Farm Share 2009: Week 1 Bonanza!

[surrealestate]

This year I am trying something new with my farm share. I am once again with Parker Farm (yay Steve!), but I am sharing it with a friend who has a share with Red Fire, which we are also sharing, along with a fruit share. I am hoping the results will be more variety, ease of trading away things I don't like, etc, and while it's a bit early to make the call since this is only the first week, it seems to be working well so far. My side of this week's haul is as follows:

• 1 bunch chicory
  
• 1 head romaine
  
• 1 head red leaf
  
• 1 head bok choy
  
• 1 bunch pea tendrils
  
• 1 bunch spinach
  
• 1 (smaller) head romaine lettuce
  
• 1/2 bunch new beets with greens
  
• 1/2 bunch Hakurei turnips
  
• 2/3 lb spinach
  
• 1/2 bunch kale
  
• 1/2 bunch green garlic
  
• 1 head broccoli
  
• 1/2 pint strawberries
  

A "bunch", of course, is a somewhat arbitrary measure and the sizes vary. In this case, the Red Fire bunches that were halved weren't that large to begin with whereas the Parker bunches were huge. (The chicory was approximately 2.5 times the size of my head and I could build a fortress of solitude in the lettuce.)

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

i have seriously got to hunt down pea tendrils. I wonder if the little asian grocery in Union has them.

[magid.livejournal.com]

There's a farm run by Asian guys who go to at least one of the local farmer's markets (though I don't remember which one(s) I've seen them at) who carry them.

Good luck.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I think I recall seeing them there, but could not swear to it.
Last time I bought them it was from Harvest, but it was also the first time I saw them there.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I recommend the Davis Square farmer's market, where, if guys magid mentioned are the ones I'm thinking of (who carry quite the assortment of hard-to-find veggies), they do show up there. I think more than one booth had pea tendrils when I popped in last time, too.

(Probably other FMs would work, too.)