Veggie roll call

The weather has been incredible and we’ve finally been able to put our black fly nets away to enjoy the sun properly!


While our cabbages and peas are booming, the zucchinis and cucumbers are coming along nicely. Within your herb bags you’ll even find an edible orange flower from our zucchini plants; it has a squashy flavor and will look great atop your salad lettuce. As well, in the greenhouse, the tomatoes are downright intimidating, surpassing us all in height with multitudes of fist-sized green tomatoes. They’re on their way! The potatoes have even begun to flower so it won’t be long now.

Within your share bags, you’ll find:


* Snow peas
* ½ of a purple cabbage
* 1 bag of Egyptian onion tops (like spring onions)
* Swiss chard and kale mix
* 1 bag of Rosalind Red Premium broccoli leaves
* 1 head of either romaine or simpson lettuce
* 1 bundle of beet greens and turnips
* 1 bundle of Egyptian onions
* 1 herb bag with oregano, mint, sage, parsley, basil, mâche and an edible zucchini flower

A turn in the weather

The sun has been shining and the air has been hot and humid, so our plants are bursting! Our broccolis are the size of large fists and little cabbages are huddling in the lower fields. The squashes, peas and fava beans have even begun to flower. It won’t be long now and you’re share bags will be bursting with all of the above as well as plump green tomatoes and shortly after with bright red and yellow juicy ones.

greens and kholrabi that can't be beet

A juicy red beet
A crunchy kohlrabi
A sweet Hakurei turnip
A perfectly tart bundle of rhubarb
A few of our last sun chokes
A bag of ninja greens
A bag of salad greens
An herb bag including chocolate mint, cotton candy mint and spearmint (bring on the mojitos!)

We hope that all of you will remember to add your beet greens, kohlrabi greens as well as your turnip greens into any stir fry you make; they are essentially as good as the root they grow out of!

Welcome 2010 CSA Members!

This week we started our first harvest of delicious greens and roots for "full share" members. We will be in contact as veggies become available.
The harvest includes salad mix (lettuces, arugula, mizuna, ect), ninja stir-fry mix (kale, tai sai, pac choi, mustard..), green onion bunch, shosaku gobo, Jerusalem artichokes, radishes, and rhubarb.

Our CSA shares are full for this season - but please check us out as vendors at the St. John's Farmer's Market which starts June 5th, 9 am to 2 pm at the Lion’s Club Chalet on Bonaventure Avenue!

September 29 veggies - and that's it!

Well, that's it for your regularly scheduled veggies, friends. I hope it's been a delicious summer for you all!

In your bag this week you will find these lovely treats.

Full share:
:: buttercup squash
:: spaghetti squash
:: zucchini or crookneck squash or Costenata Romesqua (ridged zucchini)
:: potatoes
:: tomatoes (green, orange, and red)
:: cucumber
:: basil
:: beans
:: corn
:: leeks

Half share:
:: smaller quantities of the above

Buttercup squash is one of the loveliest winter squashes. You can bake it like its squash-ly cousins (cut in half, scoop out seeds, roast cut-side-down on a sheet in a 350F oven until flesh is easily pierced with a knife) and use it for soups, or as mash, put it into a casserole, make souffle, make pasta sauce... really, it's very versitile and delicious. One thing about winter squash is that you can swap them with one another in pretty much any recipe, so if you have a favourite recipe for acorn or butternut or hubbard squash, you can use your happy Portugal Cove buttercup in its place. You can also use it as a stand-in for pumpkin puree, like in this cookie recipe here.

Happy eating, and thank you for all your organic veggie love!