2015 Farm Share Week 6

Hello Everyone,

This week you will find in your shares:

Wed. July 1

Regular

• Bunching Onions
• New Potatoes
• Beets
• Fennel
• Green Beans

Small

• Bunching Onions
• New Potatoes
• Beets
• Fennel
• Summer Squash

Sat. July 4

Regular

• Bunching Onions
• New Potatoes
• Summer Squash
• Cucumbers
• Green Beans
• Head Lettuce
• Fresh Green Garlic!!

Small

• Bunching Onions
• New Potatoes
• Summer Squash
• Head Lettuce
• Green Beans
• Fresh Green Garlic!!

Recipe Ideas

Fennel and green beans - http://www.marthastewart.com/326889/fennel-and-green-beans-with-orange-and-a

Roasted potato and fennel salad -  This recipe calls for 5# of potato and serves up to 12 people, so you might need to reduce proportions by 1/2 or 1/4.  You could replace the chives with the bunching onions if you like.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/roasted-potato-and-fennel-salad-recipe.html

Vegetable Spotlight

Potato  Native to South America specifically the high Sierra of the Andes, where it had been developed because corn would not grow above 11,000 feet.  The first Europeans probably saw their first potato near Quito Ecuador not much later than 1530, where Pizarro’s men wrote about it in his Chronicle of Peru (1553).  It has been estimated that the potato had been domesticated in Peru since 3000 B.C.  It was these Spaniards that most likely took the potato back to their home land.   The potato enjoys and interesting history from the 16th century on to today, worth looking at more extensively if you were so inclined.  (i.e. how did it get to Ireland?).