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| Today's bounty from our Shady Maple Farm gardens. All items in our harvest boxes are grown here at Shady Maple Farm. Oh, don't forget the beautiful flower bouquet for each box. |
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| Grams on the left sorts and bundling the beautiful beets. KC is checking out what's next. |
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| Chioggia beets look like targets. |
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| Once the beets are bundled they are submerged in cold water. Warm days warrant a cool soak. |
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| The makings of our own iced coffees. Yummy. |
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| This is a beet puree we dubbed "beet humus" as we dipped our tortilla strips in it over and over and over. |
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| A shredded beet, cabbage, fresh shelling pea and crisped onion salad. Really scrumptious. |
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| Oh yes, and dipping pita chips into the "humus" was mighty tasty too. The white is a few dollops of Greek yogurt. |
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| Shelling peas that could go into a salad or eaten out of hand. |
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| Sylvanberries. |
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| Raspberries. Top of my list. |
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| "Veronica" cauliflower. Looks pretty cool, right? If you'd like to grow things like this check out Baker Creek Seeds at rareseeds.com. |
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| "Purple of Sicily" cauliflower. |
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| Regular broccoli. Might be the variety "Blue Wind". |
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| All three look pretty together. |
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| This cauliflower is a double one. Once cauliflower makes its head it is a finished plant. They do not throw off any side shoots like broccoli does. All these leaves can go into the compost pile after the heads have been cut. |
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| The green cauliflower is the same, one head and then finished. Lots of leaves help protect the head from sun scald. |
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| This is our savoy cabbage on the left and our Pac Choi on the right. A different variety than what we usually see in the stores, which is bok choi. |
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| DiAnne, Jan and Chris clean and sort the lemon grass. It has sharp edges so gloves come in handy. The shade of the lathe house is welcome today. |
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| Bundled and tagged and ready for the boxes. Nice work ladies! |
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| The beginning of the kale bundles. |
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| Red and green celery. |
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| DiAnne rubber bands the colorful Swiss Chard. Such focus! |
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| Guess what's in these clear bags? |
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| Lettuce dunked in cold water. Hopefully all the little slugs swam to the surface. :) |
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| The contents of today's box. Each box gets a unique bouquet of flowers. |
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| DiAnne and Jan, buddies to the end of the day! Always cheerful and helpful. |
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| Another beautiful bouquet to pick from. Lisa picks and arranges all the flowers. |
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| White foxglove with dark pink Sweet William and light pink cluster roses. |
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| A bucket full of roses awaits placement in bouquets. |
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| Blue Veronica along with yellow lilies and snapdragons set off by green Bells of Ireland and lovage foliage. |
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| Playground fun. |
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| Deep discussions in the flower house. |
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| Anna being funny :) |
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| Chris enjoys her coffee popsicle. |
