Lake Superior CSA
July 19th 2017 Fruit Veggie Boxes:
OR1Cherry Tomatoes, Broccoli 3Tomatoes # Cherries, Quart Strawberries, 1 Jar OR Cucumbers, Peas, Baby of AppleSnap Raspberry JamCarrots
Bayfield Foods Cooperative
Lake Superior CSA
~Great Oak Farm~ Pearl Onions ~River Road Farm~ Kohlrabi OR Zucchini ~Yoman Farm~ Head Lettuce and Parsley ~Twisting Twig Garden~
Mini Veggies : Tomatoes OR Cherry Tomatoes, Snap Peas, Carrots ~Great Oak Farm~ Zucchini ~Yoman Farm~ Pearl Onions ~River Road Farm~ Meat Boxes: Grass-fed Ground Beef + Steak Hidden Vue Farm Ham Steak + Bacon ~Maple Hill Farm~ Mini Meat Boxes: Ground Beef ~Hidden Vue Farm~ Ham Steak ~ Maple Hill Farm~ Whitefish + Trout ~Bodin’s Fisheries~
PLUS ITEM: Dilly Beans ~Spirit Creek Farm~
Fruit: 3 # Cherries ~ Apple Hill Orchard 1 Quart Strawberries ~ Basket BONUS ITEMS: Flats/Bayfield Apple Co. A “bonus” item are items that we will stick 1 Jar of boxes AppleifRaspberry Jamenough ~ Bayin random we don’t have field Apple Co to go around for everyone. Will you be the
How Should I Eat Kohlrabi? Kohlrabi is found in a lot of Indian cooking, so it naturally does well with traditional Indian spices. Honestly, though, we feel that the mild flavor of kohlrabi gets lost if mixed with too many other vegetables or seasonings, so we tend toward simple preparations where the kohlrabi can take center stage: 1. Enjoyed raw. When raw, kohlrabi is slightly crunchy and mildly spicy, like radishes mixed with turnip. You can toss them in a salad, make a slaw out of grated kohlrabi, or eat them on their own with a drizzle of good olive oil and a sprinkling of sea salt. 2. Puréed into soup. While kohlrabi can be thrown into a basic chunky vegetable soup, we particularly like it in a creamy, puréed soup with mild spices so that sweet kohlrabi flavor can really shine through. Kohlrabi can also be added to recipes for cream of potato, cream of broccoli, and even cream of mushroom soup! 3. Made into fritters.
This is a great way to get kids to eat their kohlrabi! Shred it and mix with an egg and a few tablespoons of flour or breadcrumbs. Heat oil or butter in a flat skillet, drop on small mounds, and flatten slightly with the back of your spatula. Turn after a few minutes, and serve when both sides are crispy.
We are so excited to announce that Happy Nest Mock Duck has joined our cooperative and will be offering Mock Duck as a special order! Below is their bio. Welcome Sarah and Jim! ~ Stefanie Greetings from Happy Nest Mock Duck! We started Happy Nest Mock Duck in 2015 in Bayfield, Wisconsin. We love delicious food and we want to live gently on the earth. In 2007 we moved from our hometown of Saint Paul, MN and started traveling to different organic farms to live, work and learn. We learned how to grow food organically, compost, raise chickens and pigs, and preserve food by drying, fermenting and canning. We also began foraging wild food and hunting wild mushrooms. Along with this foray into food fun came making our own mock duck. We have been vegetarians for a long time and were introduced to mock duck (which is also known as seitan) at the many delicious Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants in the twin cities. Once we perfected our recipe, we realized there was a lot of potential here. We have always loved muck duck, but until we began having lots of it on hand we hadn’t realized how versatile it is. We use it in salads, tacos, lasagna, sandwiches, stir-fry, soup, casserole and pot pies; we even marinate and grill it and roast it in the oven. We fell in love with the Bayfield Peninsula the first night we were here back in 2008. In 2016 we purchased our first home just outside of Bayfield Wisconsin. We feel incredibly lucky to be able to live in this amazing place on Lake Superior and we want to do what we can to strengthen the community and promote sustainable business in the area. Two percent of our profits are donated to the Bad River Band of Ojibwe and the Bad River Watershed Association to help care for the waters we all love.
We’ve always wanted to be our own bosses and we are excited to share a delicious meat replacement that is small on carbon and big on awesomeness. We use gmo-free wheat gluten to make our mock duck and we compost all of our food scraps from producing it. We are currently processing in a local church kitchen, but will be building a processing kitchen on our land and we plan to use green building materials and passive design principles wherever possible. We believe in doing things the best you can the first time around, we apply this to our treatment of the Earth and animals, our business and our lives. Our goal in the near future is to start an educational non-profit organization leading field trips with kids and hosting activities aimed at connecting them to their Earth and their food. Our own educations were lacking in this area and we feel it is an important use of our experiences and resources to encourage consciousness of the soil food web, and the benefits of treating the Earth with respect. Make your nest a happy nest! . We The other big and exciting addition to River Road Farm in 2017 is our new 30x96 moveable high tunnel greenhouse. Yup, it’s almost one hundred feet long and it moves on a track.
Zucchini Fritters Ingredients 2 cups grated vegetables (zucchini, carrot or sweet potato) 2 free range eggs 1/2 cup onion, finely chopped/ grated Butter or coconut oil for frying Sea salt and pepper to taste Preparation Grate the zucchinis with the skin on and add some salt. Let the mixture stand for a while you chop the onion. Squeeze the veg in order to get rid of excess water, and then mix with the onion, the spices and the eggs until you have a thick pancake like batter.
In a frypan heat the oil or butter and fry the batter in batches of 4 small pancake size fritters for about 2 minutes each side on medium heat, or until slightly brown. Serve with a tossed green salad dressed with lemon and olive oil.
PLEASE FLATTEN & RETURN CSA BOXES!
SNEAK PEEK AT NEXT WEEK July 26th 2017 Veggie Boxes Snap Peas, Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Cucumber ~Great Oak Farm~ Carrots, Pearl Onions ~River Road Farm~ Zucchini ~Yoman Farm~ Head Lettuce, Parsley
~Twisting Twig Garden~
Mini Veggies Tomatoes OR Cherry Tomatoes, Snap Peas, Cucumber ~Great Oak Farm~ Head Lettuce, ~Twisting Twig~
Meat Boxes Whitefish and Trout ~ Bodin Fisheries~ Ground Beef + Steak~ Griggs Cattle + Hidden Vue Assorted Pork—Maple Hill Farm Mini Meat Boxes Ground Beef + Steak ~Hidden -Vue + Griggs Cattle co. Assorted Pork ~ Maple Hill Farm Trout~ Bodin’s Fisheries
PLUS ITEM: Kraut ~Spirit Creek Farm~
Fruit Raspberries
Bayfield Foods Cooperative
Lake Superior CSA
Hello fruit share customers!
When running a fruit orchard, you survey your berries and apples each spring, trying to guess what kind of fruit season you might have. Of course, you always hope it’s your most plentiful year yet! Most years, you truly have more fruit than you know what to do with! (Thankfully for the BAC, we turn this fruit into jams, jellies and cider). Then...there are the years that you wonder, what happened? Unfortunately, we had one of the “what happened” years with our Bayfield strawberries. Usually strawberries are one of the best fruits to ship in the LSCSA fruit share! They are typically plentiful, have excellent flavor and ship well. They are a great way to start out our fruit season and your fruit share season! This year, Bayfield had a shortage of strawberries. Just to give you a glimpse...a large orchard that supplies strawberries to Bayfield, Washburn, Ashland AND have a pick-your-own operation from their farm, were limited to supplying only Bayfield accounts and running their PYO. Another orchard that advertised for a strawberry festival was unsure how to supply all of their customers when this festival came around. They ended up letting PYO customers pick “jam berries,” because they just didn’t have enough nice, large fruit! For us at the BAC, we had some really nice berries this year, but we didn’t have quite enough to supply all of our valued LSCSA customers! Fortunately, we were able to source a small amount of strawberries from a pick-your-own orchard in Marengo, called Basket Flats. This farm was gracious enough to help us out when we wanted to fill your boxes! Even with BAC and Basket Flats strawberries, we still didn’t have quite enough to fill your fruit share boxes, so we had to get a little creative! Last week, you had 2 quarts of fresh strawberries and a 6-pack of fruit spritz, crafted by another member of Bayfield Foods, White Winter Winery. With no fruit in Bayfield, we wanted to get you a taste of local fruit somehow! This fruit spritz is made with juice from local fruit and is a refreshing summer drink! We hope you enjoyed the spritz and understand why you received spritz, instead of a whole box full of fresh fruit. We are glad to say that the rest of the fruit season looks great! This week, you will find Bayfield sweet cherries and strawberries in your box, as well as an Apple Raspberry Jam (made with Bayfield fruit at the BAC). As we look forward throughout the summer and fall, here are the fruits you can be expecting in your box: raspberries, cherries, blueberries, pears and apples. Thank you for being a LSCSA fruit share customer and teaming with your local farms, in good seasons and in “what happened?” seasons! We love the support we get from our customers and love bringing you fruit throughout the summer and fall! Here’s to a plentiful season for all of our farmers!
OR1Cherry Tomatoes, Broccoli 3Tomatoes # Cherries, Quart Strawberries, 1 Jar OR Cucumbers, Peas, Baby of AppleSnap Raspberry JamCarrots
Bayfield Foods Cooperative
Lake Superior CSA
~Great Oak Farm~ Pearl Onions ~River Road Farm~ Kohlrabi OR Zucchini ~Yoman Farm~ Head Lettuce and Parsley ~Twisting Twig Garden~
Mini Veggies : Tomatoes OR Cherry Tomatoes, Snap Peas, Carrots ~Great Oak Farm~ Zucchini ~Yoman Farm~ Pearl Onions ~River Road Farm~ Meat Boxes: Grass-fed Ground Beef + Steak Hidden Vue Farm Ham Steak + Bacon ~Maple Hill Farm~ Mini Meat Boxes: Ground Beef ~Hidden Vue Farm~ Ham Steak ~ Maple Hill Farm~ Whitefish + Trout ~Bodin’s Fisheries~
PLUS ITEM: Dilly Beans ~Spirit Creek Farm~
Fruit: 3 # Cherries ~ Apple Hill Orchard 1 Quart Strawberries ~ Basket BONUS ITEMS: Flats/Bayfield Apple Co. A “bonus” item are items that we will stick 1 Jar of boxes AppleifRaspberry Jamenough ~ Bayin random we don’t have field Apple Co to go around for everyone. Will you be the
How Should I Eat Kohlrabi? Kohlrabi is found in a lot of Indian cooking, so it naturally does well with traditional Indian spices. Honestly, though, we feel that the mild flavor of kohlrabi gets lost if mixed with too many other vegetables or seasonings, so we tend toward simple preparations where the kohlrabi can take center stage: 1. Enjoyed raw. When raw, kohlrabi is slightly crunchy and mildly spicy, like radishes mixed with turnip. You can toss them in a salad, make a slaw out of grated kohlrabi, or eat them on their own with a drizzle of good olive oil and a sprinkling of sea salt. 2. Puréed into soup. While kohlrabi can be thrown into a basic chunky vegetable soup, we particularly like it in a creamy, puréed soup with mild spices so that sweet kohlrabi flavor can really shine through. Kohlrabi can also be added to recipes for cream of potato, cream of broccoli, and even cream of mushroom soup! 3. Made into fritters.
This is a great way to get kids to eat their kohlrabi! Shred it and mix with an egg and a few tablespoons of flour or breadcrumbs. Heat oil or butter in a flat skillet, drop on small mounds, and flatten slightly with the back of your spatula. Turn after a few minutes, and serve when both sides are crispy.
We are so excited to announce that Happy Nest Mock Duck has joined our cooperative and will be offering Mock Duck as a special order! Below is their bio. Welcome Sarah and Jim! ~ Stefanie Greetings from Happy Nest Mock Duck! We started Happy Nest Mock Duck in 2015 in Bayfield, Wisconsin. We love delicious food and we want to live gently on the earth. In 2007 we moved from our hometown of Saint Paul, MN and started traveling to different organic farms to live, work and learn. We learned how to grow food organically, compost, raise chickens and pigs, and preserve food by drying, fermenting and canning. We also began foraging wild food and hunting wild mushrooms. Along with this foray into food fun came making our own mock duck. We have been vegetarians for a long time and were introduced to mock duck (which is also known as seitan) at the many delicious Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants in the twin cities. Once we perfected our recipe, we realized there was a lot of potential here. We have always loved muck duck, but until we began having lots of it on hand we hadn’t realized how versatile it is. We use it in salads, tacos, lasagna, sandwiches, stir-fry, soup, casserole and pot pies; we even marinate and grill it and roast it in the oven. We fell in love with the Bayfield Peninsula the first night we were here back in 2008. In 2016 we purchased our first home just outside of Bayfield Wisconsin. We feel incredibly lucky to be able to live in this amazing place on Lake Superior and we want to do what we can to strengthen the community and promote sustainable business in the area. Two percent of our profits are donated to the Bad River Band of Ojibwe and the Bad River Watershed Association to help care for the waters we all love.
We’ve always wanted to be our own bosses and we are excited to share a delicious meat replacement that is small on carbon and big on awesomeness. We use gmo-free wheat gluten to make our mock duck and we compost all of our food scraps from producing it. We are currently processing in a local church kitchen, but will be building a processing kitchen on our land and we plan to use green building materials and passive design principles wherever possible. We believe in doing things the best you can the first time around, we apply this to our treatment of the Earth and animals, our business and our lives. Our goal in the near future is to start an educational non-profit organization leading field trips with kids and hosting activities aimed at connecting them to their Earth and their food. Our own educations were lacking in this area and we feel it is an important use of our experiences and resources to encourage consciousness of the soil food web, and the benefits of treating the Earth with respect. Make your nest a happy nest! . We The other big and exciting addition to River Road Farm in 2017 is our new 30x96 moveable high tunnel greenhouse. Yup, it’s almost one hundred feet long and it moves on a track.
Zucchini Fritters Ingredients 2 cups grated vegetables (zucchini, carrot or sweet potato) 2 free range eggs 1/2 cup onion, finely chopped/ grated Butter or coconut oil for frying Sea salt and pepper to taste Preparation Grate the zucchinis with the skin on and add some salt. Let the mixture stand for a while you chop the onion. Squeeze the veg in order to get rid of excess water, and then mix with the onion, the spices and the eggs until you have a thick pancake like batter.
In a frypan heat the oil or butter and fry the batter in batches of 4 small pancake size fritters for about 2 minutes each side on medium heat, or until slightly brown. Serve with a tossed green salad dressed with lemon and olive oil.
PLEASE FLATTEN & RETURN CSA BOXES!
SNEAK PEEK AT NEXT WEEK July 26th 2017 Veggie Boxes Snap Peas, Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Cucumber ~Great Oak Farm~ Carrots, Pearl Onions ~River Road Farm~ Zucchini ~Yoman Farm~ Head Lettuce, Parsley
~Twisting Twig Garden~
Mini Veggies Tomatoes OR Cherry Tomatoes, Snap Peas, Cucumber ~Great Oak Farm~ Head Lettuce, ~Twisting Twig~
Meat Boxes Whitefish and Trout ~ Bodin Fisheries~ Ground Beef + Steak~ Griggs Cattle + Hidden Vue Assorted Pork—Maple Hill Farm Mini Meat Boxes Ground Beef + Steak ~Hidden -Vue + Griggs Cattle co. Assorted Pork ~ Maple Hill Farm Trout~ Bodin’s Fisheries
PLUS ITEM: Kraut ~Spirit Creek Farm~
Fruit Raspberries
Bayfield Foods Cooperative
Lake Superior CSA
Hello fruit share customers!
When running a fruit orchard, you survey your berries and apples each spring, trying to guess what kind of fruit season you might have. Of course, you always hope it’s your most plentiful year yet! Most years, you truly have more fruit than you know what to do with! (Thankfully for the BAC, we turn this fruit into jams, jellies and cider). Then...there are the years that you wonder, what happened? Unfortunately, we had one of the “what happened” years with our Bayfield strawberries. Usually strawberries are one of the best fruits to ship in the LSCSA fruit share! They are typically plentiful, have excellent flavor and ship well. They are a great way to start out our fruit season and your fruit share season! This year, Bayfield had a shortage of strawberries. Just to give you a glimpse...a large orchard that supplies strawberries to Bayfield, Washburn, Ashland AND have a pick-your-own operation from their farm, were limited to supplying only Bayfield accounts and running their PYO. Another orchard that advertised for a strawberry festival was unsure how to supply all of their customers when this festival came around. They ended up letting PYO customers pick “jam berries,” because they just didn’t have enough nice, large fruit! For us at the BAC, we had some really nice berries this year, but we didn’t have quite enough to supply all of our valued LSCSA customers! Fortunately, we were able to source a small amount of strawberries from a pick-your-own orchard in Marengo, called Basket Flats. This farm was gracious enough to help us out when we wanted to fill your boxes! Even with BAC and Basket Flats strawberries, we still didn’t have quite enough to fill your fruit share boxes, so we had to get a little creative! Last week, you had 2 quarts of fresh strawberries and a 6-pack of fruit spritz, crafted by another member of Bayfield Foods, White Winter Winery. With no fruit in Bayfield, we wanted to get you a taste of local fruit somehow! This fruit spritz is made with juice from local fruit and is a refreshing summer drink! We hope you enjoyed the spritz and understand why you received spritz, instead of a whole box full of fresh fruit. We are glad to say that the rest of the fruit season looks great! This week, you will find Bayfield sweet cherries and strawberries in your box, as well as an Apple Raspberry Jam (made with Bayfield fruit at the BAC). As we look forward throughout the summer and fall, here are the fruits you can be expecting in your box: raspberries, cherries, blueberries, pears and apples. Thank you for being a LSCSA fruit share customer and teaming with your local farms, in good seasons and in “what happened?” seasons! We love the support we get from our customers and love bringing you fruit throughout the summer and fall! Here’s to a plentiful season for all of our farmers!
