Early Season Week 2

It isn't often that we eat a CSA share.  Typically, I just grab whatever culls are around unless I have my heart set on something special.   This time of year there isn't a lot of random stuff coming back from market so I harvested an extra of everything and we had all the same things in our fridge that you did this past week. I thought the salad was extra primo and the spinach not as good (but still yummy), as it was a couple weeks ago.  It was the last picking from the greenhouse planting and it is loosing its sweetness and developing more of an oxalic acid taste(next week's box will have field grown spinach in it).  Taste and textural differences between plantings is most often related to plant maturity, the weather and the nutrient level in the soil.  When all three of those things are in alignment it makes for epic food.  This week the bok choy looks like it is going to be epic - mild, juicy, crunchy and delicious.

Enjoy the produce.

Lacinato Kale - the first picking of spring.
Bok Choy
Arugula or Mizuna - not sure which of these we will go with
Bunched Turnips
Green Garlic - We plant garlic close together for green garlic and harvested like scallions, you can use the entire thing.  It is milder than dried down garlic.
Salad Mix - all lettuce this week
Little Gem Lettuce

Early Season Week 1

Salad
Radishes 
Turnips - good raw or cooked - greens are also edible.
Spinach
Beet Greens - A spring time favorite on our farm.  Trim off the stringy tap root, leaving the beet root base and wash well.  We typically chop and saute them.
Mustard Bunches

Next week we should have some green garlic in the bags!  Have a great week.