It is helpful to have this blog to easily share recipes and information about the CSA. I would like to thank CSA member, Neil Hubert, for setting it up for us all. I am still working on the “image” feature and hope to sort that our before too long so I can add pictures in for interest.

Please share your recipes that use the farm produce. You can email them to me at kmlaing@execulink.com or bring it to me on your pick-up day.

Just a reminder to bring your own containers for taking home your produce. If you have extra bags please bring them to share for those who forget to bring containers.

The annual flowers are just beginning. If you would like water for the ride home you can always get it in the wash area, behind the pick-up room. There are scissors for cutting in the pick-up room in the the large basket. Please cut flowers from the garden beyond the “cut flower sign” in the front yard of the house. The sunflowers are starting. We have learned that they do well when the stems are freshly cut and put into HOT water. It sounds strange, but it works.

The Kohlrabi and Fennel are in our “vegetable mix” boxes for this week.

Kohlrabi looks like the vegetable from outer space, a bit like a satellite. It can be peeled and eaten raw, chopped up in salad, grated with mayo for a coleslaw, or added to vegetables mixes for roasting, grilling or soups. It’s also good peeled, chopped and added with potato, carrot, onion and garlic around chicken pieces covered with Italian Dressing and roasted in the oven until the chicken and vegetables are cooked.

Fennel has the anise flavour of black liquorish. It is has the texture of celery stalk and can be added like celery to salads. It is also good cooked with roasted vegetables or added to soups.