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Week 5 from Valley Flora!

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Week 5 from Valley Flora! Broccoli! Cauliflower! Cabbage!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' at the Farm...
  • Broccoli at last!
  • New Produce: Cabbage, Bunch Carrots, Cauliflower
  • Flower Shares!
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What's In Your Share This Week:*
  • Baby Arugula
  • Green Cone Cabbage
  • Sugar Snap Peas
  • Head Lettuce
  • Strawberries
  • Cilantro
  • Broccoli
  • Bunch Carrots
  • Purple Cauliflower
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Nothing this week...
*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What Might be in your Share Next Week...
  • Carrots
  • Beets?
  • Broccoli
  • Dill
  • Lettuce
  • Strawberries
  • Snap Peas
  • Fava Beans
  • Red Ursa Kale
Broccoli, at last!
It's a few weeks late, but the broccoli is finally here! Our early plantings were set back by spring slug damage - an issue I've never seen before in any of the hundreds of broccoli plantings we've set out into the field over the years. I experienced a few worried weeks back in early May when I wondered if our first plantings were ever going to bounce back from their slug-razing, but a little warmth and long sunny days finally did the trick. Now, of course, we are headed into a broccoli pile-up of epic proportions since our early plantings are maturing in sync with our mid-season plantings. Which is all to say, it's time to bust out your favorite broccoli recipes. Broccoli Caesar anyone (sub your green cabbage for the Napa cabbage)? Or peruse this diverse collection of broccoli recipes from Epicurious.


Our spring broccoli season tends to run through July, so it'll be a staple in your share for at least the next month. Enjoy!
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New Produce
Bunch Carrots: Our first spring seeding of carrots also suffered a setback when we got six inches of cold rain over a few days in April. Some of the seed simply rotted in the ground, and some germinated and then got mowed down by - yes, you guessed it - slugs. We re-seeded as soon as we could but ultimately fell a few weeks shy of my goal to have freshly-dug carrots year-round on the farm. We're back in 'em now and if all goes according to plan, you should see carrots every single week for the rest of the season - even some rainbow carrots here and there!

Green Cone Cabbage: I love this whimsical cabbage variety for lots of reasons. As a farmer, I love how early it matures and how sure-heading and consistent it is. As an eater, I love how tender and sweet it is, and how easy it is to cut up in the kitchen. You'll see six or seven different types of cabbage from now until December, but only this one will make you want to get on You Tube and pull up some old Saturday Night Live Conehead skits.

Purple Cauliflower: This one snuck up on us! A week ago they were but lavender buttons wrapped in the cozy embrace of big-framed cauliflower leaves. Then, BAM!, on Tuesday we were filling bins with neon cauliflower (a lot can happen in a few long days around the summer solstice!). I love this variety because it stays purple when you cook it.
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Flower Shares!
Flower shares are officially on! If you are signed up for flowers, look for a separate weekly email from Amelia. Remember to take your bouquet home each week, and please only take flowers if you have signed up for them.
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The Farmstand is Open for Summer Hours!

 
Every Wednesday & Saturday
9 am to 2 pm
Rain or shine!

Fresh Produce
U-Pick Strawberries & Flowers
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags and u-pick containers if possible!

Directions to the Farm
For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:
 
Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.
 
Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients
 
Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.
 
Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.
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Week 4 from Valley Flora!

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Week 4 from Valley Flora! Happy Solstice!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' at the Farm...
 
  • The Solstice Salad Extravaganza!
  • New Produce: Peas, Basil, Chard
  • First Flower Shares Starting on Saturday!
  • Strawberries by the Flat and Great U-Pick!
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What's In Your Share This Week:*
  • Baby Spinach
  • Rainbow Chard
  • Sugar Snap Peas
  • Head Lettuce
  • Strawberries
  • Basil
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Broccolini
  • Asparagus
  • Lacinato Kale
  • Tokyo Bekana Pac Choi
  • Cilantro
*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What Might be in your Share Next Week...
  • Arugula
  • Cabbage
  • Broccoli
  • Baby Carrots?
  • Lettuce
  • Strawberries
  • Snap Peas
  • Cauliflower?
Solstice Salad Extravaganza
When you're eating direct from a farm like ours every crop has its peak moment during the year, which largely dictates what we all put in our bellies for the week. Instead of going to the grocery store with your list, you get to take your cue from the food that's coming out of Valley Flora soil right now. So might I suggest that this week you put a lot of salad in your belly. And maybe that of your friends as well. Always around the summer solstice we find ourselves cutting head lettuce the size of beach balls, bunching luxurious leaves of chard, and harvesting tender baby spinach and arugula galore. This is their moment. Which means its your moment to have a Solstice Salad Party and revel in the abundance of it all with friends and family.

A little tip: there's nothing like switching up your salad dressing to make you feel like you're eating a whole new thing. I was inspired by this recipe for Wedge Salad with Tahini Ranch, maybe made with the butterhead you're all getting this week instead of the little gem (or if you're really into excess, you could come to the farmstand and buy some little gem this week :)...). Also, with the help of few hearty toppings like nuts, avocado, and cheese, salad becomes the main course, and a filling one at that - no cooking required!
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Amelia Clements, Valley Flora Pea Queen
New Produce
You're getting a few of my favorite things this week: the first sugar snap peas, basil, and rainbow chard. Amelia, our pea-picking queen, is to thank for the Sugar Snaps: she single-handedly hauled in 120 pounds of peas on Monday in a record-breaking feat of pea-picking persistence. Remember that Sugar Snaps are not a shelling pea: you eat the whole sweet thing, pod and all, and they're especially fat and juicy this year.

Other than tomato plants, I can't think of anything that smells more like summer than basil, so how apropros that we're kicking off summer this week with your first installment. Add it to one of your bodacious salads this week!

And rainbow chard, so pretty it's worthy of a vase! I love a couple chard leaves in my morning smoothie, and a big heap of it steamed at dinner. It also makes a great lasagna filling in lieu of, or in addition to, spinach.
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Flower Shares Start on Saturday!
Amelia's flowers are beginning to bloom! She's going to kick off the Flower Share season this Saturday so Bandon and Port Orford flower members will receive their first bouquets. You have some lovely-smelling sweet peas to look forward to your first week!

If you are signed up for flowers, look for a separate email from Amelia later this week. Please only take flowers if you have signed up for them for the season!
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Strawberries by the Flat, and Great U-Pick!
Strawberry production is ramping up enough that I hope to be able to offer special order flats to our CSA members, delivered to your pickup site. If you would like to order, please email us your name, pickup site, daytime phone number (ideally a number I can text), and the quantity of flats you would like. We'll fill requests in the order received as the berries are available (we can't guarantee a specific delivery date but will contact you the day before your pickup to confirm once we have your berries).

The u-pick is also great right now, but is typically getting picked out before noon. Strawberry fever is running high - as always in June! We should have at least three to four good months of berries, so come pick whenever it's best for you!
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The Farmstand is Open for Summer Hours!

 
Every Wednesday & Saturday
9 am to 2 pm
Rain or shine!

Fresh Produce
U-Pick Strawberries & Flowers
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags and u-pick containers if possible!

Directions to the Farm
For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:
 
Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.
 
Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients
 
Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.
 
Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.
Copyright © 2019 Valley Flora, All rights reserved.


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