Adventures and Thoughts of Team Cross

CSA #10

crossn81 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:31:07 +0000

Week 10 of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following: Fresh garlic White cipollini onions Red or Chioggia beets Fennel Carrots Thai basil Summer squash Sugar Snap Peas Baby bok choi Salad Mix Cauliflower Sadly, we will be missing the barn dance on Saturday. Work gets in the way. Technorati Tags: CSA, Community Supported Agriculture, Harmony Valley, Vegetables

Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam

crossn81 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:35:01 +0000

I was amazed at how difficult it was to find a recipe for Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam that used both real strawberries and real rhubarb. Most just called for adding a strawberry jello packet in with your fresh rhubarb. That is great for an “easy” recipe but I wanted to use our CSA fresh strawberries and rhubarb. I [...]

Hosea: An Interesting Story of Prostitution

crossn81 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:36:07 +0000

Image via Wikipedia As Seward Church continues its journey through the 66 books of the Bible we found ourselves learning about the interesting life of Hosea. If you aren’t familiar with this story, it is quite intriguing as Hosea is told by God to marry a woman who would cheat on him, multiple times. Usually with this [...]

Palm Pre & Fireworks

crossn81 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:42:24 +0000

I only brought my Palm Pre with, down to watch the Minneapolis Red, White, and Boom celebration last night. We were treated to about 19 mintues worth of pyro-mania. They utilized a variety of different altitude levels for a cool show. We’ve never seen so many low-level fireworks, but they were pretty sweet. After reading a [...]

CSA #9

crossn81 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:47:16 +0000

Week 9 of Harmony Valley Farm’s CSA (blog) contained the following: Salad mix, Green top red beets, Fennel, Purple scallions, Fresh garlic, Snow peas, Strawberries, Amaranth, Sweetheart cabbage, Romaine, Spinach, Basil, Summer squash We made it through a majority of last week’s vegetables. We were talking about this the other day and realized that for most of the vegetables we don’t experience their uniqueness. Often we through a bunch [...]

Book Review: Here Comes Everybody

crossn81 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:01:55 +0000

Image via Wikipedia A little book club of non-profit emerging leaders I’m involved with picked Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody as our latest book. The subtitle is very intriguing – The Power of Organizing without Organizations. With this intriguing title and Shirky’s well-respected background in social media, it was odd that most of us were disappointed [...]

CSA #8

crossn81 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:26:34 +0000

This week’s CSA box from Harmony Valley Farm included: Red Leaf Lettuce, Spinach, Strawberries, Scallions, Garlic Scapes, Sugar Snap Peas, Arugula, Napa or Sweetheart Cabbage, (not sure which) Amaranth, Summer Squash, and Chard We definitely didn’t finish eating all of the greens from last week. Again I’ve never heard of some of these items – Chard? Amaranth? We’ve been enjoying the strawberries that we got over the weekend. [...]

Strawberries

crossn81 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:05:14 +0000

The focal point of our trip to the farm and the main reason we attended was to pick strawberries. Yes, there are other places to strawberry pick closer to home, but this was a unique opportunity to do so out our place. Harmony Valley Farm is pretty clear to their CSA members that they want [...]

Strawberry Picking

crossn81 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:20 +0000

We had a great weekend at “our farm” – Harmony Valley Farms. We road tripped down the Mississippi River to find our farm nestled in a valley in southwest Wisconsin. Here is a quick synopsis: - Camping with other members in the meadow - Chatting with Richard, the owner, around the campfire - Watching the fog [...]

CSA #7

crossn81 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:53:52 +0000

Week 7 of our CSA from Harmony Valley Farm (blog). Green leaf lettuce Kohlrabi Spinach Strawberry Red radish White scallion Garlic scapes Salad mix Napa cabbage Broccoli Red Komatsuna Lots of delicious vegetables again and some sweet strawberries!! Pretty exciting to taste the strawberries as we’ll be picking a lot for ourselves this weekend at the Strawberry Picking Day!!! We ate a lot of today’s and last week’s [...]