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FLATBUSH FARM SHARE

NEWS
This week’s eats:
Welcome to our second season!
2.3 / JUNE 02 2010

We’ve had a busy winter

and spring of planning, fundraising, outreach. Our first distribution will be this
Wednesday, June 2, and we’d like to make it a festive one! Please feel free to bring
spinach, snacks to share. We’ll have refreshments on hand, as well!
broccoli raabe,
japanese turnips, What you need to know:
kale, • Bring bags to carry home your veggies!
lettuce
• Arrive between 5 and 8pm! Unclaimed items will be donated to the food pantry.
baby bok choy
• If you have a balance or a weekly payment due, please bring your checkbook,
(note from our farmer: As usual, the spring shares
cash, money order, or EBT card!
are heavier on the greens. Coming soon--collards,
peas, beets and radishes, among others.) • We will have a sign-up sheet for volunteer shifts at distribution. Throughout the
season, contact Lee about volunteering, volunteer@flatbushfarmshare.com.
• Our distribution site is the Flatbush Reformed Church, at 890 Flatbush Avenue,
at Church. The nearest subway is the Church Ave B/Q.
Distribution starts THIS
WEEK! Stay for snacks! Join us at our FUNDRAISER, June 5!! - Support our mission
to provide fresh produce at all income levels! The Farm Share MUST raise money in
Friend us on Facebook! order to provide a sliding scale price structure for our members and still pay our farmer
For additional announcements and fairly! Help us out! We have planned an event at Sycamore, 1118 Cortelyou Road,
communication between members! We are
Flatbush Farm Share.

Want to share contact

information so you’ll
have someone to call in
case you can’t make it to
distribution? If you want to have
your contact information appear on a
membership list and distributed *only*
within the membership, let Sally know!
Contact Sally Moses (new member) at
ms.sam.ny@gmail.com or 718-462- that will feature four live
1333. bands, food fresh off the
grill, and raffle prizes,
including those pictured
Compost your leftovers! here - as well as a full
season’s share of produce, a
Bring your food scraps to distribution
donation from our farmers!
each week, and they’ll be composted in a Buy some raffle tickets at
nearby garden, through a partnership with our first distribution, or
BKFarmYards! volunteer to make some
food to share- and join us
on June 5!
Zucchini Pancakes (from Kristin Morton, our membership-
co-coordinator, via the Food Network)
2 med. zucchini (about 3/4 lb)
2 tablespoons grated red onion
2 extra-large eggs, lightly beaten
6 to 8 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
Unsalted butter & vegetable oil

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

Grate the zucchini into a bowl using the large grating side of a box WIN THIS QUILT AT OUR FUNDRAISER!
grater. Immediately stir in the onion and eggs. Stir in 6 tablespoons of Hand made by Flatbush Farm Share member and site coordina-
the flour, the baking powder, salt, and pepper. (If the batter gets too tor, Belinda Loomis
thin from the liquid in the zucchini, add the remaining 2 tablespoons
of flour.) ... Or a print from
Heat a large (10 to 12-inch) saute pan over medium heat and melt 1/2 Kristiana Parn,
tablespoon butter and 1/2 tablespoon oil together in the pan. When http://www.etsy.com/
the butter is hot but not smoking, lower the heat to medium-low and shop/krisblues
drop heaping soup spoons of batter into the pan. Cook the pancakes
about 2 minutes on each side, until browned. Place the pancakes on ... Plus many other
a sheet pan and keep warm in the oven. Wipe out the pan with a dry prizes! Get raffle tickets
from core members at our
first distribution.

Best Practices for Storing Your Weekly Veggies Research compiled by 2009 FFS member Diane Chia
FOR BEST RESULTS, DNF
(Do Not Refrigerate)
GENERAL GUIDELINES Store in cool, dry place. Refrigerate
- Water encourages deterioration, eggplant and tomatoes only if
store vegetables dry. intended to be kept more than a
- Store vegetables whole. If cut, week
wrap in clingfilm and keep for no - Eggplant
more than a week. - Tomatoes
- To avoid cross-contamination, - Potatoes
store cooked or ready-to-eat foods - Sweet Potatoes
on the top shelf and raw foods on
the bottom shelf.
HERBS
Wrap in damp towel or stand
upright in jar with an inch of water
SQUASHES - Basil
Store unwashed in perforated - Parsley
plastic bag - Fennel
- Summer squash similar storage strategy
- Zucchini - Celery
- Cucumber
- Pepper
ROOTS
Store unwashed roots in crisper
LEAFY GREENS drawer, store greens separately in
Store loosely in plastic bag in plastic bag with other leafy greens
crisper drawer - Radishes
- Daikon
- Kale
- Turnips
- Chard
- Parsnips
- Spinach - Beets
- Bok choy - Celeriac
- Lettuce similar storage strategy
- Collards - Carrots (store roots in plastic bag)
similar storage strategy - Cabbage
- Brocolli - Corn (store with husk on)
- Cauliflower exception
- Garlic scapes - Leeks (store with greens
- Peas attached)