May 12th, 2010 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

This week brings a great surprise from Woodland Gardens as we harvest heirloom tomatoes.  Woodland Gardens is also providing us with the beautiful leeks in your basket.  We are well on our way to onion season, so expect local Vidalia Onions in the coming weeks.  Neil at Taylorganics has provided us with fresh beets with tops, your kohlrabi, and the purple bok choy.  The kohlrabi can be eaten raw, shredded in a salad, or cooked.  I like to cube and roast mine.

Brooks Garcia at Moonbeam Farms has tender, yellow collards for us as well as your mixed heirloom lettuce.  Be sure to plan to wash these thoroughly.  They are only washed once at the farm.  These lettuces are delicate, and it’s best to have less handling on our end to have the best product for you.  Brooks also harvested more of the baby fennel for us this week.  This should be the last of their fennel, so enjoy the recipes posted on our website for this unusual flavor.  Unfortunately, we were not able to access strawberries again this week, but I promise you that we will have more soon.  Below is your list of goodies for this week:

Heirloom Lettuces

Purple Bok Choy

Yellow Collards

Leeks

Beets with Tops

Kohlrabi

Heirloom Tomatoes

Baby Fennel

Our farmers are entering into the warmer temperatures, and the food will be in abundance over the next few months.  If I can help you in any way plan the use of your veggies, please let me know.  As tomato season approaches in the summer, I plan to have canning get-togethers.  If this or any other food preparation workshops are of interest, I would love your feedback.  Many of you already order some of our extra items such as cheese and honey.  If there is some other product that you’ve been looking for locally, don’t hesitate to ask.  I might be looking for it too.  As always remember, I am always happy to talk food!

Gratefully,
Margie Thorpe