March 24th, 2010 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

Happy Sunshine!  This week is finally spring and it really feels like it, too.  The sun was out as I gathered all your food from our farmers this morning.  We are so lucky to have two crops from Woodland Gardens this week, the lettuce and chard are straight from Celia to us.  Your arugula is also a local Georgia-grown.  Some of you have the arugula with roots from Neva Farms and some of you have the first pick of arugula from Rashid’s farm in East Point.

As I warned last week, the carrots from Sara at Roots farm are no more.  The orange goodness will be missed in my cooking this week but it is a vibrant green diet for us.  We have sweet green cabbage from a nearby North Carolina farm that was harvested this week for us, and celery from our Florida neighbors.  To go with all this, your herb this week is flat parsley so maybe some lovely Italian dish is in order using the swiss chard and parsley.  All I can think about is fresh salads with lettuce arugula and parsley.

Many of you let me know how much you enjoyed the strawberries from last week.  I will keep looking for a fruit for us each week even if it is a little distance from our home farmers.  For all other items, I am anxious to return all of our money back to our farmers.  Below is your list of goodies for this week:

Lettuce

Rainbow chard

Sunchokes

Arugula

Celery

Green cabbage

Pink grapefruit

Flat leaf parsley

I Want you all to know that there is a wonderful Urban Picnic happening this Friday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Sweet Auburn Curb Market, 209 Edgewood Ave. SE, Atlanta, GA 30303.  If you work downtown, come on out and join us for some local healthy gourmet lunches to celebrate spring!  I will be there with my own picnic basket.  For more information, check out the website tomorrow.  I will post all the details there.  Let me know if you have other questions and remember, I am always happy to talk food!

Gratefully,

Margie Thorpe