Can you believe that two weeks have come and gone already?  Summer always flies by for us here at the farm.  We love all the hard work and energy it takes to produce this food.  This time of year is what we live for!  If you haven’t been out to our farm before we would love to have you for a visit.  We always suggest a call ahead to be sure someone is around to greet you. We have had a great summer so far and have gotten a lot of work done.  Yesterday the crew transplanted out corn, a little experiment we are trying. I seeded winter squash as well and what perfect timing with the nice soaking rain we got last night.

This week you will be enjoying salad turnips, lettuce mix, kale, beet greens, and garlic scapes.  The garden becomes more bountiful every day!  We have added kale to your bags today.  Aside from enjoying them simply steamed or in a stir fry try making Kale Casserole.  You will find a recipe at the top of the page under “Recipes”, “Kale” for our favorite version.  You can even mix the beet greens and kale for an extra delicious casserole!  If you want to get your children to eat kale as they would potato chips, try our recipe for Kale Chips.  This recipe is extremely simple and SO delicious.

Thank you mother nature for that rain, but we are happy to have the sun back.

This week in your CSA bag you’ll find spinach, lettuce mix, kale, salad turnips and green garlic!

Enjoy the salad turnips raw or cooked.  They are much sweeter and more tender than regular turnips and are milder than radishes.  And don’t forget about the greens– they can be steamed, sauteed, or eaten raw.

Please feel free to subscribe and post comments on this blog telling us what you enjoyed in your share and what you’d like more or less of.  If you’ve got great recipes using the CSA veggies please post and share them with the rest of the Grassland CSA customers!

Have a great week!

Hold on to your horses, CSAs are here!!

The weather has been beautiful here on Grassland Lane and things are shooting up in the gardens.  We’ve been busy planting and of course weeding!

This week in your CSA bags you will find lettuce mix, baby spinach, radishes, and green garlic.

For those of you who haven’t cooked with green garlic before, you can use it like you would use scallions.  They have a great garlicy taste and are a little sweet.  Try them in stir-fries, salads, or grilled– And remember to stay tuned to our ‘Recipes’ tab for more ways to use your delicious CSA veggies.

Take care and enjoy your week!

Last night we held our third annual Earth Dinner at the Old Mill Pub in Skowhegan.  As always it was a fabulous event with about 50 people and amazing food.  Everyone brings a dish made with as much local food as possible.  It is so awesome to see what we can find in Maine in April!  There was pumpkin goat meat penne, beef stew, scalloped potatoes, bison stew, egg salad, roasted duck, roasted root veggies, and salad with chives and feta cheese.  Don’t forget dessert. . . apple crisp, blueberry crisp, custard pie, chocolate cake with beets, AND chocolate milk.  What a decadent event!  We encourage everyone to have their own Earth Dinner this week in honor of Earth Day!  Even if it is just your own family around a dinner table of all local food. . . Make a statement!  Support your Earth by supporting foods that are grown consciously and travel only a short distance to reach your dinner table!

We don’t often keep up with this blog so if you are looking for more up to date info you should find us on Facebook.  Although, we are getting up for Spring, which seems to have arrived to Maine early this year.  We are starting seeds and looking for our seasonal interns.  We are also currently selling CSA shares as well!  For a copy of our CSA brochure you can email me at grasslandfarm@hotmail.com.  Our CSA shares are $400 and you get 22 weeks of fabulous vegetables worth at least $440, but is anything like last summer you get a whole lot more than that!  This blog site will be the space where we publish our CSA newsletter this coming season and today I’m going to start posting recipes, which will be available to all and advertised through our CSA.  We will do our best to keep in touch!

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