Your source for information on the latest from De La Mesa Farms, including what to expect for farmers' markets and CSAs |
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What's In My Farmer's Choice Box This Week? |
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Baby Arugula Microgreens Baby Celery Green Beans Delicata Squash Loose Beets Dill Large Sauce Tomatoes | | |
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Pre-Order Your Free Range Chickens |
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Our first batch of chickens will be available in mid September. We will be selling fresh, whole birds. If you're interested in trying locally raised chicken, pre-order your chickens now for pickup on our farm. Our meat birds are pastured birds, meaning they have access to forage freely outdoors and have access to pasture with all the insects, seeds, plants and worms a chicken could want. This is a natural diet for chickens. We use organic practices which means we do not use antibiotics, hormones or commercially fertilize or spray with pesticides. We use a natural pasture rotation system with our animals and let mother nature do her work. |
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| | A rustic French-style potato salad with green beans. Oui oui chef! | | |
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| | This simple pasta salad recipe highlights the sweetness of early green beans | | |
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| | Olives, almonds and celery work beautiful in this crunchy side dish | | |
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| | Craving green salsa and red salsa. Well then, make then both! | | |
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| | Slices of delicata squash, dressed simply with olive oil and salt, caramelize in the oven, emerging golden all around, tasting like candy. | | |
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| | Wild mushrooms from the farmers market, my new favorite kind of squash and this addictive roasted garlic sauce. Yumm! | | |
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| | Simple as the ubiquitous pasta al pomodoro, and equally satisfying and comforting, risotto al pomodoro is an everyday dish that you can make special by using a roasted tomato sauce | | |
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| | This spicy tomato jam holds the memory of the summer sun in its bright colour and its rich flavour of ripe tomatoes, slightly warmed by a hint of chili | | |
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| | This brown butter, pomegranate, almond and dill roast salmon is ideal for your new forays into dinner parties – easy yet impressive, the sort of recipe you can pull off in the chaotic half hour | | |
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| | Creamy and hearty polenta with a puree of healthy greens – a delicious vegetarian main dish. Try this with arugula or dandelion greens | | |
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| | Bellevue Crossroads Tuesdays, Noon - 6pm | | |
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| | Kirkland Marina Park Wednesdays, 3pm - 7pm | | |
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And don't forget, you can place your pre-orders on our website. Deadline to place your orders is Sunday. |
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Dahlia and Emiliano playing with the aquaponics filtration system ... ahem, I mean, checking on the microgreen seedlings ... |
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Every week we seed more than 50 trays of microgreens with new soil medium and Bryan's not-exactly-patented, but definitely proprietary process for bringing you hearty, crunchy and flavorful microgreens. |
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This year was our first time growing melons. We ended up with only a handful of watermelons, shown above. Sometimes that happens in farming and plantings don't go as planned. We've learned not to get frustrated but take as much knowledge in as we can, and do better next time. |
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Pretty soon these Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes will be gone (I mean, Fall is around the corner). We're not sure how that happened, but we are sure to be canning as many tomatoes as we can in the next few weeks so we can remember summer's sweet sunlight in the winter months. |
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As we plan for next year, we're considering expanding our cut flower selection. Dahlias, peonies and tulips will definitely be on deck. Let us know if you have some other favorites we should add to the mix. |
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