April 14th, 2010 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

This is when our community lights up with flowers and pollens and the ride to the farms this morning was absolutely beautiful!  We have so many varieties of greens in our basket this week even I have to pay attention to tell one from another.  The really small leaves in a bag is arugula coming from Truly Living Well Farms.  You will also find young mustard greens, a small curly leaf in a bag.  Have a taste of these raw – they are delicious cooked or in salad.

Your basket has a bunch of rainbow chard coming from Woodland Gardens this week.  They also grew the delicate micro greens for us once more.  I love these with an egg salad sandwich but please let me know how you are using them.  The spring onions and the bag of heirloom lettuce heads are from Taylor Organic Farm.  The onions are getting a little bigger so you will have less in the cluster.  Soon we can look forward to a harvest of green garlic, which will look very similar.  I will be sure to note the difference for you.  If you have never had the green garlic stalk, you are in for a treat in the coming weeks!   Below is your list of goodies for this week:

Heirloom Lettuces

arugula

Rainbow chard

Micro greens

Mustard greens

Young Collards with sprouts

Spring onions

Strawberries

With all the pollen still troubling so many people, I recommend that you drink loads of water everyday right now and enjoy a lighter diet.  We are enjoying the first strawberries from a GA farm.  I tasted one on the way back and the texture is beautiful although not quite as sweet as they were last year.  Maybe that won’t be true of all of them.  See what you think.  The veggies are all greens for salad and cooking so nothing will weigh you down this week.  Take good care of yourself, enjoy your surge of live food this week and remember, I am always happy to talk food!

Gratefully,

Margie Thorpe

April 7th, 2010 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

Hopefully you can see through the pollen to make your way home today.  I am amazed at how thick the air is this week.  Would we ever think a few months ago that we would actually wish for rain!?  Luckily for those of us that have been eating local for a while now, the allergies are not so bad.  I suppose if you take in your local pollens from your food all the time, your body adapts to these.

This week we have our first leeks of the season from Taylor Organics as well as more of their beets.  Woodland Gardens has grown bok choy and lettuce for us this week.  This butter lettuce looks so yummy, I can’t wait to wave a bottle of balsamic over it and call it supper!  Serenbe Farms just continue to surprise us with stretching the season for the sunchokes.  They dug and harvested one more time on these wonderful tasty root vegetables.  They are also providing us with the parsley this week, as well as our young collards and the kale.  If any of you need help figuring out which green is which, don’t hesitate to call or email me. Below is your list of goodies for this week:

Butterhead Lettuce

Beets

Leeks

Bok Choy

Sunchokes

Kale (you will have Russian red or curly kale)

Young Collards

Parsley

We are approaching Earth Day this month and I hope you can pat yourself on the back for being that much closer to your community by eating local and supporting your local farmers and local economy.  Maybe we can all think of one way we can challenge ourselves to do a little more.   I would love to hear about any and all events you are taking part in for Earth day.  The more I know about all of you, the more I want to know.  Enjoy your bounty this week and remember, I am always happy to talk food!

Gratefully,
Margie Thorpe