First Charlestown Farm CSA Pickup

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Yesterday was the first pick up for Charlestown Farm’s CSA. The ‘box’ included 1/4 lb Asian greens, 1/4 arugula, 1/2 lb mixed loose leaf lettuce, 1 head of butter lettuce, and 1 1/2 quarts of fresh strawberries.  The U-Pick items included mint (there’s two bunches of chocolate mint in the front of the photo), sage, oregano, rosemary, and thyme. I only picked mint as the sage, oregano, rosemary, and thyme in our garden are growing like crazy.  Behind the greens you can just barely see the half dozen Egyptian Walking Onions that I brought home as well. One of the farm’s neighbors dropped off a big box of them and the people at Charlestown were nice enough to share. 

We’re attempting to grow Egyptian walking onions in our garden this year, but the squirrels apparently really like the bulbs and they dug up and ate the vast majority of what we planted.  So I wasn’t expecting to get to try them at all until next year!

We’ll be adding the Asian greens and lettuce to our own greens for salads this week, and I’m planning on trying a variation of tabbouleh with arugula instead of parsley.  The strawberries will get eaten long before they’d have a chance to make it into any recipe.