MOUNTAIN BOUNTY FARM NEWS
Week 5/52 of 2021
Dear Farm Members,
At the bottom of February, spring and summer and their notoriously glamorous produce can seem miles away. We dutifully roast our carrots and rutabagas, all the while yearning for the snap of a cucumber, sweet corn, or a melon, freshly balled. It's okay! Even the best of us occasionally succumb to winter vegetable fatigue. Still, the produce you'll find in your boxes shines in a light all its own. Carrots are at their sweetest from chilly nights and cold storage. Mustard, mizuna, arugula, and kale are mild and sweet from cold and rain. Winter specialties that we're unlikely to see at other times finally appear - romanesco, watermelon radishes, sprouts, and spring onions (to name a few).
Winter presents a golden opportunity to get to know and appreciate these vegetables that tend to play second during the main season. We do our best to balance out each week's box so that you'll have new and exciting seasonal options to try, along with a solid base of familiar and versatile staples.
This week, I'm including a short list of my favorite vegetable oriented cookbooks and blogs in the interest of inspiration. There are some truly incredible, innovative chefs out there putting time and energy into seasonal eating - you'll recognize some of them from our weekly recipes.
Have suggestions for great vegetable recipe resources that you don't see listed here? Email and let us know - we'd love to have them in the collection!
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COOKBOOKS
"Salt Fat Acid Heat" by Samin Nosrat
"Chez Panisse Vegetables" and "The Art of Simple Food" by Alice Waters
"Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables" by Abra Berens
"Six Seasons" by Joshua McFadden
"Dishing Up the Dirt" by Andrea Beamis
"The Moosewood Cookbook" by Molly Katzen
“The Vegetable Butcher” by Cara Mangini
WEBSITES/BLOGS
Kneehigh Farm Seasonal Recipes
THIS WEEK'S CSA CONTENTS
REGULAR BOX:
Carrots (Mountain Bounty Farm)
Sweet Potatoes (Atwater Farms)
Sunflower Greens (Natural Trading Company)
Cauliflower (Coke Farm)
Curly Kale (Coke Farm)
Onions (Pinnacle)
Broccoli (Riverdog Farm)
Watermelon Radishes (Riverdog Farm)
Spring Onions (Riverdog Farm)
Spinach (Riverdog Farm)
SMALL BOX:
Sweet Potatoes (Atwater Farms)
Sunflower Greens (Natural Trading Company)
Cauliflower (Coke Farm)
Curly Kale (Coke Farm)
Onions (Pinnacle)
Broccoli (Riverdog Farm)
Watermelon Radishes (Riverdog Farm)
We added a new feature! You can now see what's in your Vegetable Share from your Member Dashboard.
WINTER FRUIT SHARE: (provided by Sunset Ridge Fine Fruits in Newcastle, CA)
SEASONAL FLOWER SHARES: (provided by Little Boy Flowers)
Early Spring Flower shares are available now! These shares are 8 weeks starting in mid-March and feature spring blooms from poppies and anemones to tulips and ranunculus.
This year our partner farm Little Boy Flowers will also be offering a peony share for four weeks starting mid May. In these shares you will receive generous bunches of peonies which will fill your house with their amazing fragrance and long lasting blooms. These shares will surely be a favorite.
RECIPES
Watermelon Radish, Orange, and Goat Cheese Salad
Cauliflower Steaks and Puree with Pistachio-Caper Salsa
The Kale Salad that Started it All
Charred Spring Onions with Romesco Sauce
FSA (Farm Service Announcement)
We've added the ability to place yourself on hold from the Member Dashboard. Holds must be placed by Friday at 11pm of the week before you'd like to hold.
From your Member Dashboard, your Delivery Calendar is shown on the right side of your screen.
Click on the date you'd like to hold.
All of your subscriptions for this date will be listed.
Click the gray button titled "Hold Delivery"
You will get a confirmation email titled "Delivery Hold Notice" for the date you have selected.
How Holds Work:
VEGETABLE SHARES
If you paid for 25 deliveries, holds will extend your paid deliveries one week into the future.
If you pay every 4 deliveries, you will not be charged again until you receive 4 deliveries of your Vegetable CSA. You will not be charged for weeks your share is on hold.
FRUIT SHARES
If you paid for the full season, near the end of the fruit season, we will cash out credits to your cash account to be used towards your next renewal.
If you pau every 4 deliveries, you will not be charged again until you receive 4 deliveries of your Fruit CSA. You will not be charged for weeks your share is on hold.
FLOWER SHARES
If you paid for the full season, near the end of the flower season, we will cash out the credits to your cash account to be used towards your next renewal.
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