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  • Okra with tomatoes

    Week 18’s okra, with 3 Week 17 tomatoes roughly chopped, olive oil, and salt. On the stovetop for about 10 minutes until some browning and soft. If you want a real recipe for stove top recipe, this Mediterranean-style sauce cooks up in under half hour and looks delicious: Okra and tomatoes prepared Mediterranean-style with onions,…

  • Fall shares on sale

    Greenbelt pick up will still be Tuesdays. The Fall season is 8 weeks, with first pick up on Tuesday, October 31 (spoooooky) and the last pick up on Tuesday, December 19. Note that there is a pickup on the week of Thanksgiving. Either contact LFFC 2 weeks ahead of time to get store credit for…

  • Week 18 Unboxing

    This week’s medium contents: There are so many wonderful potato varieties that typical supermarkets don’t even begin to touch. If the blue potatoes are anything like the purple potatoes I love getting from LFFC, their flesh is a beautiful deep color and has a firmness that makes lovely thick roasted wedges or slices. You can…

  • Week 17 Unboxing

    This week’s medium box per the email: Top right is Garden Gem Tomatoes and bottom right is surprise extra tomatoes, probably Roma. The Garden Gem Tomato is fantastic. Here’s a fascinating long read from 2015 about its development: To create it, Klee took the best-tasting tomato he’d ever grown—the Maglia Rosa, a grape tomato that…

  • Week 16 Unboxing

    This week’s medium box: Mixed specialty eggplant indeed. The long shape is a common characteristic of Asian eggplants, and the globe shape of Western eggplants. Google says the long green one might be Thai Long Green or might be Green Knight Hybrid eggplant. I wonder what other eggplants are in other people’s boxes. Here is…

  • Week 15 Unboxing

    This week’s contents: I started searching Gregg Basil when it showed up in the prediction newsletter. I thought maybe it was a typo for Greek Basil (similar to sweet basil with smaller leaves) or a super specific variety. It smells like sweet basil to me (compared to Week 14’s Lemon Basil which I ended up…