Category Archives: Weekly CSA Newsletters

(CSA Newsletter: Week 31) Meet this week’s vegetables: Juliet tomatoes — These small sweet Roma-style tomatoes are a September treat! They ripen and hold on the vine better than other varieties, so we can wait and pick lots at once … Continue reading →

(To print this survey without printing the entire blog, click on the title above — “Oakhill Organics 2010 CSA Survey” — and then print.) We still have many weeks left in the 2010 CSA season, which runs through mid-Dec. However, … Continue reading →

(CSA Newsletter: Week 30) Meet this week’s vegetables: Sweet corn — More delicious sweet corn! It’s hard to beat a lightly cooked fresh ear of sweet corn, buttered and salted … yum. Tomatoes — We’ve been especially enjoying this year’s … Continue reading →

(CSA Newsletter: Week 29) Meet this week’s vegetables: Sweet corn!!!! — In spite of the cool spring and summer, we have sweet corn! And, it’s delicious! Tomatoes — We hope you’ve been enjoying our tomatoes this year. We sure have … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Sweet peppers — Over time, I think that we have learned to love sweet peppers just as much (or possibly more) than tomatoes. We eat them raw in salads, sautéed in pasta dishes, roasted in soups, … Continue reading →

Meet this week’s vegetables: Yellow “romano” beans — “Romano” pole beans have a flat slender shape (as opposed to a round fat shape). This specific yellow romano variety is called “Gold of Bacau,” and it’s one of our favorites. In … Continue reading →

(CSA Newsletter: Week 26) Meet this week’s vegetables: Tomatoes — The very first of this year’s tomato crop! These are called ‘stupice,’ and they are a new variety for us this year. They are an open-pollinated heirloom, which means that … Continue reading →

(CSA Newsletter: Week 25) Cauliflower OR Summer squash — Your choice between a head of tasty cauliflower or several delicious summer squash or zucchini. Both are delicious raw, roasted, or added to stewed curry vegetable dishes! Fava beans — We … Continue reading →

(CSA Newsletter: Week 24) Fava beans — See “about fava beans” for more info and cooking directions! Fennel bulbs — Want to try something fun, simply and different? Try roasting a pan of chopped fennel bulbs and cauliflower until tender. … Continue reading →

(CSA Newsletter: Week 23) Meet this week’s vegetables: Cauliflower — Before working on a farm, I’d only ever been exposed to raw cauliflower — usually in those ubiquitous veggie platters at parties. Yuck. Since then, I’ve experimented more with fresh … Continue reading →