CSA report: Landisdale Farm, week 10
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Traditionally, CSA shares tend to get a little bigger this time of year - crops are really growing out of control. Weirdly, the share from Landisdale Farm has gotten smaller. Maybe they’re having some sort of crisis on the farm that I don’t know about.
Here is what’s in the share for this week:
- two small heads of butter lettuce
- 4 cucumbers
- 2 onions
- a couple handfuls of fingerling potatoes
- one sugar baby watermelon
- 6 white peaches (there were 7 but one of them was so rotten we threw it out immediately)
Coincidentally, last year when we were with Lancaster Farm Fresh’s CSA we also received a sugar baby watermelon in the share this week, along with many, many tomatoes. We haven’t seen any tomatoes in the Landisdale Farm share this year, although I hold out hope: one of their main specialty crops is allegedly heirloom tomatoes.
I now have over a dozen onions in the kitchen from the CSA share this Summer. Some of them from the earliest shares are starting to get a little soft, so action is now required. Kevin had a great idea a few months ago to make caramelized onions in advance - I’m going to make them and can them using this tutorial. I will also can the peaches right away, because the fruit we get from the CSA share tends to spoil within 24 hours.
The lettuce, as usual, will likely end up on the compost pile. I tried to give it away to Naomi this morning (she met up with me at Clark Park to pick up my spinning wheel) to no avail. Shouldn’t all the lettuce be bolting by now? Speaking of Naomi, she sent me a recipe for watermelon gazpacho for the sugar baby melon that came in the share.
Posted by Nicole on 08/09 at 03:55 PM
I have a half veggie share with Lancaster Farm Fresh this year, and do I have TOMATOES!!
There were so many grape tomatoes (in multiple colors) and slicing tomatoes, I gave some away to my staff & neighbors and still have some waiting to be used. I did use some of the grape tomatoes and some of the 10 ears of corn from this week to make a very colorful salsa.
I am very very happy with Lancaster’s CSA and although I was thinking of trying a different one next year, just for variety, I am pretty sure I will just resign up with them.
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I am noticing the same thing with this CSA..don’t know what is going on ...May I asked why you switched from Lancaster Farm Fresh, just looking into options for next year however not many places have pick up sites near me and it would be a much longer drive for me to go with Lancaster Farm Fresh but for better quantity and variety I may be willing to travel further as I love the whole idea of the CSA.