January 27th, 2010 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

For our new folks, I want to say we are changing and working hard each week to stay as local and healthy with our eating and our dollars.  This week we have done well for late January.  For my regulars, I want to tell you that the farms are coming back quickly after some tough winter weather.  We have lovely carrots from Roots Farm this week and for the first time; we will enjoy micro greens from Woodland Gardens.  As always, give me some feedback on this.   She is willing to grow more for us.

Each of you has some cooking greens, either a mixed bag of early kale or a bunch of red kale.  Either way, this is a wonderful dark leafy veggie for sautéing.  There are a few recipes on the website for kale and I have been chopping and adding my greens to soup stock lately.  It’s so easy and taste so great!  Serenbe Farms has harvested more sunchokes for us this week but I know these will be gone soon so enjoy them.  I know they look like a ginger root but you can easily eat them with the skins on.  I clean them and slice them for snacks.  Below is your list of goodies:

Sunchokes / Jerusalem artichokes

Carrots

Grape or cherry tomatoes

Green peppers

Red kale / Mixed greens

Butternut squash

Micro greens

Basil

The basil is a big surprise and coming from a Georgia farm, but the folks at Neva Farms are growing basil along with the arugula we enjoyed last week.  We are continuing to borrow tomatoes from our neighbors in Florida to round out our winter menu.  I see a tomato basil something in my near future!

On a very serious note, I will be arranging a drive to help the local organization ship supplies to Haiti in the coming weeks.  If you are interested in leaving items out for us to pick up, I will give more details next week.  Have a beautiful week and remember I am always happy to TALK FOOD!

Gratefully yours,

Margie Thorpe