CSA Season 2009, Week 4
3Jul2009 Filed under: Farm Reports Author: Art D.
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 and leaves can be used, preferably raw, to add a bit of a lemony flavor to salads. Some sources say that this, and not parsley, was the green originally used in tabbouleh.
- Tags: csa, local produce, locavore, purslane, washington dc
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DC Harvest is a family effort by Art Drauglis, Carly Lesser (aka Ketzirah) and Amy Monsarrat. Amy has a long history of environmental activism and social justice work and Ketzirah has strong focus on the spiritual side of local and seasonal eating. Art works for a CSA, cans, gardens, and is a rockin farm-to-table cook. All three have made the DC region their home for a decade (or more) and know from experience the difference eating locally can make.
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