December 23rd, 2008 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband customer,

Once again, we are surrounded by preparations for holiday events of all sorts.  Whatever you are celebrating this week, I hope this basket will help in the process.

Some of you may have noticed that in this last week’s Creative Loafing, they did a profile of your own Vegetable Husband.  Thanks for giving me such a lovely job to talk about to the newspaper.  It was a great little plug for our local organic community.

We have added yet another farm to our community of folks that are growing for us this winter.  The parsnips, broccoli and cauliflower that you have are all from Neil at Taylorganics in Ellenwood.  Let me know what you think.  I can’t wait to dig into my first cauliflower of the season!

Some of you shared your stories with me of cooking the Chinese cabbage last week.  Please feel free to do this whenever the mood strikes you.  It is great information for me.  This week we are very fortunate to have salad greens once more with these freezing temperatures.  Jason and his crew at Full Moon Farms in Athens have kept the plants nice and covered so we can delight in the freshness over this holiday week.  Enjoy!

Below is the list of your goodies for this week:

Baby arugula
Mixed salad greens
Parsnips
Collards & Kale
Sweet potatoes
parsley
Broccoli flower & greens
cauliflower

The small collards also have a few Russian red kale leaves in the bag.  I harvested what was available to add to your collards.  It is always nice to mix the greens when cooking them.  Next week you will have much more mature collards for your New Year’s Day meal.  Come on, we could all use plenty of luck and money in 2009!

Namaste,

Margie Thorpe