A note from CSA Pasture, our meat/ dairy providers about using PayPal to make payments.

Dear CSA Members,

Please read this is if you use or want to use Paypal to pay your delivery of additional products from the farms at Pastured Meat and Poultry. We have noted that in the past months there has been some a lot of confusion
regarding the Paypal option for payment of invoices. We would like to try to clear up the steps of the process.
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This Week’s Share

Share information is posted on Tuesday morning on GE’s website and I pull that for this listing. The contents of the veggie boxes can change, depending on the day of the week. They update their list almost daily to reflect the next day’s deliveries. If you wish to check their website for the harvest information closer to Thursday’s delivery click here.

Click here for our storage tips page.

ESCAROLE | Qty: 1 head
The inner leaves of this bitter green are delicious in salads. The outer leaves are great sauteed, or you can try one of the recipes below. If you are going to eat it raw, we recommend soaking in cold water for 1/2 hour to reduce the bitterness.
RED OAKLEAF LETTUCE | Qty: 1 head
A beautiful lettuce with interesting shaped leaves.
CABBAGE | Qty: 1 piece or 1 bag
I love cabbage salads in the summer. Try slicing a whole head of cabbage thinly and tossing in a bowl with toasted sesame oil, sesame seeds, sea salt (or umeboshi vinegar), thinly sliced red onion, and minced garlic.
COLLARDS | Qty: 1 head
A wonderful southern green. Cook like you would kale or any other green. Sauteed with garlic, added to soups, or search our recipe page for recipes from past newsletters.
SWISS CHARD | Qty: 1 head
FENNEL | Qty: 2 bulbs
Fennel bulbs are delicious when braised. Try this week’s recipe! (Click on above link to GE’s website.)
BASIL | Qty: 1 bunch
RED BEETS | Qty: 1 bunch
You can eat the beet roots AND the beet greens!

Vermicomposting Event this Thursday!

Strawberry bus pictures!

Cabbage, Fennel and Beet recipes for this week’s share

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This Week’s Share

see our storage tips page for info on the best ways to store your veggies.

Garlic Scapes? Kohlrabi? What are they and how can I cook them?

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On June 13 a delegation of Astoria CSA members took the card you’ve been signing and a box of Golden Earthworm veggies to City Councilman Vallone to thank him for his support of our programming. We talked about organic food and invited him to come out and see us in action on the 26th. We hope to see him there!

Some interesting links to food advocacy issues. Some old, some new(ish).

Farm Subsidies: NYTIMES, Weed It and Reap. MICHAEL POLLAN. Published: November 4, 2007

Food Security: World Hunger Year Learning Center. Family Farms Introduction

Chains: NYTIMES, Big Chains Benefit From City…PATRICK McGEEHAN. Published: May 29, 2008

Rising Food Prices: Rueters, Food prices to rise 9 percent a year. Charles Abbott. May 29, 2008