Welcome to the first week of our 2022 Farm Share!
I like to take this time each year to thank you for signing up. Your membership fuels our farm! With your early financial support, we are able to purchase the many items we need to buy each spring. With your commitment to purchase from us weekly, we are able to plan in advance our vegetable production and reduce waste. And getting to know you gives what we do meaning, as we know the people we are feeding.
Where and how we buy our food is a huge decision, and we don’t take it lightly that you have chosen us. We will be doing our very best to provide you with a wide variety of high quality produce this year!
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Administrative Details
You’ll have until 11:55pm. on Tuesday, June 7th to customize your share. Not sure how? Follow this how-to: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260802865550-Customizing-Your-Box-
If you need to switch your pick-up location, skip, hold or reschedule a delivery you can learn how to do that here: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001542514-How-to-skip-reschedule-or-change-a-delivery-location
Have another question? You can probably find the answer at Harvie University here: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000048773-Harvie-University-Members
What’s In the Share This Week
Spring is green on the farm. And that is reflected in the first weeks of the shares. You will find salad mix, green onions, and green garlic in your share. Some will find hakurei turnip, radish, and kohlrabi. We don’t have enough of those for everyone so you may see one but not the other. Because of the cold and wet spring, we are a little behind in the field. As the weeks move ahead, you’ll see our weekly crop list increase, giving you more chance to swap and customize your shares. But for now, feast on what spring isn all about - greens!
Veggie Notes
Green Garlic
A spring delicacy you will only see once or maybe twice in your share. This is one of those unique items that you may have never had before and probably never will see in a grocery store. Many people understandably mistake this for a spring onion. It's the garlic version of a spring onion - garlic harvested in the spring, before it's mature. It has a lovely aroma, a sweet and mild garlic flavour without the heat, and can be used raw or cooked. Use it as a replacement for garlic in any recipe. Add it to pasta, stir fries, omelettes. Dip it in salt and eat it, it’s great for your immune system. I particularly love it grilled on the BBQ!
It also makes DELICIOUS pesto - try this recipe https://www.thespruceeats.com/green-garlic-pesto-recipe-2217490
Kohlrabi
We love this sweet member of the cabbage family – a hardy, quick-growing crop that can be eaten raw or cooked. Just peel the outside skin off and it's ready to eat. You can cook it too - stirfries, fritters, even mashed. It also makes a fantastic slaw! Of course the simplest way to enjoy it is just peel it, slice it and eat. Great on a platter with dip. It's sweet, juicy, and crisp. Your kids might even like it!
Try this slaw recipe: https://www.loveandlemons.com/kohlrabi-slaw/
Hakurei Turnips
This is a fun vegetable that you don't usually see in the grocery store. Known also as a salad turnip, it is a white, mild round root vegetable that looks like a radish. It is in fact in the same family, and it does taste a lot like a radish - except without any spice! Eat it raw just as it is, or slice it into salads. You can also cook it, it cooks up nice with a glaze.
On The Farm
We have been busy as usual this time of year getting everything into the ground! The colder, wet spring hampered us for a bit but we are almost back on track. We just have to get our winter squash and melon into the ground this week and then we will be all finished with our big spring transplants. Now, it is a lot of weeding, trellising, pruning, and harvesting mixed in with our weekly and biweekly succession plantings.
Pick Up Reminders
Farm Pick Up Procedure
Pick up on the farm is on Thursdays between 3pm-7pm. We like to be organized and have everything ready before 3pm, but please don't be tempted to arrive early because sometimes, as with all things, we're not done til the last minute. Our address is 30073 Centre Rd, Strathroy. We're down a long driveway, with a sign at the top of the driveway. Pick up happens outside our packhouse. It's just on the left about halfway down the driveway. There's a small gravel parking area there.
Tips: Put your turn signal on early when slowing down– cars drive fast along this road and get impatient if they don’t know you’re turning. Please don’t turn around in our neighbours driveways. Be mindful of other cars coming and going, as we have a narrow driveway.
Market Pick up
Find us at the market, we’ll have your share ready for you! Covent Garden Market (outdoors) is from 8-1 and Strathroy 8-12.
Delivery
If you chose home delivery to Strathroy, we will be there between 3-6 on Thursday.
Forget to pick up your share? Going to be late?
Don’t worry, it happens! In that case, send us an email or text and we'll leave it in our cold room for you, to pick up later or the next day.
If you need to get in touch with me on pick up day, send me a text rather than an email if you can. 519-719-7253.
Email is mulberrymoonfarm@gmail.com
Contact me at any time with your questions, comments, concerns :) We love to see what you are doing with your veggies, so make sure to tag us @mulberrymoonfarm in your social media posts and stories.
Enjoy your first share of veggies, and thanks for keeping us growing! We can't wait to see you!
Your farmer,
Kim
