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Lots of eggplant today, so I’ve included a few eggplant recipes here… #1: eggplant bruschetta: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2010/08/eggplant-salad-toasts/ #2: grilled eggplant with caponata salsa: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/08/grilled-eggplant-with-caponata-salsa/ #3: baba ghanoush: http://www.food.com/recipe/baba-gannoujh-middle-eastern-eggplant-spread-100197 I plan to alternate eggplants and peppers in the shares for the next while, keeping tomatoes an every week item. I had planned to mow today but the mower wouldn’t start… Continue reading 9/9/13

Lots of tomatoes and peppers in this share.  The share is similar to Monday’s except for lacinato kale instead of chard, and different lettuces. Here’s a recipe for simple summer tomato sauce: from Deborah Madison’s “Vegetable Literacy”… makes about 2.5 cups.  The tomatoes don’t need to be paste tomatoes to make this sauce.  You will… Continue reading 9/6/13

Lots of sweet peppers in this share.  I didn’t grow any hot peppers for the CSA so don’t worry about that.  The long thin red ones are Jimmy Nardello, a sweet Italian frying pepper.  The yellows are called Gatherer’s Gold.  If you got a purplish one that’s called Iko Iko.  The rest are various shades… Continue reading 9/3/13

          Hey there veggie eaters, A little kohlrabi late curtain call today – hopefully you won’t find it woody – it has been in the ground a while.  Lots of peppers today!  Looks like September is going to be pepper month as per usual in this area.  All the peppers for… Continue reading 8/29/13 Thursday

woah, sorry this is so late in being posted.  Having a gig on Monday threw off my routine. 2 heads of lettuce today, a big bunch of lacinato kale, a couple eggplant (many of you got a japanese eggplant or two – the long skinny pink ones), a bunch of beets, siskiyou sweet onion, variety… Continue reading Monday 8/26

A colorful share today!  First sweet peppers, first sweet onion, first romano green beans, plus some regulars: tomatoes, carrots, rainbow lacinato kale, lettuce head, cucumbers, and zucchini. The peppers are all sweet.  I didn’t really grow hot peppers this year because some people don’t really go for them.  The onion is basically a Walla Walla… Continue reading 8/22/13

There are a few new items in Monday’s share.  Romano beans and sweet onions.  The romano beans are like a big green bean so you can treat them like that.  They are a little on the big side, but with a little cooking I think the flavor will be ok.  2 whole pounds of them! … Continue reading 8/19/13

First post from the field! In the share today: tomatoes over 2lbs! zucchini cucumbers including an Asian file beets finally some that are a decent size eggplant lettuce – 1 head Swiss chard only the gold garlic – 1 head basil See my last post for a baba ganoush recipe and for notes on tomatoes… Continue reading 8/15/13

Whoops! I forgot to post this til now – sorry about that.  A nice summer share Monday:  A good array of five tomatoes, 3 med/large eggplant, 2 regular cukes + 1 asian cuke, 1-2 zucchini, bunch of rainbow lacinato kale, head of lettuce (various types), bunch of beets, 1 head of garlic, and a bag… Continue reading 8/12/13

For those who don’t know, in addition to hosting Cully Neighborhood Farm, the lot behind Trinity Lutheran Church & School is home to the Cully Young Farmers Project, which engages Trinity Lutheran School students in grades K-8 in a hands-on garden education.  Please take a moment to check out our fundraising campaign to keep the… Continue reading Cully Young Farmers Project needs YOUR help!

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