What’s wrong with this picture? From Food Politics by Marion Nestle – USDA has changed the way it reports the country’s annual expenditures on the food system. It has just released the Economic Research Service’s new food dollar report. As the report explains, it is designed to answer the question “For what do our food [...]

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November 18, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: parsnips, carrots, white cauliflower, Romanesco cauliflower, collards, broccoli, winter squash, and white potatoes. Farmer Pam had this suggestion about the Romanesco cauliflower: This cauliflower is green – it looks like little pine trees, and is great raw. Last year I carefully sliced it up (an [...]

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November 11, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: purple broccoli, green broccoli, apples, sweet peppers, hot peppers, rutabaga, onion, carrots, kale, and one half-gallon cider for each person. Recipes: The rutabaga – so new to me before the CSA, it took several tries just to be able to spell it! For those who, [...]

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November 4, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: apples, celery, cauliflower, head lettuce, purple broccoli, white turnips with tops and a jug of cider. Farmer Pam speaks enthusiastically about the turnips: White turnips are nice and sweet. They may be eaten raw, grated into salad, or baked or boiled and then mashed – [...]

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October 28, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: Sweet potatoes, peppers, white potatoes, salad mix, lemon grass herb (just the thing for soup or tea in this wet cold weather), radishes, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, and apples. Recipes: Life with Lemon Grass Lemon grass – yet another CSA adventure! Those who have never cooked [...]

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October 21, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: apples, Winter squash, radish, sweet potatoes, peppers, carrots, broccoli, and Swiss chard. Recipes: Radishes and Friends Who knew that radishes pair with so many of this week’s vegetables? To pair with peppers, try this Pineapple-Radish Salsa, good with chicken, turkey, or pork chops. There’s also [...]

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October 14, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: mustard greens, spinach, broccoli, sweet potatoes, onions, corn, winter squash, peppers or eggplant, herb and apples. Recipes: Sweet Potato and Cabbage Medley Some vegetables, when they come in the fall, can come HUGE – and two of these are cabbages and sweet potatoes. (Anyone else [...]

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October 7, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: apples, sweet potatoes, peppers, winter squash, salad, eggplant, herb, and cabbage. Recipes: Get Stuffed! The cool Fall weather is an invitation for baking: filling the house with warm enticing smells for hours on end. Magically, this week’s veggie box is stuffed full of stuff that [...]

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September 30, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: Fresh picked celery, eggplant, a winter squash (either butternut, buttercup, or kabocha), green or yellow string beans, broccoli, sweet potatoes, fresh apples, and fresh onions. ANNOUNCEMENT: This is the last pickup for the Spring/Summer CSA season. Please return all your boxes! If you are joining [...]

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September 23, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: broccoli, a leafy green (collard or kale or lettuce or salad), potatoes, winter squash (which should be used right away, delicata winter squash (the weather was wet – no storage for this one), sweet peppers, hot peppers, apples, eggplant and beans. Comment overheard at the [...]

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