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tomatoes! – about 3 tomatoes each today, a mix of heirlooms and New Girl (the regular looking slicer).  These should be coming for a while. green beans – this will be the last of these green beans, but we’ll have romano beans coming on soon, maybe next week. lacinato kale head of garlic fingerling potatoes!… Continue reading 8/9/13

First of all, I want to share a website which I just found.  It is an entertaining look at what to do with some of those not-so-familiar CSA vegetables.  Some of them we have already passed now in the season, but you may see them again in the fall.  It does talk about chard which… Continue reading 8/5/13

In your box today you will find: Instead of a lettuce head you have some salad mix – a mix of arugula and lettuce leaves.  It should be spun or pat dry as soon as possible for longest storage (I don’t have a good way to fully dry the salad without bruising it). First tomatoes… Continue reading 8/1/13

Not one, not two, but THREE new items in the share today!  Green beans, fingerling potatoes, and green peppers.  The peppers are thinnings of what will become sweet yellow and red peppers.  I have to thin out usually just one pepper per plant that gets caught right in the center nook where the main stalk… Continue reading 7/29/13

Today’s share is similar to Monday’s, so check that posting out, with the exception of lacinato kale instead of swiss chard.  For the lettuce, you got either a head of the butterhead “Pirat,” or the romaine “Jericho.”  Monday got frisee or escarole, but you have escarole or radicchio.  They are all somewhat similar chicory salad… Continue reading 7/25/13

Eggplant is here!  Kohlrabi is back for a quick curtain call.  Green onions are on their last legs (I dont think you’ll see them anymore this year).  Carrots are yummy and the newer planting I started harvesting from today looks more productive than the first one.  Lettuce is back for the time being (Pirat is… Continue reading 7/22/13

Cully Neighborhood Farm will be part of the Get Dirty Farm Tour this Sunday July 28th, which will feature other NE Portland urban agriculture projects Sideyard Farm & Red Truck Urban Homestead, as well as Old Salt Marketplace and Good Keuken Cooking School. Read more about it here: https://www.facebook.com/events/201982039960119/ and here: http://getdirtytours72813.eventbrite.com/

basil LOTS of it! fresh garlic – straight out of the ground, uncured golden swiss chard – dang chard you are looking good right now! beets – gold and red radish – this is probably the last of the radishes until fall – they are a bit spicy, but if you slice them thin they… Continue reading 7/18/13

Sorry this posting is a little late — it was my birthday yesterday and I rushed off to dinner after CSA pickup and didn’t have time to put this together until now. In the share this Monday: – BASIL – a whole pound of genovese basil for your pesto-ing pleasure!  Combine with the garlic in… Continue reading 7/15/13

Today’s share is the same as Monday’s so take a look there — except the kale is lacinato (not rainbow lacinato).  For fava recipes, take a look back at the last few posts and below.  I think at this point the favas do need some cooking as the interior is a bit starchy on some… Continue reading 7/11/13

Here’s a fava bean recipe passed to me from CSA member Stephanie.  Thanks for passing it along Stephanie!  It’s from Lynne Rosetto Kaspar’s “Italian Country Table” cookbook.  Hopefully you can read it!

Thanks Ginny for this photo of today’s share! In the share : – cucumbers – – carrots – – zucchini – new this week! – fava beans – also for the first time for Monday shares.   Here is the basics on preparing them for use: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-pick-clean-and-prepare-84710. And here are a few ideas for how to… Continue reading 7/8/13

Though the forecast was for 97 today it looks like it only got up to 92 and I think I was able to keep everything from wilting, including myself.  Thanks to Ruth and Laurel for bringing me surprise refreshments today!  I have the best CSA members ever.  New today in the shares are cucumbers, fresh… Continue reading 7/1/13 – the heat is on

Please take a look at Monday’s blog post for ideas for fennel.  Here’s the link: 6/24/13 In your share today: carrots fennel (w/ tops) loads of lettuce – 2 heads of “winter density” the romaine, and 2 butterheads (you have either “optima” or “sylvesta”). hakurei turnips basil – just a bit — chop it up… Continue reading Fennel & lettuce party 6/27/13

how’s this for some bad lighting? in the shares today: – lettuce – 1 head of “Black-seeded Simpson,” that’s the really big bright green loose leaf lettuce, and 1 of “pirat” the red/green butterhead that you’ve had before. – carrots! – always get me excited.  The variety is Nelson. – fennel – with the tops… Continue reading 6/24/13

Today’s share includes rainbow lacinato kale, early wonder and touchstone gold beets, a head of napa cabbage, green onions, snap peas, radishes, and 4 lettuce heads – 3 mini heads called “australe” and 1 very delicate butterhead “pirat” which you’ve had before.  The napa cabbage is great in a slaw – be sure to wash… Continue reading 6/20/13

A little bit of summer’s flavor has entered the share this week in the form of a small amount of basil.  It needed to be pinched to encourage more branching so I threw the pinchings in the share.  Also new this week are snow peas, garlic scapes, napa cabbage, swiss chard, and a few new… Continue reading 6/17/13

Hey there folks.  Happy CSA day.  Today’s share is similar to Monday’s (6/10) but without kohlrabi, and with garlic scapes and radishes.  So take a look at the 6/10 post for most of the veggie info.  Garlic scapes will be coming to the Monday folks this coming Monday 6/17. Garlic scapes (aka whistles or whips)… Continue reading CSA 6/13/13

Today was a lovely day to spend harvesting for CSA – a cool clouded morning opened up into a nice breezy sunny 70 degree-ish day.  There are still quite a few large plantings to get in at the farm, namely winter squash, celeriac, and the outdoor peppers & eggplants.  Unfortunately most of my winter squash… Continue reading 6/10/13