Yesterday's box... and, bring back bags and boxes!!!

Someone got a surprise via a little bundle of wild grapes (if curious, google 'river grapes') that I left in a box by mistake... I like these sour things, and the students and I picked enough during our field trip on Friday to make a couple quarts of juice. Hopefully whoever found them in their box dared to try them, and not just throw them away!

Just a quick recap of what exactly you got yesterday: packaged mixed tomato bundle (golden and red cherries + a smaller red slicing variety), kohlrabi, cabbage, semi-spicy peppers, radishes, kale or broccoli florettes/flowers, possibly a rutabaga, onions, a couple of embarrassingly crooked and undersized cucumbers (sorry, I'm not sure exactly why all our plants are dying so early) and some goose's foot. Yes, a bird's walking appendage :) This was the green plant on top, with the long tough stalk and the spade-shaped, small green leaves. Pick the leaves off the stalk of the goose's foot and eat them either raw (added to salads, thrown on a sandwich) or cooked like spinach.

One last note: please bring back the zip-lock bags, so we can keep bagging the fresh lettuce separately from everything else. I didn't have enough bags yesterday, because we've had about a 50% return rate -- so this time around I had to put the lettuces loose in the box. Finally, if you have a wood box hiding at home, please get it to me! We are four short in advance of next Sunday's share packaging, and I'm running out of creative options as to how to pack up all thirteen share members' produce...

best,

Mr. M

Quick rundown on what's in this week's box...

Thanks to Doro for the fun "over-the-truck" photo. What you'll find in this week's box is the following: onions, beets, turnips, salad greens (bagged), peppers N' tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, kohlrabi and kale greens. Fun stuff like eggplant and even some melons coming soon :)

Substitutions: You may not have received a squash, as there weren't enough fruits to put in each box, but you should have gotten more cukes if this is the case. Also, if you didn't get broccoli florets (ugly as ours are), you should have gotten kale. Finally, if you didn't get a head of salad lettuce, you should have gotten delicious Tatsoi (asian) greens instead -- they look like dark green, marbled spoons.

Two more things, and then I'll go:

#1 -- Check out a post by one of our garden student interns, Sheera, below!!! For whatever reason, you all don't get email notices when 'guest' bloggers like her create a new page. But she's going to make at least a few more -- so I'll try to send out timely emails to keep you aware!

#2 -- Please use our new wiki (link at top right of page) to share recipes! For those of you who signed up and can't figure out why you can't make pages yet -- you must request to be added as a member. I just tried to join and was successful, and this is the step I think you all might be missing. I didn't have to find a link for it (though there should be one); when I did it, the notice popped up automatically, and I said, 'sure, request away!"

best,
Mr. M