Spring has sprung! New goMarket offerings.

Hey folks!
The weather has been marvellous for the past couple days and summer veggies are loving it. We’ll have to wait on tomatoes and cucumbers for a while still, but we have a lovely diversity of greens (kale, chard, lettuce and collards) on offer from Homegrown City Farm and spinach and radishes from Wild Dog Farm. We had our first Asparagus available from Big Al’s little garden in Lakewood, but it looks like it’s already sold out. (Sometimes you gotta jump the gun Sunday evening/Monday morning to get that something special!)

Ordering Instructions!

A few people have had some trouble ordering through the market. Here are the basic steps:
1) Sign in here

2) Place orders here
(or click “Market” along the top row of buttons)

3) Check out here
(or just click “Proceed to Checkout” in the top left, refresh if you don’t see that link)

Recipe

Here’s my favorite way to prepare Collards for those that need a little inspiration for this local staple:

Ingredients:
1-2 cloves garlic (minced)
2 tbsp (approx) Soy Sauce (or Bragg’s)
Small piece ginger (pinky nail sized piece, minced)
1 bunch Collard greens (washed & stems removed, and then cut into ribbons)
1 tbsp cooking oil (I use peanut oil)

Sautee the garlic and ginger in the oil (careful not to burn it!). Add your cut greens until wilted. Then I basically steam the greens in soy sauce tossing a couple times.

Kale can be prepared similarly, though with Kale I tend to leave out soy sauce and use a cider vinegar.

Serve with grilled chicken breast from Breezy Oaks farm and you’ve got a very nice dinner!

Other News

Your local urban farmer, Homegrown City Farm hosted a lovely meetup this past Wednesday for a variety of farmers, entrepreneurs and food system activists this week at the second “Trifoodhack.” My friend Tori Fredericks posted about it on his blog here: link. I also posted a little about why I pushed that we use the word “hacking” to describe what we’re doing in our food system here: link.

In solidarity!
-Eric