Good Morning!
One of our farm-ily members told me that traditionally women in the south don’t get osteoporosis because they eat so many greens (collards in particular). So folks, eat up and enjoy the good nutrition! We have so many choices of greens this week! Pak choi, napa cabbage, pea shoots, salad, collards, mustard greens, chard, garlic scapes, green onions, not to mention kimchi, sweet potatoes, onions, beets and more! Our 12 year old farmer girl raises the pea shoots, she loves growing them. Our favorite way to use them is in salad, on sandwiches and also lightly sauteed and in a quiche.
Our favorite dressing for the napa salad we make is: 1/2 cup olive oil, 1/4 cup Raw apple cider vinegar, 1-2 TBS peanut butter, 1 TBS raw honey and 1 tsp sesame oil (if I have it, or I just skip it). I love to finely chop the napa cabbage, shred some carrots and chop some green onions. I usually serve this with cold cooked chicken chopped and some sunflower seeds. Toss it all together and you have a perfect easy meal! The pak choi is wonderful in stir fries with some shredded beef roast and rice!
This week is a busy one with the good weather finally here. We are super busy getting all the heat loving plants in the ground. The strawberries are starting to ripen and they are oh so sweet! Once they are in abundance they will be in your shares. For now they are for sale. Farmer Tommy sure enjoys raising them for you! And his little helpers enjoying helping to harvest them, they get paid in berries!
Things are rolling so I better get back to it! Weeds are not standing still right now and need to be tended to! The potato patch is looking better than ever and got it’s first cultivation with our BSC 2 wheeled tractor and then hilling. Squash is coming along in the greenhouse, we got our first taste last night and soon there will be plenty to go around!
Blessings,
The Baker Team