I can hardly believe our CSA season has come to an end. The CSA garden has been both my escape and my challenge all season long. The never ending weekly to do list – planting, weeding, picking. Then start again. The weekly CSA pick sheet needed by Sunday morning. Saturday is the day I sit down with Silvia to discuss …
Carrie cooks up corn: Prairie Gardens CSA adventures
This week was a continuation of last week’s catch up cooking. I started off with corn from the CSA then I picked up a couple dozen more of classic yellow to freeze. And with the corn from my garden starting to fill in, my fridge was full to the brim. How to pick corn The first thing to look for …
Spuds and Slaw: CSA with Carrie
My focus for this week was to catch up on potatoes and cabbage. If you have a family share, you know what I’m talking about! And the zucchini keeps on coming! The volume of zucchini that Tam has been able to harvest this year is impressive! I started off the week with roasted potatoes and rainbow carrots. This time, I …
Beets, beets, good to eat! Carrie’s CSA adventures
Another bountiful basket I hope you all had extra bags in your vehicles to handle it all! The kids ate the crab apples on the way home, until their tummies were full. The beans mix, topped off what I had picked at home. They were all blanched and frozen together. Same with the peas. Tomatoes and cucumber all eaten up …
CSA with Carrie: Bok Choi stir-fry and creamy dill potatoes
So much to work with this week! Cherry tomatoes, raspberries and strawberries were pretty much eaten up in the first day. Fruit does not last long around here. You would think we would have our fill of the raspberries since I’ve picked six ice cream pails of berries from my own patch so far. And I probably have two more …
CSA with Carrie: Potato salad, Pico de gallo and Roasted pork and fennel
This week, we walked off the farm with Fennel, Basil, Cilantro, Peas, Baby White Potatoes, Saskatoons and Golden Raspberries, Spinach, Swiss Chard, Heritage Tomatoes and Zucchini. Quite a selection! This week was quite busy with birthday parties, play dates and going out to fill in some of that boredom summer time for the kids. As a result, I didn’t cook …
Let the fields be with you
Farmer Tam’s Field Report July 30, 2017 The fields are popping – finally. After what felt like a long, crazy wet spring – making it a challenge to plant followed by a too hot and dry start to summer. The fields finally say abundance! Strawberries are still going strong after a much needed one-day rain and soak. We sampled the …
CSA with Carrie: Arugula pizza, kale chips and lemony dill
This week’s pick up included: cut-leaf arugula, baby kale, spring onions, dill, sugar snap peas, Norland baby red potatoes and a snack basket of strawberries. There are some things in the weekly CSA basket that you use quickly because you know exactly what to do with them – and then there are new foods that might stump you for a …
Strawberries Galore!
Carrie’s CSA strawberry muffins & jam I was floored when I was handed our family share of strawberries a couple Sundays ago! Whoo-hoo! Jam time! I didn’t make jam that afternoon because I wasn’t prepared – I ended up making a batch on Monday. Cooked strawberry jam Berries were washed, halved and hulled. You definitely do not want the little core …