iceberg head.
Micro Radish Greens- These small radish plants are spicy and go great on sandwiches, burgers, salads, tacos, and more.
Strawberries- The first fruits of the year this week are nice size and good flavor although we planted a new field this year so it will be nothing compared to next seasons crop, we are still loving these field ripe organic berries and we hope you do too!
Radish – Red french breakfast spring radishes are great with all the greens for salads or just as a fresh snack.
I hope everyone has their favorite salad dressings and stir fry recipes ready for this healthy week of spring greens. Remember bi-weekly members are off this week. Market share members I will be at Madison’s E Side Farmers Market On Tuesday and Fitchburg Market on Thursday if you want to come pick out some veggies we will have all the items listed above at market those days and also Saturday ill be on the square for Dane County Farmers Market! The address and times for those markets are listed on the main page of our website. Thank you all and I’ll see some of you at the drop sites. Have a great memorial day weekend. -Kyle
