Tuesday, May 26, 2009

CSA shares to begin shortly



This week we began eating our first five-minute-salads... Salads that were in the garden five minutes prior, that is!

And while we know you're awaiting your first week's share, we're doing the rain-dance here at The Dahlia Farm and knitting mantras for a delicate balance of temperate days and evenings. It won't be much longer...

Presently we're seeing pea tendrils, radish, arugula and mizuna ready for harvest, but rather than jumping into a false start, we're holding off just a little bit longer on the weekly shares.

Those of you who have not yet signed up for an egg share, may also want to consider this. Egg shares are available seasonally as well as annually and may be a full-share (one dozen per week) or half-shares (one dozen every other week). Our current egg-shareholders are enjoying wonderful, bright orange, high-doming, exceptionally flavorful eggs daily. In fact, my NEW favorite sandwich is a dropped egg (soft-boiled) on toast. Once-upon-a-time that sounded awfully bland, but these eggs are just so darned tastey. Here's what one MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE columnist had to say, and if you'd like to stop by a local cafe to sample The Dahlia Farm eggs, be sure to visit the Rockin' K Cafe right over in Bridgewater. You can also pick up a dozen or two this coming sunday when we return to the SOWA open market in Boston's South-end.

Until then, we'll keep rain-dancing and in the meantime, there's all this transplanting to do!

2 comments:

Mark Belanger said...

It might be nice to handout a few recipe ideas with the share. Many of us, err,, at least me,,, have never eaten a lot of this stuff before.

Salad ideas, cooking tips, etc.

TheDahliaFarm.com said...

Great idea! And if it happens that we don't get to the hand-outs in a timely manner, please be sure to visit our growing (no pun) "Garden Recipes" page, which can be easily accessed from the homepage at www.TheDahliaFarm.com