What's In The Boston Box?

share distribution #3

Every other week/senior shares pick up on odd distribution weeks

this is the box that will be available
at our Boston Distributions on Thursday

Collards: Classic cooking green, stew them up Southern style or saute them with a bit of liquid.

Head Lettuce: Spring lettuce is the best lettuce. We have red leaf, green leaf, romaine and butter, all are great for salad making or for your sandwiches. We aim to have lettuce for every single share but often we will see a gap in mid summer. Right now some of our lettuce is struggling due to the ultra dry weather so we will see what happens!

Bok choi: Maybe the last of the season’s bok choi. Cook it up with the garlic scapes.

Napa cabbage: Make dumpling or stir fry this up. Also makes a great fresh salad.

Kohlrabi: This alien looking vegetable is a two in one treat. Use the greens as cooking greens. Peel the bulbs and chop them up for cooking or fresh eating.

Cucumbers: The first of the season, We grow both pickling cukes and slicing cukes. Both are great for fresh eating, typically the pickling types are used for pickling. We don’t wax our cucumbers like those the grocery store so you may find they don’t hold as long.

Summer squash/zucchini: The first of the season, we grow a lot of these and use them as the base of a lot of our summertime meals because they are so versatile.

Broccoli: Some of the tastiest broccoli out there and a very limited crop. Broccoli is very challenging to grow in New England even though it is such a common vegetable. You will see it again in the fall.

Garlic scapes: These garlicky curly’q’s are actually the flower buds of our garlic. We break them off the garlic to encourage the plant to put all its eergy to growing big garlic bulbs. Lucky us they are mildly garlic and great for cooking or making pesto. Use the as you would garlic in your cooking.