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CSA Week 12, Sept1-4

9/1/2015

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This week's share: french filet beans, sweet potato tendrils, tomatoes, basil, watermelon, carrots, sweet bell and italian peppers, hot peppers, onions.

Recently, basil has been getting a mildew that turns it yellow/brown, then kills it ("Downy Mildew").  The trick is to grow it as big as you can and then eat it before it's dead.   So some of the basil leaves are a little yellow/brown, but the majority of it is perfectly fine.  If it smells like basil, it's good!

The sweet potato tendrils are an up and coming super food.  During a recent web search, i learned that "Apart from being tasty, this simple vegetable is packed with nutrition, being the only vegetable with Iodine, a common substance found in seafood. It also contains vitamin A, C and Calcium; In the Philippines, it is widely believed that lactating mothers fed sweet potato tops improve their breast milk production. In fact, it is now a major ingredient of a commercially available food supplement drink in the Philippines. It is also a folk remedy which is used to treat diarrhea and dizziness".  Enjoy!

Sweet Potato tendril recipes
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The warm summer has been good for our eggplant
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late summer pruning
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recently seeded fall beets and lettuce
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