CSA Weekly Report: Lancaster Farm Fresh

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Upon hearing that another dozen ears of corn would be present in the CSA share from Lancaster Farm Fresh today, I immediately set out to Williams-Sonoma to get my hands on their corn zipper gadget.  For the last few weeks I’ve been using a knife to cut the kernels off cobs of corn, but the corn goes all over the place.  After cutting kernels off of a dozen cobs, my kitchen is positively littered with corn.  And while my dog certainly loves to perform her clean up duty, I hate to lose all that corn.  Alas, Williams-Sonoma was out of the zipper, but had something better: the Good Grips corn stripper.  It’s sound like a rural burlesque show or something, but the stripper has a container that catches the corn as it’s removed from the cob.  I fully expect to be blissfully happy as I process this corn tonight.

That was a little off the subject, but yes, there were a dozen ears of sweet corn grown by Green Acres Organics in today’s Lancaster Farm Fresh share.  Additionally, there was:

• 3 red bell peppers grown by Meadow Valley Organics
• 6 red slicing tomatoes grown by Countryside Organics
• 2 heirloom tomatoes grown by Riverview Organics
• 1 spaghetti squash grown by Elm Tree Organics
• 1 pound onions grown by Scarecrow Hill Farm
• 2 delicata squash grown by Green Valley Organics
• 3 pound bag potatoes grown by Busy Bee Acres or Elm Tree Organics
• One of the following items: 1 bunch escarole grown by Scarecrow Hill Farm, 2 eggplant grown by Riverview Organics, or 1 bunch parsley grown by the Back 40 Ranch (I was lucky enough to get the eggplant)

I am particularly excited to see the spaghetti squash, which I plan to bake and combine with cheese (because everything is better with cheese!).

Coincidentally, I’m told by our site manager that there were supposed to be extra vegetables in the share this week to make up for being shorted a watermelon two weeks ago.  Alas, nothing extra.