I should ask my friends who have various farmshares how well they like them, which I could do just by going around and asking them, or I could do it here. So
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This is my third year with Brookfield farm. They do squash, melons, carrots, sweet potatoes, potatoes, cauliflower, beets, cabbages, kale, swiss chard and peppers really well. Lettuce and kohlrabi has been dismal, and their corn is hit or miss. Tomatoes were ok, but they had an even shorter than usual season for them this year. No peas, beans or strawberries without driving out there. No parsley or scallions, tomatillos one year out of three (so far).
Their misses usually seem to involve shipping veggies that are past their prime, or unripe, in the name of making a balanced box. It took me a full year to spin up to the idea of getting most of the cooking greens blanched and frozen immediately after getting them home. I still had optimism failures with the eggplants and turnips this year.
Re: Brookfield FarmchenoamegOctober 23 2008, 20:18:57 UTC
For me the best thing about Brookfield is the bulk order; I can usually lay in a winter's worth of turnips and carrots (although not potatoes this year, sniff)
This year was a reasonably low production year, they have a nifty chart listing what the haul was. Which I can't find, so I link you to this pretty picture of the seasonal foods instead. http://www.brookfieldfarm.org/share.html
Re: Brookfield FarmpekmezOctober 24 2008, 01:54:58 UTC
I use brookfield too. I've used them for long enough that I think they're what introduced me to cooking collard greens, turnips, rutabagas, and kale!
I wish they'd do peas, beans, strawberries in the shares, and hope they bring back the edamame. They don't do fruit besides watermelons and canteloupe (and the on-the-farm-only strawberries), and they don't do shallots. Herbs are rare if you don't go out to the farm.
I haven't had too many misses of the sort cfox mentions, except for one time when I ordered 10lbs of bulk tomatoes and didn't realize they were getting themselves kind of bruised and would need to be cooked right away or lose some yield. (what went wrong with your turnip, cfox? mine (then one I've gotten before today, at least) was fabulous.)
Re: Brookfield FarmcfoxOctober 24 2008, 02:14:16 UTC
My spring problem (baby turnips are only part of it) is that I have trouble planning a dish around a small quantity of something weird. So it sits in the fridge, because while I like roast turnips, it's never worth heating the oven to cook four tiny ones at a time.
Their misses usually seem to involve shipping veggies that are past their prime, or unripe, in the name of making a balanced box. It took me a full year to spin up to the idea of getting most of the cooking greens blanched and frozen immediately after getting them home. I still had optimism failures with the eggplants and turnips this year.
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This year was a reasonably low production year, they have a nifty chart listing what the haul was. Which I can't find, so I link you to this pretty picture of the seasonal foods instead. http://www.brookfieldfarm.org/share.html
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I wish they'd do peas, beans, strawberries in the shares, and hope they bring back the edamame. They don't do fruit besides watermelons and canteloupe (and the on-the-farm-only strawberries), and they don't do shallots. Herbs are rare if you don't go out to the farm.
I haven't had too many misses of the sort cfox mentions, except for one time when I ordered 10lbs of bulk tomatoes and didn't realize they were getting themselves kind of bruised and would need to be cooked right away or lose some yield. (what went wrong with your turnip, cfox? mine (then one I've gotten before today, at least) was fabulous.)
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I guess I'm meant to eat them raw?
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