CSA Box for Wednesday May 26 2010--some farm news

This week you have Garlic Scapes. These are produced by the plant as it begins to make heads. Your garlic has been growing since last November and will have full sized heads in a couple of weeks. Garlic scapes can be chopped and used like garlic.  The little arrow shaped piece at the top is where a flower would appear if we let it do this.  We do not because it detracts from the production of the head.

 This week's recommended recipes contain some of my sentimental favorites.  Ida Galinisky's Beets is a recipe handed down to me by my friend David Galinsky.  His mother got this recipe during WWII from a radio program on how to use the vegetables that people were growing in Victory Gardens.  If you do not make that, try the Beet and Potato Salad. The Beet and Potato Salad also uses a dressing recipe that came from WWII via my mother-in-law Cele Projan.  She called it WWII Salad Dressing in the cooking notes I got from her—coaching me on how to cook for her son.  These two recipes have turned beet haters into beet eaters.

Harland's Creek Farm was the site of a wedding this past weekend.  We prepared the flowers for the wedding, and it was held in our parterre which is near the chicken pasture. A key feature of the event was our rooster.  As the groom's father and cousin were singing to the couple, the rooster decided to join in and crowed every time they paused.

Best regards to all,

Judy for all the farmers