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Peas on Earth!
Celebrating flavour
Hey Food Friends,
Email is coming to you a little late today and by now you've probably discovered all the bulb, root, stem, leaf, flower, and fruit in your share! It's been a super busy time at the farm as things are growing much better in the heat!
Along with all the veggies you will find a flyer for the I Am A Seed Saver campaign on behalf of USC Canada. We are celebrating local seeds for many reasons -- as eaters, we want the best tasting crops! As growers, we want varieties that can adapt to our (very challenging and changing!) local conditions , thrive in our organic production system, and can be saved from one year to the next.
Supporting small scale seed saving does just that and more!
Seed to Spoon is participating as growers in this campaign. We are growing out two crops to be included in a new regional seed bank at Dalhousie University, which aims to make better seed available for small scale producers in Atlantic Canada. Our two contributions will be "Pink Beauty" radishes, which are just setting pods right now and "Moravsky Div" which translates as "Wonder from Moravia" a red tomato from Czechoslovakia that does amazingly well in our greenhouse - many of you will have it in your share this week.
We also wanted to make a special shout out to a couple of new additions to the share - bulbs of garlic and shelling peas!
The garlic variety this week is "Northern Quebec". The garlic is still "green", so it hasn't formed a papery wrapper that you are familiar with -- it's amazingly juicy and flavourful. We are just starting to harvest garlic, and this is an earlier variety.. in contrast the scapes are just ripening from the "New York White" which takes longer to mature.
The shelling peas are something we don't often see for sale these days. Having to shell the pods is worth the flavour - what a treat!
Read on for your share list below & t hank you for eating with us,
Nadya & Sarah
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In the LARGE share:
Potatoes - 580g Norland red potatoes, like new! very
Huge bunch of parsley, Italian or curly leaf
Kohlrabi & Red Cabbage,
Snap peas
Shelling peas
Swiss Chard
Head Lettuce - Super crunchy iceberg lettuce
Tomato - Mix of either Zolotoe Zupola (yellow), Pervaya Lubov (pink), Moravsky Div (red), Sungold (small orange - store at room temp for best flavour!
Cucumber and/or Zucchini - finally!
Garlic - 2 bulbs of Northern Quebec & 4 scapes
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In the SMALL share:
Potatoes - 450g Norland red potatoes, like new! very
Bunch of parsley, Italian or curly leaf
Broccoli and/or Kohlrabi,
Shelling peas
Swiss Chard
Head Lettuce - Super crunchy iceberg lettuce
Tomato - A sweet Moravsky Div (red)
Garlic - 1 bulb of Northern Quebec & 2 scapes
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As usual, everything in your share is "farm fresh" so please give it a little wash before you enjoy! Doing it all on the first evening keeps there from being a scary unopened bag hiding out in the back of the fridge. But, your greens should last a long time in plastic. Blanching & freezing greens like Swiss chard when they are abundant now will be a real treat in February!
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