glacier grist
Issue #18 • Thursday, February 12, 2009
18 February 2009 box contents
from Alaska’s Glacier Valley Farm and VanderWeele Farm:
Alaskan onions | Alaskan carrots | Alaskan russet potatoes | Alaskan green cabbage
from Outside:
certified organic broccoli | certified organic celery | certified organic cauliflower | certified organic golden beets | certified organic Fuji apples | certified organic navel oranges
THE PLAN FOR APRIL
We are starting to run low on our carrots, onions and cabbage. As you already know, these are Alaskan grown staples of our program. Alison is on vacation right now when she gets back in March we will figure out how we are going to proceed in April. I estimate that we will have enough of the onions, carrots and cabbage for the March boxes. April will be listed as “sold out” until we decide how to proceed. We’ll keep you posted!
NEW PICKUP LOCATIONS!
We’re excited about our several new pickup locations since the new year. If you’re signed up to pick up your box at a different location, but would like to switch to any of these sites (keep in mind, the ConocoPhillips building is a secure building--so only employees of that building can sign up there), just send me an email at and I’ll change your selection.
Alaskan onions
Despite our best efforts to tell the good from the bad, sometimes an onion turns up rotten in the CSA boxes. Why is this? Arthur explains: “Onions are one of the newer crops we are producing here in Alaska, and we still have a lot to learn. Growing them is easy; the hard part is perfecting the curing process: getting the outer layer of the onion dry enough to protect the inner onion. In warmer climates, onions are cured in the field before they are stored. Here in Alaska, farmers are trying to figure out how to cure onions indoors, without the benefit of a longer, hotter growing season. We donʼt have the process perfected but we are well on our way.”
So--should we quit putting Alaskan onions in the box because of the risk of a rotten one ending up in the boxes? We decided to put extra onions in your boxes, so in case you get a bad one, you’ll still have plenty. You’re part of the process of Alaskan farmers learning how to cure onions!
Satisfaction guaranteed!
Please let us know if you aren’t happy with anything in your box, and we’ll make it up to you in your next box.
A different format for February
February is Alison’s month off, so we’re doing things a little differently! Instead of including individual recipes for everything in the box, Alison has compiled an index of all the recipes in the previous Glacier Grist newsletters—which are available here on the website for you to use! You’ll find loads of great recipes in boxes you may have missed… now is the time to try them!
Look up a recipe in the index below that you’d like to try, and note the Issue number. Then scroll down the left hand margin of this website page to find the links for all the previous issues. You can get a printer-friendly version by scrolling to the bottom of the Glacier Grist, and clicking “Print Recipes.”
PLEASE RETURN YOUR BOXES!
For more recipes, check out my Alison’s Lunch blog, or the South Anchorage Farmers Market website. And check out our
new glacier grist recipe index!
Cheers! And happy cooking! --Alison
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