DC Harvest

The perils of CSA deliveries.
We had seedless sugar baby watermelons last week. I managed to drop only one of them; I opened the back of the van and it escaped. For the delivery I laid all of them out on the grass and let people pick theirs. One shareholder came around with, as he usually [...]

My stop was and is the only one to get fennel. The 25 or so bulbs were the sole survivors of the planting.
What did you get this week?

We’re finally up to All You Can Eat basil at our stop. Many shareholders start making and freezing pesto as soon as or even before we reach this point. We have had up to six quarts of it in our freezer for the Winter. It is an easy enough sauce to make; we use it [...]

Here’s what Bull Run gave out this week:
Potatoes
Kohlrabi
Garlic
Celery
basil
Thai basil
Tomatillos
Peaches
Sorrel

Here’s what we got this week:

Kohlrabi
cabbage
Red lettuce mix
garlic scapes
basil
radishes
purslane
shiso
epazote
Ornamental hot pepper plant

Early in his CSA career, our farmer would sometimes have to glean the fields of purslane to make shares. Now he grows it from seed.
Purslane is a succulent, tangy green best known for being a weed.  But it is a very tasty weed. Stems [...]