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CSA week 11: squash and cukes

CSA week 11: squash and cukes

CSA week 11 2020: heavy on the vine crops like squash and cucumbers. This is great news, since I want to do some pickling. Starting next week, we’re moving to Friday distributions, by the way.

Making pickles is easy!

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CSA week 10: summer veggies

CSA week 10: summer veggies

After a week’s hiatus for 2nd planting (did you know farmers are like hobbits? There’s 1st planting, yes, but what about 2nd planting?) CSA week 10 2020 starts summer distributions: crops that love warm or hot weather, often in great abundance.

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CSA week 9

CSA week 9

CSA week 9 2020 from Dancing Meadows Homestead brings us strawberries! Tiny sweet flavorful strawberries – they won’t last long, because we’ll eat them right away.

We have the last of the peas today, too. The weather forecast calls for a week or more of really hot weather – and peas hate that.

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Soup with Garlic Scapes

Soup with Garlic Scapes

Soup with garlic scapes? Of course! You can make a lovely soup that features garlic scapes and green garlic. This makes a delicate soup that’s unexpectedly mild, and reminiscent of a creamy asparagus soup. Don’t be afraid of the scapes!

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Fresh Asparagus Soup

Fresh Asparagus Soup

When you have good ingredients, you can make good things. When you have great ingredients, you can produce great things. This creamy fresh asparagus soup is one of the best things that’s come from my kitchen in recent weeks.

It’s been a long cool spring,

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Salads from the CSA

Salads from the CSA

We’re moving into warmer weather, and of course the CSA will be bringing us more veggies. Every week  – usually on Friday – I post about this week’s produce box, and how I might use it.

In this post,

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CSA week 5: still green!

CSA week 5: still green!

Finally, warm weather! We went from a long cool wet spring right into early summer, according to the thermometer. I’m expecting to see some different crops in a week or so, but this week, CSA week 5 2020 gives us a box that’s very green.

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CSA week 4: spinach & other greens

CSA week 4: spinach & other greens

Today we fetched our goodies from the farm. In CSA week 4 2020, our box gives us a double-sized bowl of spinach! It’s all green this week, typical for early season stuff. There’s asparagus, as well – we’re certainly not tired of asparagus yet!

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