11/9/2023 0 Comments Hesperides organica![]() ![]() When you join our CSA - you automatically become part of something larger than yourself and help push local foods forward. Our convenient community pick up locations are managed by volunteers - al of which are deeply dedicated to advancing the local foods movement. ![]() Our Community Supported Agriculture program has members throughout Colorado and Wyoming. We are deeply committed to growing healthy, delicious food and to being responsible stewards of our land and the people that work on our farm. (804) Family Farms lies in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, just south of the Wyoming border. Visit Family Heritage Farms' Facebook Page This food is grown fresh in your area what a great way to do your part! And there is no greater satisfaction for this organic farmer than to know he is providing clean, healthy food to the members of this community.Ĭategories: Products Farms Produce Farms CSA Farms Fruits & Vegetables Urban Farming Plants & Flowers Gourds CSA Fiber Farms Herb Plants There is no better way to be certain of where your food comes from and to support your local economy than by participating in your neighborhood farm’s CSA program. We are very excited to have begun our new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program this season in which our neighbors can support our farm in exchange for a weekly share of our harvest. You can find a small selection of our produce at Whole Foods Grocery Stores across the Valley and a full selection at the Scottsdale Farmers Market on Saturdays. We grow 100% of the produce we offer and are extremely proud to be certified organic. ![]() We have been farming in sunny Arizona since 1995. More details to follow.Blue Sky Organic Farms is a family farm located in Litchfield, AZ. The plants (for those who ordered them) will be arriving Tuesday, May 17. (The first pickup is on Tuesday, May 24.more details in the next email). We will try to tame the wild weeds in whatever way we can to bring you the broccolis and cucumbers that we have come to expect from Shop Rite (because we must shop right musn't we?) and we will sneek in the weeds of the wild which often become our very favorite "vegetables." This season we will bring you whatever this season will bring. So, we thank you for joining our CSA for this season. For if you miss it, you'll have to wait an entire year to seize the day. How many servings of dandelion do you need a year? Well, just look out your window and see when they sprout. So I now think of eating vegetables not servings per day but servings per season. ![]() It is divine! Just one spoonful is a rush.Īnd maybe that's enough. And I made a wonderful creamy horseradish dip with sour cream (what's not to love about that?) and horseradish. (And this from someone who chopping onions never bothers me). After digging it up in my garden and looking at a few youtube videos (ain't technology wonderful?) I washed it, peeled it, grated it, and cried and cried. This is also the first season that I have been affected by pollen - and allergies.and horseradish is just the tonic. This is the first year that they have taken "root" in my garden. And there is something about looking forward to horseradish. There is a reason that the spring greens are so green and tonic. Lovage is second only to capers in its quercetin content."īut all kidding aside, there is something to eating seasonally. In the UK, lovage cordial was traditionally mixed with brandy in the ratio of 2:1 as a winter drink. The seeds can be used as a spice, similar to fennel seeds. Lovage tea can be applied to wounds as an antiseptic, or drunk to stimulate digestion. "The leaves can be used in salads, or to make soup, and the roots can be eaten as a vegetable or grated for use in salads. And the overwintered vegetables are coming up.spinach, rhubarb, sorrel (sour grass), dandelion greens, scallions, lovage (oh? you don't know lovage? Lovage is an erect herbaceous perennial plant. We're are looking forward to another great year!ĭespite the dire reports of shortages of food due to flooding, droughts, rising cost of petroleum, dare I say climate change? we still have been able to get a lot planted - onions, leeks, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli (lots of it because it was requested), kale (the King of vegetables, at least in terms of nutrition), radishes (because they grow so well in the black dirt.the farm I volunteered on had an entire building that is still called to this day "The Radish House"), collard greens, Brussels sprouts (always a Capital vegetable), cilantro (my very favorite herb and not just because it detoxifies mercury (I used to play with mercury as a child, and no I'm not kidding (long story) and bok choy, carrots and sugar snap peas. Thanks to everyone who has joined our CSA for 2011. ![]()
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