VEGGIE COOP FARM NOTES: WEEK 18: October 21, 2009 Larger Bag
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Parking Slip: Larger Bag

Beets - Winter Keeper (bunch) 3.00
Carrots - bunch of 10 small 2.50
Cucumber - English Medium 2.00
Egyptian bunching onions 1.50 (Use as green onions or in soups and casserole)
Fava Beans - 500g. 5.00
Green Tomatoes - 500g. 3.00 See Website Recipe File for Green Tomatoes Recipes
Onions - small, medium and large 2.50
Pepper - 3 or 4 hot peppers 1.00
Pepper - sweet 1.00
Potatoes - 500 g. 1.75 either Island Sunshine or Yukon Gold
Turnip (summer with top) 1.50
Winter Squash 10.50
(Heart of Gold or Standard and either buttercup or Golden Hubbard)
(3000g. Total/average)

Total: $35.25
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ODDS AND ENDS!
Well, this is it. The very last drop-off for the Veggie Coop. We will miss you all, but we will not miss harvesting and packing in this miserable weather, thanks to the bravery and tenacity of our helpers, especially Vince, Diane, Denzil, Briar and Louis.

But we’re not done yet!
The dining room table is full of the spoils of the Organic Farm, things not quite perfect, but wonderful. There is a huge pot of green tomato mince meat on the stove, which will be frozen for tarts, pies and cookies in zip lock bags, 2 cups per bag; Pumpkin which is already frozen; I plan to use some to make pumpkin mini-tarts for the Farmers’ Market next week-end, using the recipe from Moosewood Cookbook posted in our recipe file. There are cucumbers, rinsed and grouped with dill, garlic and hot peppers, ready for pickling when I get home tonight or in the morning. Lenka, the Woofer from the Czech Republic is busy making apple strudel; the kind Mike’s remembers coming from his grandmother’s oven. She used some little winter apples from the tree near the garden, which has struggled for years to produce; we usually get one or two apple pies per year. This year, because Lenka is here, it will be strudel.

Vegetable Soups with Tennessee Cornbread, roasted vegetables with polenta, black bean chilli with home made salsa, shredded slaw with purple cabbage and roasted sesame (made by Louis).

It’s hard to close but must go to get ready for Veggie Coop Drop-off. After the drop-off, one WOOFER is going to the ROOMS and Jon is going with me to see a film at C1A Studio on Baird's Cove. This is a film which is part of the film festival; it was made by an artist staying with Coletee Urban on her organic farm, Fulltilt on the West Coast. Regardless, you can expect to find me later tonight, cuddled up by the wood stove, watching the news with Mike.

Take Care All and Thanks!.
Melba Rabinowitz
October 21, 2009