Schreiber & Sons CSA

Regarding your carrots……. we picked some carrots that were a little on the small side.  These go limp quickly.  However, if you put them in the crisper of your refrigerator or soak them in cold water they should firm up quickly.  Also, limp carrots taste just as good as firm carrots.  Also, if you just cannot stomach a limp carrot then cook with it.  Also, you should trim the leaves (technical term for it is the “brush”) off before you store it. 

Hope this helps.

Alan Schreiber

The following was shared by Alan in a recent email:

Anyone who takes the effort to seek out a CSA probably has the following characteristics; you care about what you eat, you want better food, you are concerned about health and nutrition, you want some control over what you eat.  Pollen’s book is a powerful story that can help you achieve these goals.  I was moved by his book and think you might be also.

Here is an except from page 159.

 To shop at a farmer’s market or sign up with a CSA is to join a short food chain and that    has several implications for your health.  Local produce is typically picked ripe and is    fresher than supermarket produce, and for those reasons it should be tastier and more           nutritious.  As for super market organic produce, it is too likely to have come from far             away—from the industry organic farms of California or, increasingly China.  In a             footnote to this sentence, Pollen states that the average organic produce in the         supermarket traveled further than the average item of conventional produce

 Following are the central tenets of Pollen’s book:

1. Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable, c) more than five in number, or that include d) high-fructose corn syrup.
2. Avoid food products that make health claims.
3. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
4. Get out of the supermarket whenever possible.
5. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
6. You are what what you eat eats too.
7. If you have the space, buy a freezer.
8. Eat like an omnivore.
9. Eat well-grown food from healthy soils.
10. Eat wild foods when you can.
11. Be the kind of person who takes supplements
12. Eat more like the French.  Or the Italians. Or the Japanese.  Or the Indians.  Or the Greeks.
13. Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism.
14. Don’t look for the magic bullet in the traditional diet.
15. Have a glass of wine with dinner.
16. Eat meals.
17. Do all your eating at a table.
18. Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.
19. Try not to eat alone.
20. Consult your gut.
21. Eat slowly.
22. Cook and, if you can, plant a garden.

Alan Schreiber said,

We are thinking about a mechanism to include wine from Claar Cellars (a neighboring farm that has become quite a nice little winery) into our CSA. Not sure how we would do it, but it would probably be an option to the regular membership. If you were interested in participating, you would probably pay a fee and in return get a bottle of wine at regular intervals.

Would anyone be interested in this?

Alan
Schreiber and Sons CSA