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Highlights from the week of July 13

7/16/2021

Highlights from this week on the farm:

- definitely the walla walla onions (just the beauty of them - and eating them fresh on tomato sandwiches) Angela
- the scent of the basil and the crispy tear of the chard Maryanne
- enjoying tomato sandwiches with Angela Paul
- a few flower highlights from Cheryl: the almost black red hedge sunflower, the Hollyhill honeydew dahlia, or the karma chocolate dahlia
- finding plump eggplant under the leaves while harvesting Roland
- picking the cosmos. I like its bitter scent and the featheriness of it's leaves Soléne
- rolling on Roland's roller :) Madeleine
- It's always about good food for me: I love exchanging ideas about what to do with all those zucchini and hearing a customer tell me she was trying kohlrabi for the first time. I hope she loved it and will be back for more this week. Denise

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Always refining...let's talk plastic

6/19/2021

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I wonder if you are someone who likes to refine how you do things? Do you look for ways to streamline a task in order to save time, or money or to reduce your climate impacts? We find that as farmers and as business owners we are often experimenting and needing to shift things from week to week or season to season. This year we have added pre-washed bagged mixes (lettuce, spinach and stir-fry bags) to our market offerings. We thought many people would appreciate the convenience and quality of this product, and it turns out that you do - these bagged products have sold well!

We have a complicated relationship with plastic bags. Plastic pollution is a massive global problem, particularly in marine ecosystems. We avoid using extra plastic when we can and we applaud the City of Surrey for taking steps to eliminate single-use shopping bags in the coming year. We don't want to encourage you to take home more plastic than necessary but we also know that most vegetables will wilt very quickly if not stored in a bag. So we'd like to try out a new way to sell you our salad mix.

1. You bring a clean reusable container (plastic, stainless steel, even Ziplock) to the market.
2. We weigh the container at the checkout and fill it with salad mix. Voila, one bag saved!!

If you forget your container, no problem we'll still have the bagged-up lettuce mix available. That's the thing with learning to be earth-conscious consumers; we are always learning and trying to do the best we can in each stage of life. As farmers and business owners we want to find the "even better yet" way to get fresh, healthy vegetables to you in the least amount of waste (primarily plastic waste).

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Chimichurri Sauce - bring on the cilantro and parsley

6/11/2021

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Stir Fry Sauce Options for all these amazing spring greens

6/11/2021

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Palek Paneer

6/4/2021

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A few notes:
- I use canned tomatoes (1-2 cups)
- you'll need 2-3 bags of spinach (if you're buying them on Tuesday)
- this is probably a bit too much garam masala (the spice mixes can be quite different depending on the brand. the one I have now has a lot of clove so I only do 2 tsp).

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when we used to be out on the grass:)

Highlights from the week of July 13

Always refining...let's talk plastic

Chimichurri Sauce - bring on the cilantro and parsley

Stir Fry Sauce Options for all these amazing spring greens

Palek Paneer

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