Sandy Spring CSA

September 1, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are:
From Pam:
Good morning everyone – another hot sultry day – we are making preparations in anticipation of the pending storm this weekend.
Although we will welcome some rain – we do not need a big blow.
The boxes today are colorful – you should be able [...]

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Here’s a tongue-in-cheek song I wrote about genetically modified tomatoes. Click here to listen.
Enjoy,
Dan
CSA volunteer, web guy and part time songwriter
guitar, bass, vocals, drum programming - Daniel David Johnson
electric guitar - Andrew Coupe
Additional thanks to Andrew Coupe for his recording/engineering expertise.

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July 21, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: peaches (2 shares in each box), 1-2 tomato, onion, 1-2 cucumber, zucchini, potatoes, beets with tops and an assorted green – (salad, collard, Swiss chard, bok choy).
Note from Pam:
The boxes are on the light side today – we are hoping that this is the pit [...]

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June 30, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are:
Sweet corn (just a few sticks)
Squash: zucchini or French heirloom round or yellow squash
Potatoes
Beans (green, yellow or flat Roma)
Broccoli
Beets w/tops or leafy green (kale, collards, Swiss chard)
A reminder NOT TO RUMMAGE THROUGH BOXES and DO NOT SWAP OUT any items. You may be shorting your [...]

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June 16, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: sweet cherries, garlic scapes – great for sauté or pesto, nice head lettuce, beets with tops, soon you will be tired of them, zucchini, Spring onions, rhubarb and new red Norland potatoes.
Here is a link from CSA member Lynn Karpay picking up at Temple Beth [...]

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Who needs to buy a fancy expensive steamer – just pot up your veggies - add a little water & a lid & set on your stoop – remember on the news – when we were kids (when was that?) how the newscasters used to ‘fry’ eggs’ on the sidewalks ?? – today was one [...]

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Here’s an update from Pam, with answers to questions about the upcoming planting party at Calvert Farm.

The party is open to families – but we do request that you keep an eye on your children – this is a working farm.
We have a large barn & a bathroom.
We will have a potluck lunch. please bring [...]

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Pre-season update from our farmer, Pam Stegall of Calvert Farms:
Good morning everyone – hope all is well in your corner of the world.
We are so busy – working in the greenhouse, picking up from the winter storms, plowing, tilling.
The tree frogs have been singing for a few days – the rhubarb is [...]

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Good morning – another beautiful day
Hope all went well yesterday – am sure that everyone behaved themselves & only took one jug of cider each
We hope that everyone enjoyed their cider - you will have more next week. We used some to glaze our roasted root veggies – wow. [...]

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Our farmer sent some info on the sweet potatoes we’ve been getting.

The dark–orange/red skin dark orange flesh – Beauregard (my fav & great for making pie & biscuits),
light almost white tan skin – smooth – white Haman (a gourmet delight – hard to find in regular stores),
gold skin/gold flesh – Puerto Rico, [...]

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