Need more inspiration for your CSA food prep? Learn traditional and healthy ways to make use of local, fresh produce. Free!! Sarah Leathers of Healing Meals is going to conduct two cooking demonstrations at the Granby Senior Center. Healing Meals is a nonprofit organization that delivers healthy food to individuals facing a health crisis and is a …
First, a note on peppers. It is now pepper season at the farm…sweet green peppers, a variety of pick your own hot peppers, and peppers in between. Two varieties, shishito and Padron peppers, are less familiar to folks so I have highlighted them below. I am also including a couple of unique recipes for cabbage …
Simply Fresh–Week 6–Cabbage, Mini Eggplant, and Shishito and Padron PeppersRead More »
I hope that everyone enjoyed their beautiful 4th of July. Just want to send a big thank you to the farm crew that worked on the holiday! I will be doing a cooking demo this coming Saturday at the CSA barn at 12 pm using fresh produce from the farm, including fennel, cucumber, zucchini, Swiss …
I am sorry to report that the fennel pickle recipe from last night’s post contains an error. Please add 1 cup water to the ingredient list. I have corrected the recipe in the blog for future readers but didn’t want any of you to suffer with super sour pickles. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Happy Spring fellow CSA members and Simply Fresh blog followers! I am so excited to be back writing this blog after the long, cold winter. It was a different winter for us in some ways, as we were members of the Holcomb Farm winter CSA for the first time. It was wonderful to receive local, …
Julie Wern (of Holcomb Farm’s “Simply Fresh”) invites you to Have a Spooky Fun Time Decorating Halloween Cookies Pumpkins, bats, spiders and spiderwebs, cats, witch’s hats, tombstones, pumpkins and much, much more. Instruction and supplies included! Who: Ages 6 and up (adults included) When: Sunday, Oct 28th Where: Holcomb Farm Workshop Time: 1-2:30 pm Cost: $27 …
In my last edition of Simply Fresh for the season, I had planned on writing up some thoughts about this year’s CSA experience, but the incredible recent events of the storm and its aftermath has set me in a bit of a different direction.Instead I have a written a recipe that should look quite familiar …
Julie Wern of “Simply Fresh” invites you to have a Spooky Fun Time Decorating Halloween Cookies Where: Holcomb Farm Workshop When: Sat. Oct 29th, 1:00-2:30 pm Who: Ages 6 and older (adults too!) Cost: $25 per participant Instruction and supplies included It is recommended that children 6-8 come with a “helping” adult Contact Julie Wern …
Halloween Cookie Decorating Class with Julie WernRead More »
Featured Item—Sweet Peppers Sweet peppers are a general term for the variety of peppers that do not include the spicy ingredient Capsaicin.These include bell, cubanelle, wax, banana, pimento, sweet cherry, mild frying peppers, among many others.While the term sweet pepper technically includes mild green peppers, they are more often associated with the brightly colored red, …
Featured Item—Carrots Carrots are probably the most universally palatable vegetable.Even kids that won’t touch a green vegetable are typically not adverse to carrots.Sweet and crunchy when raw and even sweeter when cooked, carrots are definitely crowd pleasers. While most of us have grown up knowing only the large orange varieties, carrot varieties can actually vary …