What’s in your basket? Kohlrabi is new this week Kohlrabi is a round heavy tentacled cabbage-turnip-radish – that looks like it should grow underground like a root, but actually grows in the sun on top of the soil. It has a crunchy texture like a water chestnut and a fresh mellow green flavour. You can cook the leaves like cabbage – and eat …
Jellybeans for the berry fairies An urgent message from the berry fairies: Be nice to your sister and bring jellybeans please. Out in the country where the clouds are white and puffy in the middle of bright yellow canola fields and up on a green hill sits a farm. This farm has proud roaming roosters, fence-jumping goats, flower-eating bunnies and …
Sturgeon County is well known for it’s Ukrainian heritage – so this recipe is a nice melding of what’s growing right now and our shared cultural past. In Ukrainian, holubtsi literally means “little pigeons” or stuffed cabbage rolls. Fill them with meat, vegetables or grains like buckwheat. And change up the wrappers too – in the summer, use beet, lettuce, …
Tammy – Mom of one of our CSA families – introduced me to this magical herb sauce. It’s a great way to use up your weekly bunch of fresh culinary herbs. But better than that – it’s heavenly! And easy. Plus, her kids loved it! Technically, it’s a spin on a chimichurri, except it skips the parsley. Trust me and …
By Farmer Tam CSA membership can be a wonderful, rewarding experience! You can head home from work every day to a meal made with beautiful fresh local food. But by the third week, the sheer magnitude of weekly bunches of freshness can start to overwhelm busy people with regular (or even spectacular!) lives to lead. The good news is that …
Cuc and cilantro plant notes Cucumbers and cilantro are ready at the same time in the gardens and greenhouse this week! Cilantro is the Spanish translation for coriander, the botanical name for this herb is Coriandrum sativum and in India, where it is also extremely popular in cooking, it’s called Dhania. We use the green leafy parsley-like foliage for Mexican …
Good food basket pick-ups on July 10 & 13 Hey CSA families – city pick-up is from 5 pm to 7 pm at RGE RD – 123 St & 106 Ave – on Thursday, July 10. Or, if you signed up for farm pick-up you can get your goodies between noon and 6 pm on Sunday, July 13. What’s growing now Red root amaranth …
Farmer Tam’s field report July is the beginning of summer abundance Garden abundance pallet art by Charee Moore’s I made that! board on Pinterest. Edible weeds First it’s the weeds, popping up with wild abandon with no regard for our nice neat rows. But some are edible, like the “Fat Hen” and “Red-rooted Amaranth”, which we’ll be cutting for bunches …
More than anything else I can think of, sorrel falls straight between herbs and greens Use it as a leafy herb – like parsley, basil or mint – chopping it up to use in salsa verdes, dressings or stirring it into soups (like this creamy sorrel soup recipe) for a bit of fresh flavor. Or, use it as a green …
Good food pick up Thursday, July 3 or Sunday, July 6 Yippee – our weekly veg and herb bounty starts this week! CSA families can pick up their good food from the city pick up location at RGE RD – 123 St & 106 Ave – on Thursday, July 3 from 5–7 pm. Or come pick up your goodies and …
