CSA News: Week 9- July 22 to July 24

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Cilantro: Pungent, fresh, and down right tasty. Your cilantro this week comes with it’s root attached will help with keeping it fresh for longer. The root has a milder flavor and aroma than the leaves and stems and are used in many  Thai dishes, such as curry.

• Kale, Lacinato: Also known as dinosaur kale or black Italian kale, this dark green variety is delicious raw in a robust kale salad or cooked up in your favorite kale dish.

• Onions, Walla Walla Sweets: As the name suggests, these onions are much sweeter than your typical white or yellow storage onion. They can be used in any recipe calling for onion, but try using them in recipes that will let their flavor shine through. For true onion lovers, they can be sliced and eaten raw on salads and sandwiches. Nothing tastes better than sweet onion rings, or use them in stir-fries, stews, pastas, or on pizza.

Get Connected with the Portland Area CSA Coalition (PACSAC)

Our friends at the Portland Area CSA Coalition (PACSAC) have a new email newsletter, and we’d like to invite you to connect with this great monthly resource for CSA members and anyone who loves local farms and good, seasonal food.

Each month, PACSAC’s newsletter will feature area farm events, seasonal farm news, recipes, and more. To connect go to: http://eepurl.com/Y-T9H

PACSAC connects consumers with local CSA farms by providing information and outreach about Community Supported Agriculture. You can learn more at www.portlandcsa.org. Thanks!

Your Invited to the SIO Annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast
Saturday August, 16th 10am-2pm

Join us for our annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast. This is a very kid friendly event, and in addition to potato harvesting we’ll be cooking up fresh from the field french fries and have sprinklers running to cool you down. Please bring a potluck dish to share, as well as blankets and/or chairs for lunch, and a water bottle to keep hydrated.  Join us anytime during the event, even just for lunch!

• 10am-12pm Harvest Spuds
• 12pm-1pm Farm Tour
• 1pm-2pm Potluck Lunch

Location:

Sauvie Island Organics (Farm Fields)

Parking: When you turn right onto Howell Park Rd. drive down the short hill and you can park in the grass field directly on your left just past the mailboxes. Then walk up the road another 100 yards and you’ll see the sign for Sauvie Island Organics at the end of our driveway. Make your way to the end of our gravel driveway and someone from the farm will be there to greet you.