Jim usually sends an update to all members via email - make sure it is not blocked as spam! You can also find the weekly updates here, just in case.
Today's Share - August 25th, 2010
Dear CSA Members,
Yesterday's share should have included:
1 pound white or yellow potatoes
a pint box of tomatoes (Vancouver) or tomatillos (farm)
a large romaine, bronze arrow or green leaf lettuce
25 collard and/or kale leaves
15 green onions
TOMATILLOS. A few of you may be new... [Read More] |  |
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Today's Share - August 18th, 2010
Dear CSA Shareholders,
Today's share should have included the following: Two plus pounds of gravenstein apples, a simpson elite green leaf lettuce and a bronze arrowhead oak leaf lettuce, 3 bulbs of garlic and a large ailsa craig onion. Vancouver shares and one farm share received a... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - August 11th, 2010
Dear CSA-ers,
The first CSA member to arrive at the Vancouver pick up site (with their pillow case) will receive the first Hunters' Greens CSA tomatoes of the season (half a fruit box).
Your shares should include the following:
A pound of fingerling and yellow finn potatoes, a butter... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - August 4th, 2010
Today's Share should included the following: Some cilantro, a pound of fingerling potatoes, a large red leaf lettuce, sixteen collard leaves, a few small walla walla onions (use the tops too), and four beets.
NEW FARMER, NEW CROPS. In his long experience working with farmers, Jim has... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - July 28th, 2010 August 4th, 2010
Dear CSA members,
Today's Hunters' Greens shares should include:
A box of gooseberries, a large red leaf lettuce, a pound of fingerling potatoes, a mixed bunch of kale and collards, and a "stir fry recipe suggestion" kit containing some green onions, baby carrots, broccoli and... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - July 21st,2010 August 4th, 2010
Today's share should include:
Seven eighths pound sugar snap peas
A bunch of beets
A bunch of onions
4 - 5 bulbs of garlic
A large romaine lettuce
BEETS. The famous Farmer John of Angelic Organics CSA remarks in his cook book that he gets more comments regarding beets than... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - July 14th,2010 July 20th, 2010
Dear CSA Shareholders,
Today's share should have included:
One and three quarters pounds sugar snap peas
One pound fingerling potatoes
6 carrots
a medium romaine lettuce (if your romaine was smaller you got a small red leaf lettuce too)
SNAP PEAS. We hope everyone knows by now that you... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - June 30th, 2010 July 2nd, 2010
Dear Hunters' Greens CSA Members,
Yesterday's shares should have included 20 stems of kale, 8 "sprouting" garlics, 6 carrots, a half pound broccoli (Vancouver shares) or a medium and some small lettuces (farm shares), 11 mustard green leaves.
SPROUTING GARLIC. Not all the... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - June 23rd, 2010 June 23rd, 2010
Dear CSA-ers,
Today's Hunters' Greens Shares should include:
2 medium Italienischer lettuces
5 bulb/stalks of "living garlic"
One of the following: an extra lettuce, a bunch of radishes, 3-4 broccoli crowns, a bunch of turnips, a small bunch of baby bok choy, or a half pound of... [Read More] | |
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This Week's Share - June 16th, 2010 June 17th, 2010
Dear CSA members,
This week's share should have included:
a bunch of radishes, a bunch of small kale leaves, a bunch of mustard greens, a bunch of baby beet greens, a large lettuce and a bunch of green garlic.
GREEN GARLIC. Green garlic can be chopped up like a green onion, and... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - June 9th, 2010 June 9th, 2010
Dear Hunters' Greens CSA members,
Today's share should include:
2 buttercrunch lettuces and some small oak leaf lettuces,
a handful of baby carrots
a small bunch of arugula
a half pound of baby bok choy and broccoli raab
a half pound of spinach
Brenda has provide this recipe that you... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - June 2nd, 2010 June 2nd, 2010
Dear Shareholders,
Apologies for some communication breakdown this week, we've been dealing with some untimely crises here at Hunters' Greens.
If you haven't figured it out already, Today (Wednesday, June 2) was our first delivery. Shares at the farm will be in the coolers until... [Read More] | |
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Farm Update May 27, 2010 May 27th, 2010
Dear Hunters' Greens CSA Share holders,
Before you head out the door for your Memorial Day week end, flip the calendar over to June and mark Wednesday June 2 for your first produce delivery.
More details to come.
Jim | |
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Farm Update May 15, 2010 May 15th, 2010
NOTE: HUNTERS' GREENS REGULAR SEASON SHARES ARE SOLD OUT. WINTER SHARES ARE STILL AVAILABLE
At last the warm dry weather has arrived. When last we wrote, we assured our readers that this weather would find Jim out in the fields dawn to dusk, planting everything... [Read More] | |
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Farm Update: May 2, 2010 May 3rd, 2010
It's exactly one month until the launch of the 2010 Food Odyssey, and the weather folks say we broke a record for the number of rainy days in April; not the best conditions for getting crops in the ground. Fortunately, drier weather in February and March gave us opportunities to get the... [Read More] | |
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Farm Update - April 25th,2010 April 25th, 2010
The intrepid Clark County Farmerette Brenda Millar of Rosemattel's CSA looks like she may yet make good on her promise to have radishes and salad greens for the opening of her Battle Ground Farmer's Market this Saturday at the Gardner Center. The greens may qualify as micro-greens, but... [Read More] | |
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Farm Update - April 21st, 2010 April 21st, 2010
The intrepid Clark County Farmerette Brenda Millar of Rosemattel's CSA looks like she may yet make good on her promise to have radishes and salad greens for the opening of her Battle Ground Farmer's Market this Saturday at the Gardner Center. The greens may qualify as micro-greens, but... [Read More] | |
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Farm Update April 6th, 2010
When last we wrote, it was sunny and warm. We farmers must be optimists, because we were sure that weather would last all spring. So here it is in the mid-thirties, blowing and pouring, certainly this can't last forever.
One of the reasons Jim has nearly given up on season... [Read More] | |
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Farm Update March 30th, 2010
This season feels like we're getting off to a solid early start. The garlic crop looks great, more than a foot tall and virtually weed free since we weeded in January. The dry weather has allowed us to work up the fields for the spring vegetables, while we leave cover crops to... [Read More] | |
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Here at Hunters' Greens we are just waking up... February 16th, 2010
Hello,
Here at Hunters' Greens we are just waking up and blinking our eyes at the bright light after a couple of months of winter hibernation. Actually we're still a bit grumpy.
But alas it's time to shake off the the winter slumber and begin a new season of growing veggies. The... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - October 7th,2009 October 7th, 2009
Dear CSA-ers,
Today's share should include:
One large or two medium lettuces,
Some chantenney and bolero carrots
A pound of potatoes, kennebec and/or yellow finn
10 collard leaves
Farm shares have ten chard leaves and some beet greens
Town shares have six radishes
And.....
ONE HALF OF A... [Read More] | |
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Season update/winter shares September 30th, 2009
Dear CSA Members,
Apologies for the poor e-mail communication the last few weeks. We kind of lose steam this time of year. Also Ruby, the seperation anxious hound, doesn't like us to go to the computer in the basment and leave her alone on the first floor.
Just a reminder that the... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - August 26th August 26th, 2009
Dear Food Adventurers,
Today's share should include:
One and a half pounds of red pontiac potatoes
A cabbage in the neighborhood of 2 pounds
3-4 cucumbers including one or two lemon cucumbers (round, white to yellow)
3 bulbs of garlic (ugly crumbly skins, will come off easily, but... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - August 19th August 20th, 2009
Dear Community Agriculture Supporters,
Today's share should include:
5 or 6 Chantenney Carrots (great for making golden dollars)
A medium red arrowhead oakleaf lettuce
8 collard leaves (large enough to do a fan dance with)
A small to medium cabbage
A few large to small cucumbers (... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - August 12th August 12th, 2009
Dear CSA-ers,
Apologies for the spotty communication as of late. We've decided that our new dog Ruby is what is known in the training trade as a velcro dog. The computer is in the basement, and Ruby can't negotiate the steep steps, so she has a fit. Her answer is to get... [Read More] | |
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Today's share - July 29th July 30th, 2009
Dear CSA-ers,
Don't forget, pick up today in Vancouver is between 6:30 and 7:00, Fisher's Landing at 7:30, Farm is, as usual anytime after 4:00
Today's share should include:
A De Morges Braun red lettuce and either an Italienischer green oak leaf lettuce or an Esmarelda pale green butter... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - July 15th July 15th, 2009
Dear Lovers of Wholesome Veggies,
Today's share should include:
One large to extra large Walla Walla onion
Two pounds of new potatoes: Yellow Finn and/or Desiree
One large to extra large lettuce: Red Sail or Italienischer plus some small lettuces
Three fourths pounds broccoli and/or... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - July 8th July 9th, 2009
Dear CSA-ers,
Today's share should include:
One and a half pounds sugarsnap peas
5 or six beets with greens
13 chard leaves
a medium to large Red Sails leaf lettuce and a small green lettuce
a pint box of gooseberries
WHY BEETS!
Iconic CSA farmer, Farmer John of Angelic Organics in... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - July 1st July 1st, 2009
Dear CSA-ers,
Today's share should include:
2 pounds (count them) 2 pounds of sugar snap peas
1 pound of new potatoes (desiree- red with yellow flesh)
An assortment of medium to small lettuces
20 collard leaves (about a half to 3/4 of apound)
Town shares have about a quarter to a half a... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - June 24th June 24th, 2009
Dear Greens eaters,
Don't forget your pillow case!
Today's share should include:
1.75 pounds of sugar snap peas (eat it all, pod and all)
Farm shares should include:
About .75 pounds broccoli
A butter lettuce or red leaf lettuce or both
About .5 pounds of swiss chard
Town shares... [Read More] | |
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Today's Share - June 18th June 19th, 2009
Dear Hunters' greens eaters,
Today the shares will look a little different at the farm and at our in town pick ups. Sometimes we do this so you will get a more useable portion, rather than tiny bits of this and that.
Everyone should have a half pound of escarole in a sack.(see recipes... [Read More] | |
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June 10th, 2009 June 10th, 2009
Today's share should have included:
baby lettuces
beet greens and mustard greens
turnips with greens (sometimes more green than turnip)
green onions
green garlic (like green onions but flat leaves, smells like garlic, chop like green onion, use like garlic)
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June 3 Delivery, recipe, notes June 3rd, 2009
Greetings Food Odyssians,
Today is the first Hunters' Greens CSA delivery, don't be late! (June 3, 2009)
Folks picking up at the farm, remember there are extra potatoes from last year you can take if you like. They are on a bread tray. Big sacks are yellow finn, little sacks... [Read More] | |
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The Food Odyssey is about to begin! May 29th, 2009
The Food Odyssey is about to begin! Despite the cool spring and some farming screw ups on Jim's part ( of which you will soon hear), we will be starting the season on time next Wednesday.... [Read More] | |
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Free Food! April 15th, 2009
We're giving away "free food" at the farm! All 2009 CSA-ers upon payment of an installment on their 2009 share are welcome to come to the farm and pick up a "signing bonus" share. So if you've already paid, come on ahead, and if you haven't quite gotten around to it yet, this is an incentive to... [Read More] | |
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Shares available! February 26th, 2009
Priority is always given to returning members of Hunters' Greens. That said, we will have shares for new members too! Please look for an update about how many shares are available around March 1st. We are looking forward to a great 2009 Food Odyssey.
Thank you in advance! |  |
