The Weblog
We send out cool articles and farmer highlights using a different email program. You can see the archives of those emails here and through our facebook page! We use this “weblog” every Friday evening to let you know the market page is accepting orders (look for the little add to cart buttons next to products). Northeast Georgia Locally Grown was officially OPENED on Monday, April 26th, 2010 and we are so thankful that you are helping support fresh local foods each week.
Locally Grown Availability for February 5th, 2014
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Hey Local Food Lovers,
It’s way late so I’m gonna try and be concise tonight. We were celebrating Chinese New Year is why it’s been a late night. Actually it was on Friday but we celebrated tonight. Fantastic Food but very difficult to describe, things like pork belly stewed in soy sauce, napa cabbage, rice noodle with mushroom and carrots; shrimp and pineapple in an asian mayo sauce, taiwanese cold chicken; and the list goes on.
As our world continues to globalize you can count on being exposed to more and more interesting and delicious foods. In fact, one goal I have in my own garden this year is to grow some of the harder to find vegetables that are less common in our routine diets, but really create some amazing opportunities to experiment. Things like Daikon Radish, edamame (a type of soy bean), all kinds of interesting types of napa cabbage, asian cucumbers, kohlrabi, white gourd, longbean, galangal, and many more.
Of course to eat these things requires some study but that’s the fun part. When I first started eating local food it took lots of study to learn how to eat beets, and fava beans, fennel.
Then you start to get obsessed with little things. For instance, two years ago I grew some beautiful daikon radishes and lots of my favorite variety of carrots and was looking for more and more things to do with them. Finally it dawned on me that Vietnamese pickled daikon and carrot is what makes a vietnamese sandwich (or banh mi) so speical…that along with the liver pate. Well I never got around to making liver pate (though i have goat liver in the fridge now) but that pickled carrot daikon was phenomenal. The fresh crunch on a sandwich was scrumptious. Won’t be long now and I hope to be making some jars of that stuff for the late spring and summer months.
Ok, enough about my late winter food longings. This is a reminder though that spring planting plans are afoot. Many things will need to be planted in starter trays soon to get out in time for the first spring harvest. Napa cabbage is one of these.But I shall not digress any further.
TREES. We weren’t able to connect last week on tree orders, but if you’re still interested we may have just a few left. Everyone who requested trees last week will get a reminder e-mail to make sure you still want them this week. We’ve kept the roots wet so hopefully they’ll still do just fine, especially if you get ‘em planted during this warm wet weather we’re gonna have this week.
Here’s the ones we may still have a few left.
Green Ash
White oak
Tulip poplar
They come in bundles of 5 for $5. Just send an e-mail to soque@windstream.net with the number you’d like of each kind.
That’s it for this week. Happy Chinese New Year!
Eat Well,
Justin in Habersham
and
Chuck in Rabun