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Sport Hill Farm 2011 CSA – Week 7

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Yet another fabulous food week. Here’s the bounty from week 7 of my Sport Hill Farm CSA:

  • 1 bag of lettuce mix: lettuce, lemon basil, and arugula
  • 4-5 zucchini (plus big ones for free!)
  • 1 bunch of haruki turnips
  • 1 bunch of scallions
  • 1 bunch of Swiss chard
  • 1 bag of golden beets
  • choice of a bunch of collards or kale
  • bonus: bunch of radishes from Long Island, NY

Hooray–more zucchini! I can hardly wait to see how creative Google can make me.

Haruki turnips can be eaten raw or cooked. I tried one raw and it was quite nice—a little like a radish, but not the heat.

Kendall taking time to smell the sunflowers

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Sport Hill Farm garlic drying

 

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To market, to market

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The Bethel Farmer’s Market may have started out low key, but it’s picking up in week two—a few more vendors and a lot more fun this week.

The Maple Bank Farm folks are definitely the ringleaders of the jocularity.

Notice Jenny's bling: a real garlic scape.

Daffodil Hill Growers grew the first hot peppers I’ve seen at the markets this season (thanks to a mislabeled seed packet).

These have a nice heat zing, even without the seeds.

Don Taylor Farms of Danbury brought the first sweet corn of the season, grown in Windsor, CT.

You had to go to the Maple Bank Farm stand to get these beauties.

For those not acquainted with the seasonal treat known as squash blossoms, just dip the flowers in a little batter and pan-fry in some olive oil until golden brown.

And after a hard day of grocery shopping/foraging, time to kick back and enjoy.

Not local, not real, but definitely real local fun.

The Woodbury SummerFest concert, with the Cast of Beatlemania and the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, was held outdoors at Hollow Park in Woodbury, CT.

For the picnic dinner, I brought egg salad made from Woodbury Laid Eggs, a baguette from Ovens of France, an assortment of Cato Corner Farm cheeses, North Fork potato chips (fromArtisan Made, Northeast), and Sharpe Hill‘s Cabernet Franc wine.

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Grain run

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I discovered that my wheat flour and corn meal supplies were running perilously low. I pulled everything out of the freezer, convinced that there had to be another bag in there at the bottom, but there wasn’t. Happily, Wild Hive (bakery, cafe, micro mill, and local food outlet) was open on New Year’s Day, having a local buffet brunch in two-seatings.

Slow Bread
I broke for bread

With the temperature being an unseasonably mild 54° here in the northeast, it was a beautiful day to make my periodic pilgrimage to Wild Hive country.

The place was packed—a great sign! And speaking of great signs, I love theirs.

I left with a LOT of flour and corn meal (and Ronnybrook butter and Cayuga Pure Organics beans and NY state cheese). But mostly flour. I couldn’t imagine a better way to start off the new year.

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Saturday’s Forage 5/16/2010

This week’s forage technically began on Friday evening on the ride home from work. Sport Hill Farm was still open so I picked up:

  • arugula
  • spinach
  • a lovely potted lavender plant

The new barn at Sport Hill is really coming along. It is beautiful. Sorry, no photo since this was an impromptu visit! Next time.

Cecelia is up for a weekend of wine trailing for the 2010 Passport contest, so we planned on an abbreviated Saturday forage.

Serendipitous score: at the Newtown Deli, there’s a (newish) fresh meat market called Butcher’s Best Market. Their lamb and pork are from local farms. I scored

  • lamb chops from Sepe Farm, Sandy Hook, CT
  • a container of lard, made from Rowland Farm hogs

At the New Milford Farmers Market (on the green, Saturdays from 9 AM to noon), I scored:

Lots of folks at this market were selling seedling starts for the garden.

At the Hopkins Vineyard Barrel Tasting (more on that in another post), I scored

At Chapel Hill Farm in Sherman, I scored blueberry and peach jam.

At Bluestone Farm, I scored

  • Cavolo Nero starts (Tuscan Kale)
  • Maple syrup (2010)

And at New Morning Natural Foods, I scored:

And that was it!

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