Greetings from Dancing Hen Farm!
It is finally time.
CSA deliveries start next week.
That means ordering starts this week!
Ordering for Week 1 will begin Thursday, June 11 at 6 pm and will end
Sunday, June 14 at 6 pm. You will need
to log into our website using your email and password you registered with, in
order to make your selections. If you are
having difficulty, please contact the farm.
All items are available first come first serve! Happy picking!
Please note all OFF FARM CSA deliveries are on TUESDAY. We guarantee your box will be at our
drop-site after 4 pm. All ON FARM CSA
pick-ups will be on Thursday, with boxes available after 4 pm. Please watch for an additional email with the
details of your pick up site.
There will be NO buying club this week! We will be busy getting ready for Week 1 CSA
and Forks Farm Market. Please consider
visiting us at Forks Farm Market on Saturday.
If you wish to pre-order anything from us for pick up at market, please
email us.
On farm we are continuing to plant, plant, plant. Our fields are filling up. We have most of our tomatoes planted and peppers
and eggplants should go in soon. We
continue rotations of greens, beans, cucumbers and summer squash. Our greenhouse planting of cucumbers are
looking good and should be ready for harvest in the next few weeks. Summer squash has flowers and should be
setting fruit soon, so again we should have a harvest in a few weeks. Salad and cooking greens are sizing up
nicely. Shelling peas are filling out
and sugar snap and snow peas are flowering.
For Week 1, we are looking to harvest lots of greens. Cooking greens should include mustard, kale,
chard, tatsoi, napa cabbage, and turnip greens.
We should be able to harvest some arugula and Farmer Don is watching the
lettuce closely for size. We may have a surprise
harvest of some cucumbers out of our high tunnel. There will be some fresh herbs and a half
dozen eggs on the choice as well. Please
note Week 1 is an egg week for members purchasing an egg share. This half dozen would be in ADDITION to your
egg share.
This week I would like to talk a bit about mustard
greens. Mustard greens have a peppery/horse
radish flavor and can be cooked or added raw to salads. Cooking will mellow the peppery taste. Mustard greens are extremely nutritious, with
high levels of Vitamin K, C and A, as well as copper, manganese and
calcium. All this for only 36 calories
per one cup serving! If you have a
favorite massaged kale salad, try substituting mustard for the kale. For massaged salads, after massaging the
greens with salt and olive oil, I like to dress the salad with a bit of honey
dissolved in cider vinegar. Here is an
actual recipe for massaged mustard greens (http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/mustard_greens_salad.html
). Here is a basic braised mustard
greens recipe. Note this braising
technique can be used for any cooking green and the bacon is optional. Try varying the vinegar you use as well, I
often finish braised or sauted greens with a splash of balsamic vinegar. http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/9143-bacon-braised-mustard-greens
The farm does have a pinterest page, where I try and post
recipes and other helpful websites. I
have not been keeping it up to date over the winter months, but I will be
adding recipes as the season moves along.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me recipes. I will be trying to get them added in the
next few weeks. https://www.pinterest.com/dancinghencsa/
This Saturday we will be at Forks Farm Market (www.forksfarmmarket)
from 10 am to 2 pm. This is a really
great market on the Hopkins family farm.
This market is well known for its variety of vendors and products
available, well worth the drive. We will
be there with a variety of greens and transplants. If you come to market, please stop by our
table, say hello and see what we are harvesting!
We do still have a few CSA memberships available. Please contact the farm, so we can arrange
for your first delivery! If you have
signed up on our website and we have not received payment or you have not
contacted us concerning payment, you will not be able to sign onto our website
to order and you will not receive a box for week 1.
There are a multitude of reasons we do what we do, but most
important to us is to be able to share our harvest of nutrient dense vegetables
with our community. Thanks to each of
you for your support of our farm and local agriculture.
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