Cook Field Pick-Up, Thursday, Aug. 22, 3:30-5:30pm

Produce this week…

Self-select items…

Tentative produce list for 8/29 pick up

This is the last week of the Summer CSA. Our next pick up will be the first pick up for the Fall CSA. We look forward to seeing all of you who are continuing on as subscribers. Thanks to those of you who joined us for the summer. If you want to add on a fall subscription you can add on for the price of a combined share. Contact ifmiami@miamioh.edu for more information.

Farm updates…

This is a big week for local food at Miami. Stephanie Anderson, author of One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture, arrives this afternoon for four days of conversation about food and agriculture and why it matters now more than ever. She is giving a book talk at Lane Public library this evening at 7:00pm. She will also start the semester off with a lecture at Miami’s Convocation this Sunday at 3:00pm in Millet hall. We are looking forward to showing her our farm. This is a great way to launch the fall CSA. More than that, it is a great way to begin an ongoing conversation about food, agriculture, and our stewardship of the environment where we live and work.

What to do with your produce this week…

This is the week for peppers. Peppers are members of the Solanaceae family, which makes them relatives of tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants. Peppers are a New World plant that played a central role in the Columbian Exchange, spreading quickly through Europe, India and beyond. They have become an integral part of diets around the world. They are also an important source of nutrition, high in vitamins A, C and E as well as iron and potassium. Finally, they are versatile–you can eat them raw, stuff them, make a sauce, a salad…

Here is a link to the Food Network, which provides a number of good recipe ideas. https://www.foodnetwork.com/topics/bell-peppers