July 11, 2021
From Our Farmers
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Fresher Together Chicago
@ FresherTogether www.freshertogether.com
Carrots Blossoms/Flowers, Fresh Sage and Dried Lavender, Fresh Walla Walla Onions
and a Welcome to the Family Aloe Plant gift
Urban Pilon Chicago
@urbanpilon www.urbanpilon.com
Artisanal Adobo
Bee-utiful Chicago
@bee_utifulhoney www.bee-utifulbees.com
Honey
Cedillo’s Fresh Produce Chicago
@cedillofreshproduce www.cedillosfreshproduce.com/
Swiss Chard
Shyler Harmony Farm Chicago
Currently no social media
Dino Kale
Urban Eden Chicago
Website coming soon - Farm is located at @insidetheplant
Micro Greens Salad Mix
Check Back tonight, We’re uploading all our pictures, recipes and suggestions for the produce.
Never hesitate to reach out if you’re unsure what to do with things in your bag! FresherTogether @ gmail.com or text 312-88-Fresh (3-7374)
A Note about Lavender, Aloe and Sage Bundles from Chef Fresh
Thank you. Some Care for your week.
You may not have been expecting to find a little aloe plant in your share this week, but we wanted to give you a gift to thank you for your support, and and to also support your well-being. Whether you keep it in your kitchen to easily be available to snap off a piece when you have a burn, pass it to a friend, or add it to your budding or extensive plant collection… we wanted to to share some of our aloe abundance your way.
Also here’s a selfie of me with my first big lavender harvest. I hope you enjoy the smells of the dry wands you received. This lavender not only smells good, but is also a culinary variety. So get ready to add some to your honey, or other sweeteners to make a lavender syrup. Then it’s easy to add that to your lemonades, ice teas, or baked goods.
Or just hang it next to your bed or in your vehicle to aide in calm and relaxing energy.
Check out below back in October 4, 2020 for our writing about sage then. And never hesitate to reach out if you have questions.
Chef Fresh Roberson - Owner and Farmer - Fresher Together
Carrot Blossom Flowers
If the items in your brown paper bag look a bit weird, that’s completely understandable. These babies aren’t common grocery store shelf items. They’re not common items on farmer’s market tables either.
When growing, it takes time space and some nutrient resources to let your carrots flower. But the flowers are so so yummy.
We will often break some of the flower heads off and snack on them or throw them on top of a salad, but a fun way to eat them is to make a light batter like that of a tempura, dunk them in, and fry them . Here’s an online recipe we found using a chickpea flour. And while many say never wash these, because they taste more amazing with out loosing some of the nectar, it’s true, but we did do a first wash of all of them before they left the farm. Enjoy!
Basil and Oregano from Fresher Together Farms
A Note about Your Onions
Our first time with the Walla Walla
You may notice your onions this week are not like your typical well cured dry storage onions. We recently harvested all of our onions and let them dry just enough to get a little bit of a skin. But these onions are not good storage onions. We encourage you to use them soon. Also you may notice a juicy center like the one pictured where we cut back the green stem before everything dried and pulled together.
Next time we plan to let all of our onions dry a little more and shrink back before we snip tops, but this week we encourage you to simple remove any soft centers and use the rest of the onion. These onions taste great. they’re pretty mild and we cut one open on the farm to try as if we were slicing apple.
Fresh Walla Walla Onion - Note on the more open core.
Shyler Harmony Farm’s First Sale
We hope you enjoy your Dino Kale/Lacinato Kale this week as much as we enjoyed visting Sharren Smith of Shyler Harmony Farms LLC, our neighbor farmer. Sharren incubates as a Farmer for Chicago at Urban Grower’s Collective South Chicago farmer incubator program.
Sharren let us know that selling to the BIPOC Harvest Bag has been her first official sale as a farmer! We’re so happy to support fellow small farmers and we hope this is the first of many sales for Shyler Harmony Farms.