April 21st, 2010 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

The spring weather is paying off in the fields. We are seeing nice growth in several new veggies. This week you better be ready for loads of sauté and salad. We have a wonderful bouquet of braising greens from Brooks Garcia’s farm. There are three heads of greens from his farm; a bok choy, a lighter green leaf, which is a flowering Chinese cabbage, and the third head is tyfon greens and will have a radish root at the end. Enjoy the green and the root!

The big surprise was when Woodland Gardens told me they had a large European cucumber for each of us. What a treat! They also provided their young bok choy so you will have several varieties of Asian greens to try. Your arugula and garlic chives were harvested this morning from Serenbe Farms and the van smelled so good the rest of the drive (smiles). I can’t wait for my dinner tonight of something with butter and garlic chives, for sure! The lettuces are coming on strong so we will enjoy fresh lettuce for another couple of weeks. This week our lettuce is from Taylor Organics here in Ellenwood GA.  Below is your list of goodies for this week:

Heirloom Lettuces

Arugula

Spring onions

Braising greens (bok choy, flowering Chinese cabbage, and tyfon greens w/root)

Bok choy

European cucumber

Easter egg radishes

Garlic chives

I was fortunate enough to get out and celebrate a brand new office for our Georgia Organics office this last week. Several farmers and sustainable local food companies were represented. I am considering inviting more local companies to join our list of extras that we pick up regularly. Feel free to let me know anything in particular that you would like to find. We also are welcoming Jason Mann’s new restaurant, Farm Burger, in Decatur which opens today with sustainable, locally-raised meat and veggies. Check out the link on our website. That’s all for now remember, I am always happy to talk food!

Gratefully,

Margie Thorpe