What do Meryl Streep, Vogue magazine and our little CSA have in common? Well, it’s a stretch, but in the January 2012 issue, Meryl is on the cover, Annie Leibovitz was the photographer, and in the opening paragraphs it says Meryl supports and is a shareholder of a local CSA. It seems the term CSA [...]
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Meryl Streep, Vogue and Sandy Spring CSA
February 28th, 2012 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, FYI, video
Tags:Annie Leibovitz·broccoli·congress·CSA·Meryl Streep·National Women's History Museum·organic·Sol Flower Farm·sustainable·Tonne Goodman·Vicki Woods·Vogue·Women's History
Feb 1 is the deadline for early bird discount
January 24th, 2012 · Click here to add a comment · Announcement, share
Sign up now for your Certified-Organic veggie share for Spring/Summer season. Also available, fruit shares, flower shares and herb shares, plus veggie share members can order additional items a la carte, such as milk, eggs, cheese, bread, meats, etc. Click Join for more details.
Tags:certified organic·CSA·flower·fruit·herb·organic·season·share·veggie
Root vegetables and penne
December 15th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · cooking, CSA
From Jennifer: Peel and chop your root vegetables like beet and turnip into cubes. Then chop up your kale or spinach. Saute in olive oil with garlic. Then simmer in broth just enough to cover with white wine until tender. Meanwhile, boil your penne. Then drain the pasta and add the veggies. Toss with parmesan [...]
Tags:carrot·kale·leek·recipe·root vegetable·rutabaga·salsify·turnip
Action at Ashton
October 10th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, share
Today at our Ashton site, members pick up their veggies and fruit.
Tags:Ashton·member·pick up site
African Horned Melon
September 8th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, healthy foods
A CSA member had some fun with the African Horned Melon She also sent us this beautiful card.
Tags:African Horned Melon·beets
Wild for Salmon Buying Club in Sandy Spring, MD
September 5th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, FYI
Last year some of our members told us about this buying club. This group is not connected to our CSA, but we’re happy to pass on their information to you: Steve and Jenn Kurian spend their summers aboard their fishing vessel, the R-J, in Bristol Bay Alaska. Wild For Salmon was formed to allow our [...]
Tags:Amy Stowe·fillets·Jenn Kurian·R-J·salmon·salmon sausage·salmon spread·Sandy Spring·smoked·Steve Kurian·wild for salmon
today’s bounty
September 1st, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, healthy foods
We just received these kind words in an email from a member: SUBJECT: Today’s bounty Really, peeps, I laid all the box contents on the counter this afternoon and it looked like a foodie magazine photo shoot! Right now I am carmelizing the onions with balsamic and rosemary, and the Delicata is in rings for [...]
Tags:bounty·foodie·incredible variety
It’s time
August 25th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · Announcement, CSA
Click here to sign up for a Fall veggie share and enjoy organic veggies through the holidays.
Tags:Fall·holiday·pumpkin·season·squash
5 tips for getting more out of your CSA share
June 3rd, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, FYI
Some timely tips from Kate McDonough, author of The City Cook: Big City, Small Kitchen. Limitless Ingredients, No Time. More than 90 recipes so delicious you’ll want to toss your takeout menus and Editor of TheCityCook.com, via the blog the kitchn. CSA newbies can get discouraged by expecting the same food we’d buy at the [...]
Tags:City Cook·CSA tips·how to use·Kate McDonough·make the most·Simon & Schuster
vegetables in the making
March 11th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · Announcement, CSA
Today we visited one of the farms and saw hundreds of tiny onions, broccoli, tomatoes, kale, romaine, arugula, eggplant, etc. sprouting in a greenhouse. We’re really looking forward to our spring and summer veggies. May can’t come soon enough.