August 4, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: watermelon, sweet corn, zucchini, cucumber, tomato, green or red sweet pepper, onions and a green (either Swiss chard, collards or head lettuce). It is not really an exaggeration to say that peace and happiness begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking. — X. Marcel [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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July 8, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: leeks, onions, potatoes, beans, zucchini, cucumber, beets with tops and salad mix. Farmer Pam writes with news from the farm Good morning – a cool quiet morning – we are in the changeover time of the year – planting the fall crops and getting ready [...]

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