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September 5-9 Chatfield CSA e-news

Posted 9/2/2011 2:30pm by Josie Hart-Genter.


Dear CSA shareholders,

We hope you are enjoying all the beautiful tomato varieties! From the dark prince heirloom to mountain princess to striped Germans, they all have their own unique flavor and colors. Last Thursday we harvested close to 1,500 tomatoes on one single day!

To everyone who filled out a member survey and sent it back in - we thank you. We still need to get quite a few back so we are sending the link again, but we also will have hard copies at distributions for your convenience.

Please take a moment to fill out the member survey. You can bring the survey to distribution with you or email it

This week, Susan Evans from Chrysalis Herbs will demonstrate how to make gazpacho, a delicious cold soup recipe that uses many of this week’s veggies. Gazpacho stays great for days in your fridge and provides a nice cool snack for hot summer days. Susan will be at the York St. distribution from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. with plenty of gazpacho to sample as you pick up your share.

this week’s produce (Sept. 5 – 9)

  • Many pepper varieties (hot and sweet)
  • Purple onions
  • Heirloom tomatoes, slicing tomatoes and cherry tomatoes
  • Potatoes
  • Eggplant and broccoli
  • Beets, carrots and turnips
  • Cucumbers and squash
  • Salad greens, kale, chard and arugula 
  • Tomatillos
  • Sweet basil, Thai basil, parsley, cilantro and dill 

this week’s fruit (Sept. 6 and Sept. 8)

Two bags of fruit: peaches and gala apples

  • We will also have fresh cut bouquets, so please bring $5 cash. 

weekly recipe
adapted from 101 cookbooks.com

Fresh Apple Salsa

Ingredients

2 tart apples, locally grown if possible
4 tablespoons lime juice
1 fresh jalapeno chile
1 fresh Anaheim chile
1/2 medium red onion, finely chopped
Handful of cilantro, roughly chopped
1/2 cup (2 ounces) walnuts, coarsely chopped and lightly toasted
2 tablespoons peeled and finely slivered fresh ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

Cut the apples from the cores, leaving the skins intact, and cut the fruit into 1/4-inch cubes.

Toss the apple pieces with the lime juice and set aside.

Cut the chilies in half lengthwise and remove the seeds and white ribs. Slice them thinly. Add to the apples. Add the onion, cilantro, walnuts, ginger and salt and mix thoroughly.

This apple salsa goes great in panini sandwiches, on the top of pork chops and grilled chicken, or on just about any cracker and cheese combo.


farm topic – volunteering with the CSA

Growing vegetables is certainly no easy job, and here at the Chatfield CSA we need all the help we can get! With the staff/acreage ratio being at 1.5 people per acre, we certainly depend on our volunteers to make the harvest and distribution happen twice a week. We would like to take this moment to thank all of the volunteers who join us every week at all hours – harvesting, washing, counting, scrubbing, weeding, digging and carrying.

We have volunteers that get a discount on their share price for helping each week. The CSA will be adding new people to this team; if you or a family member is interested for next year please let us know. The staff in the field had a fantastic volunteer day last Thursday and we really appreciate the quality of help. There are volunteers that don’t receive a discount, but show up every week because they are dedicated and have a sincere appreciation for farming. Great work, everyone! Soon we will announce the details of our volunteer appreciation extravaganza.

If you are interested in becoming a CSA volunteer, please contact us at .


Local food festival and opening of corn maze

On Sept. 10 and 11 Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield will host the 3rd annual Local Foods Festival. The festival provides a fun, energetic and inspiring atmosphere for families to learn more about Colorado food resources with tastings and various lunch options from local restaurants. The CSA will have a booth selling cool season vegetable starts for your fall garden.

If that doesn’t sound tasty enough, the Local Foods Festival will coincide with the opening of the very popular Denver Botanic Gardens Corn Maze, opening on Sept. 9 - one of the largest of its kind in the country. Make a day of it! Attend the Local Foods Festival and make your way through the Corn Maze (separate admission fee). 


food safety note

Please note that although we have washed our produce once after harvesting it in the field, members should wash the produce at home again before eating. Our farm produce should be treated the same way as grocery store produce: always wash before eating! The best way to wash produce is by running it under cool water. Cleaning products are not necessary.

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