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Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 18 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on September 13 included red Russian kale, potatoes, garlic, Dragon's Lingerie beans, cucumbers, Genovese basil, sweet peppers, heirloom tomatoes, eggplants...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 17 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on September 6 included potatoes, peppers, garlic, cucumbers, two varieties of eggplant, and (new since week 15) leeks, rapini, Dragon's Lingerie beans (rea...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
No picture for this one, because we didn't pick up our share on August 30. We didn't even have a friend pick it up. In fact, we completely forgot about it until a day or two later, because we were...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 15 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on August 23 included onions, chard, potatoes, peppers, garlic, cucumbers, and (new since week 13) scallions and patty pan squash. In addition to...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
A Few Good Friends, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. No, I'm not calling my friends vegetables. I'm explaining why I don't have a picture of the share that was waiting for us on August 16: We didn't pick it up....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 13 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on August 9 included onions, chard, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, garlic, and (new this week) and cucumbers and summer squash. This was just days...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 12 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on August 2 included onions, chard, cabbage, potatoes, peppers, and (new this week) eggplant, garlic, and zucchini! Dawn likes eggplant Parmesan, but says.....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 11 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on July 26 included cabbage, kale, potatoes, peppers, onions, basil, and beets. This share was identical to the previous week's share, but with...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 10 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on July 19 included onions, cabbage, beets, potatoes, basil, and kale. The cabbage and some of the onions eventually got used in a...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 9, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. I'm quite a bit behind on blogging our weekly shares from the Hill Street Farm CSA. I'm going all the way back to our share for week 9, which...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
This article originally appeared in the State Journal-Register on September 10, 2008. The SJ-R has made their original content available for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license, except where noted. Copyright © 2008 GateHouse Media, Inc. So...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
I went to the Illinois Products Farmers' Market this evening, for the first time in a few weeks. What with the market being closed for 2 weeks due to the Illinois State Fair, as well as us being busy moving,...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
We survived the move! Mid-July, all of August, and the first week of September are pretty much a blur. The short version: We started house hunting in mid-July, quickly found one that we wanted, made an offer, closed on August...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Just a quick post to say that my locavore diet hasn't killed me or put me in the hospital. I mentioned last time that the landlord told us he will be selling the house we're renting, so we've been house...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
First the good news. Our volunteer pumpkin plant (which we've named after the plant in Little Shop of Horrors) continues to grow by leaps and bounds! As you can see, it is now marching across our lawn, so I've placed...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Okay, it's not the world's greatest food photo, but here's what I had for dinner this evening. What's local: the tomato, the broccoli, the green beans, the mashed potatoes, the basil in the potatoes, and the water. What's not: the...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Jason posted a comment asking for more info about the Hill Street Farm CSA. As I prepared to write a response, it occurred to me that I probably should turn it into a blog posted, including an explanation of what...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
This week's share included 1 pint of Red Thumb fingerlings, 1 quart of Red Gold/Mountain Rose potatoes, Walla Walla and Red Tropea spring onions, kale or chard (we chose Russian kale), and Genovese basil. The included recipes were Vegetarian Tagine...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
After I got off work at 4:00 today, I dropped by the Illinois Products Farmers' Market. I was surprised to see that it seemed significantly more crowded than last week's premier! Perhaps word of mouth and news coverage of the...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
The second Local Flavors dinner is going on tonight as I write this, and as you might have surmised, I'm not one of the diners. *sob* The first Local Flavors dinner was held at Maldaner's. We couldn't make it to...
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