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Week 9 from Valley Flora!

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Week 9 from Valley Flora! Walla Walla Sweets! Tomatoes! Cukes!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' on the Farm...
  • Holy OnionTomatoCukeBeetCabbage Batman!
  • Reading Reminder :)
 
Cirque du Valley Flora! Pippin, Cleo, Uma and Jules, bottom to top.
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What's Probably In Your Share This Week:*
  • Walla Walla Sweet Onions
  • Broccoli
  • Red Cabbage
  • Carrots
  • Head Lettuce
  • Strawberries
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers
  • Tomatoes
  • Beets
  • Dill
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Spinach/Arugula
*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...
  • Broccoli
  • Red Onions
  • Lettuce
  • Carrots
  • Cucumbers
  • Zucchini
  • Strawberries
  • Potatoes
  • Tomatoes
Holy OnionTomatoesCukeBeetCabbage Batman!
Whoa, dense food!

This week's tote is a crescendo of some things late, some things early and others right on time. Tomatoes: early. Beets and Walla Wallas: late. Red Cabbage: spot on.

All I could see while we were packing Harvest Baskets yesterday was a chopped salad with tomatoes and cucumber and carrots and Walla Wallas - some iteration of Greek salad. It's one of my favorite things to eat and as a result I anticipate and crave this collision of farm food all year. It's the kind of of salad that can easily become a stand-alone dinner, especially if you pump it up with some nuts, or beans or cheese to give it more protein oompf.

Chef and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi really made me fall in love with the idea thanks to this recipe: Spiced Chickpea with Fresh Vegetable Salad. I improvise everytime I make it, adding whatever choppable veg I have on hand, and usually omitting the radishes since I never have them growing on the farm at the same time as cucumbers and tomatoes. The spiced chickpeas are addictive. Come eggplant time (soon!), I like to broil eggplant slabs, chop them up and add them to the salad as well. If you don't own any of Ottolenghi's cookbooks, this is the right season to buy one (or four). Jerusalem is a great place to start. He excels at all things vegetable (and meat) and will teach you how to make a mean shawarma.

 
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Reading Reminder
Just a gentle nudge reminding everyone to read the signage and labels at your pickup site each time. There has a been a rash of salad, egg and flower share mix-ups recently. Also, and just as importantly, if someone is picking up on your behalf, S-P-E-L-L it out for them in all caps bold. Tell them what to take, but also tell them explicitly what NOT to take. Proxy pick-ups are the culprit behind missing salad/egg/flower shares 99% of the time. Thanks for your help from my beleaguered detective desk.

 
One of the fields in the New Nine, thick with winter squash, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, kale, chard and purple-flowering Phacelia, a cover crop that we inter-planted with our cash crops to create habitat for beneficial insects. The bees love it! White clover is also inter-seeded in the pathways between single row crops to create a living (and flowering) mulch between rows.
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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Farm-to-Table benefit supports art and agriculture - Benitolink: San Benito County News

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Benitolink: San Benito County News

Farm-to-Table benefit supports art and agriculture
Benitolink: San Benito County News
“There were people here supporting the arts,” said Herbert, whose family owns Herbert Family Organic Farm. “There were people here supporting local agriculture. To get farmers who grow the food to join the people to share a meal with them is awesome.”.

COLUMN: From farm to table, local produce boxes find a way into our kitchens — and hearts - Squamish Chief

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COLUMN: From farm to table, local produce boxes find a way into our kitchens — and hearts
Squamish Chief
... to say aside from historically when it was out of utter necessity. Over the past half a century we have slowly moved away from our roots and today most of us don't have a clue what it means to grow delicious, nutritious food and eat local, organic ...

Award presented to researcher who has been cleaning up the soil of Xochimilco - Mexico News Daily

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Award presented to researcher who has been cleaning up the soil of Xochimilco
Mexico News Daily
The organization grows organic produce for big-name local chefs like Eduardo García (Máximo Bistrot and Lalo!) and Enrique Olvera (Pujol) and runs a local CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) program in Mexico City. Working with five other farmers, ...

Berkshire Grown farm tour shows collaboration among area farmers is alive and well - theberkshireedge.com

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Berkshire Grown farm tour shows collaboration among area farmers is alive and well
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South Egremont — The simple fact that Bill and Paul Turner of Turner Farms provide hay to Will Conklin of Sky View Farm and manure to Elizabeth Keen of Indian Line Farm is enough to prove that collaboration among farmers in the area is alive and well ...

A new breed of urban growers bring hyper-local produce to Columbus - Columbus Alive

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A new breed of urban growers bring hyper-local produce to Columbus
Columbus Alive
Specifically, it's the Peace Love and Freedom Farm, a lovely third-of-an-acre garden that has earned a Certified Organic accreditation from the United States Department of Agriculture. Farmer Karcic, who is also a budding filmmaker and longtime ...

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