Week 3 - Fundraiser at Stick and Stone tomorrow!

Food! Drinks! Music! Fundraiser!

at Stick and Stone Farm, tomorrow, Weds. 6/25, 4-7pm

Come for the veggies, stay for dinner, drinks, music and community! All are welcome. We’re so excited to welcome back to the farm:

A seasonal menu from Silver Spoon

Cocktails, mocktails, beer, cider and more brought together by Open Spaces

Live music from The Groove Drivers! Jason Zorn (fiddle), Lloyd Graves (banjo), Valerie Graves (guitar)

A portion of food and drink sales and 100% of in-kind donations will benefit our farms’ Subsidized CSA Fund!

Want to contribute to our subsidy fund but can’t make the event? No problem! Venmo @full-plate, make an in-kind contribution here or send a check to Full Plate PO Box 6898, Ithaca, NY 14851 - just note ‘donation’ with your payment.

Reminder of pickup times and locations & other FAQs

FIND YOUR CSA PICKUP DETAILS HERE

SEE THE CSA HANDBOOK

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

this week’s veggies

salad greens - remembrance
carrots - remembrance
basil - stick and stone and remembrance
frisee - stick and stone
fennel - stick and stone
garlic scapes - stick and stone
scallions - stick and stone

ROTATING (rotating means harvest will be enough for some, but not all locations this week; we’ll be sure to balance the variety landing at each location through the season! )

bok choy - remembrance
lettuce - remembrance
cucumbers - remembrance
strawberries - stick and stone & remembrance
asparagus - grindstone farm

crops are our best estimate & may change a bit after harvest. rotating means harvest will be enough for some, but not all locations this week; we’ll get each crop everywhere soon! salad greens rotate between field greens, spicy mix, lettuce mix, arugula, baby kale & tatsoi

this week’s fruit bowl

strawberries - Reeve’s Farm, Baldwinsville

this week’s Remembrance cheese

Moon Rock - A Swiss Alpine style, washed with South Hill Cider. Grates well and is perfect for a cheeseboard.
or choose - Feta - the crumbly salty classic - ltd availability, FCFS

bulk preorder and pickup

if you pre-ordered last week, this is the week to pick up:

STRAWBERRIES - Reeve’s Farm, Baldwinsville - for pickup 6/25-6/28
PASTURE RAISED CHICKENS - Four Leaf Farm, Ithaca - for pickup 6/25 at Stick and Stone

updates & reminders from the farm…

SILVER SPOON AND OPEN SPACES AT STICK AND STONE 6/25

Mark your calendars for the first Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser of the season!

Silver spoon, a farmer’s market favorite, will be serving up a sure-to-be delicious menu and Open Spaces will have assorted beverages both sober and boozy—cider, beer, mocktails and more! A portion of the evening’s proceeds will support our Subsidized CSA fund, making sustained access to fresh produce possible for many folks in our community.

Have you heard, the last fundraising event with VanNoble Farm’s pop-up at the old Bar Angus raised over $700! Huge thanks to our community partners for their generosity in making the Subsidized CSA program possible!

SIDE DISH CSAs: Double E Shiitakes start this week!

YES, THERE IS CSA NEXT WEEK, 7/2-7/5

Fruit Bowl will be on break; veggies, dairy, eggs and mushrooms are on!
All Free Choice pickups are on as usually scheduled.
Heading out of town? Gift the share to a friend, or know that the default for uncollected produce at free choice pickups is donation to folks who need it. Or, let us know by Monday 6/30 at the latest if you’d like to hold your share or donate a boxed share.

on our plates…

Share what you’ve been cooking, we’re always glad to know, and eager to pass along. Just email Molly. Find this week’s ingredients in bold.

Pesto, all the ways

this recipe is flexible - try different greens & herbs, different nuts and seeds, and reinvent through the seasons with seasonal greens and u-pick herbs!

1/4 cup nuts (pine nuts, walnuts, cashews - you choose!)*
1 cup greens or herbs (basil, kale, parsley, cilantro, arugula or a mix!)
2 garlic scapes or 2 cloves garlic (more or less to your level of garlic love)
Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 to 1/2 cup olive oil (for desired consistency)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast (optional)

Combine the greens, nuts, lemon juice and zest, salt, and pepper in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the blade attachment. Pulse until well combined. Pour in the olive oil slowly through the feed tube while the motor is running. When the oil is incorporated, transfer the pesto to a bowl and stir in the cheese.

*try soaking nuts in water for 1 hr for creamy pesto. drain water off before combining

Shaved Fennel Salad With Frisée, Almonds, & Raisins

1 large fennel bulb
2 celery stalks
Juice of 3 lemons
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 head frisée, trimmed and washed
2 tablespoons golden raisins
1/4 cup toasted almonds, chopped
Parmesan (or Remembrance Farm Moon Rock) shavings, to taste (optional)

PREPARATION

Using a mandoline slicer or a very sharp knife, carefully cut the fennel and celery into paper thin slices. In a bowl, combine the fennel, celery, lemon juice, and olive oil and allow it to sit for 30 minutes or so.
Strain the fennel and celery, reserving the dressing. Set the fennel aside while you toss the frisée in the dressing.
Pile the dressed frisée on a plate and top with the raisins, almonds, fennel, celery, and parmesan shavings, if desired.

U-Pick Gardens

open 7 days/week during daylight hours for all Full Plate vegetable share members. kiddos should be supervised at all times. take what you’ll use, but be mindful of those who come after you. see u-pick details & maps here!

upick rules: not open to the public. no dogs. no picking in tunnels or big fields. please stay off farm equipment and do not block farm roads.

AT STICK AND STONE FARM

Perennial herbs continue to hold down the fort for the early season; things like oregano, garlic chives, thyme, etc.

And snow peas! Find them in the two rows closest to the high tunnels in the ‘Behind the Barn’ field—one last u-pick treat from this field before we begin construction on our new greenhouse.

AT THREE SWALLOWS (formerly Youth Farm) & PRESS BAY COURT

Plants are in the ground! Now we wait for them to grow. We appreciate your patience as we do our best to maintain these off-farm gardens, while also attending to the demands of our main farms.