Cut your own flowers are available to all CSA members on your pick-up day in the side garden west of the house. Scissors are in the pick-up room under the blackboard. Keep your eye out for butterflies as you pick your bouquet.

If you get too many beets in the fridge and don’t know what to do with them try this pickle recipe. The cider vinegar makes it not quite so sharp.

Cook beets with the skins on and then peel and cut into chunks. Fill jars with beets. Boil the following ingredients together to make a syrup and pour it over the prepared beets. Let them stand in the fridge for a week before eating. If you need more syrup to cover your prepared beets just make another batch. If you have too much syrup, just save it in the fridge until you have more beets.

1 1/2 cups cider vinegar

1/2 cups water

4 teaspoons salt

1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon celery seed