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Farm Trip! Come one come all to Green Thumb Farm :)

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Fill up the gas tank and let's get over to our farm!
Saturday, June 23 at 10:30am and 1pm we are all set for our summer strawberry picking farm visit. It's a walking tour open to CSA members and their families. We'll get to check out the farm and pick our very own free quart of strawberries. That's an extra "sweet" bonus if you ask me Smiley

share pickup for 5/12

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Shares should be available for pickup after 2pm today. If you are picking up in the afternoon when volunteers are not on site, please mark yourself off on the sign in sheet and follow the chalkboard instructions when building your share.

Volunteers are on site from 5:30-7:30pm.

Please bring your own bags!

Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp

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From Chez Panisse Desserts

1/2 cup walnuts
7/8 cup flour
1/3 cup brown sugar
4 tsp granulated sugar
1/8 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup softened salted butter
1 1/2 to 2 pounds rhubarb
1/2 pint ripe strawberries, washed, hulled, and sliced
3/4 sugar
3 tbs flour

Toast the walnuts in a preheated 375 degree oven for 4-6 minutes, or until they smell nutty, then cool them. Chop into coarse 1/4 inch chunks - if they are larger they will stick out of the topping and burn.

The Language of Rhubarb

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It is or was common for a crowd of extras in acting to shout the word "rhubarb" repeatedly and out of step with each other, to cause the effect of general hubbub. As a result, the word "rhubarb" sometimes is used to mean "length of superfluous text in speaking or writing", or a general term to refer to irrelevant chatter by chorus or extra actors.

Possibly from this usage, possibly from a variant on "rube", or perhaps some of both, the word also denotes a loud argument. The term has been most commonly used in baseball.

New Pictures Up!

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If you haven't already, point your browser to the Hellgate CSA flickr group!  There are some wonderful new pictures of the meat and dairy farms up north by Site Coordinator Jayme W, and some lovely pictures of last week's share by CSA member Josh B.  Thanks to you both for your fab fotos.

Hellgate CSA Flickr Group

Organic Standards in Jeopardy

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Tipped of by an article on Gothamist, I learned that the USDA may relax organic standards even further than they are currently. From the LA Times:

The agency is considering a list of 38 nonorganic ingredients that will be permitted in organic foods. Because of the broad uses of these ingredients — as colorings and flavorings, for example — almost any type of manufactured organic food could be affected, including cereal, sausage, bread and beer.

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