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Kilauea Community Agricultural Center continues to grow - Thegardenisland.com

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Kilauea Community Agricultural Center continues to grow
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KILAUEA — You can now get a box of fresh and local organic produce once a week and help support farming on Kauai's North Shore at the same time. It's the second season of the Community Supported Agriculture box program from Kilauea Community ...

Editorial: Taking advantage of the local food bounty - Fredericksburg.com

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Editorial: Taking advantage of the local food bounty
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What could be a game-changer in the farm-to-table concept is the Fredericksburg Food Co-op. The initiative to create a community-owned grocery store that sells local foods and natural and organic products recently surpassed its 800-member plateau, the ...

Week 11 from Valley Flora!

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Week 11 from Valley Flora! Eggplants! Jalapeños! The First Beans!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' on the Farm...
  • Bye-Bye Bumper Crop Broccoli, Hello Eggplant!
  • Tamales this Week
  • Albacore Tuna on the Line!
Eggplant time!
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What's Probably In Your Share This Week:*
  • Walla Walla Sweets
  • Broccoli
  • Carrots
  • Strawberries
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers
  • Tomatoes
  • Eggplant
  • Jalapeños
  • Head Lettuce
  • Parsley
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Romano Green Beans
*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...
  • Walla Walla Sweets
  • Lettuce
  • Carrots
  • Cucumbers
  • Zucchini
  • Strawberries
  • Sweet Corn
  • Tomatoes
  • Eggplant
Bye-Bye Bumper Crop Broccoli, Hello Eggplant!
Are you SO over the 3 pound heads of broccoli each week?! Well, this is the last of it - the grand finale to a record-breaking broccoli season. To put it in perspective: in all the past 10 years of keeping yield records on our broccoli plantings I have always said that 300 pounds from a single planting was awesome - as good as it gets. Well, we just harvested 775 pounds from the final bed. 

That's what two years of red clover cover crop will do to a field in its first season of cash crop production. Wow.

So whether you savor this last giant crown of broccoli this week or throw it over the fence to the livestock, my feelings won't be hurt in the least. I've moved on, heart and soul, to eggplant. Which, by the way, is starting with a bang this week. Three shiny, pendulous, Italian eggplants are tucked into your tote alongside the biggest jalapeño pepper I've ever seen. Broil those babies! Slice them up into rounds, brush them with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, and broil them until they are browned and blistered on both sides, flipping midway through their oven time. You can eat them with noodles or farro or rice or quinoa - any starch plane, really. Add some tomatoes to the mix, some fresh herbs, maybe a little crumbled feta cheese. I don't know what you call it, but it's dinner and a dang good one at that.

If you want to make something that actually has a name (and a recipe), dive into Epicurious's 51 Best Eggplant Recipes.
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Tamales this Week!
Tamale shares go out this week. If you are a tamale subscriber, look for your labeled share in the marked blue cooler. Please don't take tamales unless you signed up and paid for them. Thanks!
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Albacore Tuna on the Line
Tomatoes and eggplants may be in season here on terra firma, but albacore tuna is in season in our local ocean! Long-time CSA member and Port Orford fisherman, Skyler Ashdown, is out on his boat right now catching albacore. He'll be coming back with a hold full of fish in the next day or so. If you want to get some straight off the boat, contact Skyler via text: 541-294-4555. Price is $3/pound for whole fish, with a discount for bulk purchases.
What we do with albacore, after Skyler fillets it :)
Maybe that's why the broccoli heads were so big this year....
The Farmstand is Open for Summer Hours!
Every Wednesday and Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, rain or shine!

Fresh Produce
U-pick Strawberries
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags!

Please note our hours are slightly changed from year's past, closing at 2 pm instead of 3 pm

 
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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From culinary classes to CSA shares, this Falcon Heights nonprofit is fixing our food system - City Pages

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From culinary classes to CSA shares, this Falcon Heights nonprofit is fixing our food system
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The Good Acre's sleek red warehouse rises amid the green fields of the U of M's farm, just off Larpenteur Avenue in Falcon Heights. Enter its double doors to stacks of CSA boxes; black buckets of towering hydrangeas, dahlias, and echinacea; and jugs of ...

Enter an Arizona Design Utopia Redefining Urban Planning - Architectural Digest

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Enter an Arizona Design Utopia Redefining Urban Planning
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It's an "agrihood," where around 450 housing plots are arranged across 160 acres of land shared with a certified organic farm, commercial spaces, and community craftspeople. The outlier was born when engineer Joe Johnston found his family farmland in ...

Get high quality, low cost produce right on campus with Fresh FAVs! - Illinois State University News (press release) (blog)

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Get high quality, low cost produce right on campus with Fresh FAVs!
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The program is similar to a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program* in that produce is bundled together for convenient pickup each week. Since Fresh ... *Please note that produce available through Fresh FAVs is high quality, but not organic or ...

Register now for Sept. 8 Farm Tour of Lincoln County - Boothbay Register

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Register now for Sept. 8 Farm Tour of Lincoln County
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On Saturday, Sept. 8, the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation Farm Tour will hit the road. This year's tour puts the spotlight on farms in coastal Lincoln County. Participants will see conservation practices in action, learn about the benefits of ...

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