CSA Shares May 6 - 8

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This week brings the last of the ramps! Make great use of the whole plant by pickling the bulbs and making pesto with the greens to savor this flavor for weeks to come.

Our radishes are packing a punch this week from the higher temperatures we've had early this year. We always recommend: if you haven't tried roasting your radishes in just a bit of butter and olive oil, you are really missing out! Roasting will sweeten up the radishes if you find them too spicy for your taste.

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Produce

Ramps

Cabbage

Strawberries

Mustard greens or radishes

Spinach

Kale or swiss chard

Lettuce

Vidalia onions or beets

Asparagus

Appalachian Alchemy Herbal Wellness Shares

May's featured herb is dandelion. Dandelion is used as a spring detox tonic for the kidneys, liver, and other digestive organs, as a blood builder and purifier.
Shares this month include

  • Dandelion and Burdock Herbal Bitters - a digestive bitter to help detox kidney, liver, and other digestive organs. Taken as a daily tonic or before meals to assist in indigestion.

  • Eyes of the World - Morning Blend Tea - Roasted Dandelion root, yerba mate, peppermint, tulsi, stinging nettle loose leaf tea. Morning wake-up without the coffee jitters and packed with adaptogens and nutrient-based herbs.

Bakery

Brioche loaf

Chocolate chip cookies

Navajo corn bread

Concha pastries

Roasted chickpeas

Penne or creste rigate pasta

Pizza kit x 2 with dough, sauce & cheese

Protein Shares

We have added in a bit more variety to the protein shares by sourcing Asheville-based No Evil meat alternative products! This week, reduce your carbon footprint when you check out the chicken-esque shred in your favorite recipes.

  • Pollinator Flower Seed Paper - Plantable paper is a biodegradable eco-paper that is made with post-consumer materials (no trees harmed for this paper!) and embedded with seeds. When the paper is planted in a pot of soil, the seeds grow, and the paper composts away. All that is left behind are flowers.

  • Dandelion Oxymel - A tangy-sweet blend of dandelion, apple cider vinegar, and honey.

  • Wild Flower Jelly - with dandelion, calendula, and orange peel

Happy eating! ~ Jamie, Elise & the crew at River Creek Farm