Spring is passing to Summer right now. The peas and broccoli are finishing up their runs after a good season. The peas are a record harvest, and the broccoli might be too. Hope you have enjoyed the bounty.<\/p>\n
Summer squash harkens the new season, hopefully followed soon by its cousin, cucumbers. But now is your chance to enjoy a good mix of two different season’s vegetables. Tonight I made a pasta sauce by sauteing onions, garlic greens, broccoli florets and chopped summer squash and then adding enough cream and butter to build it into a sauce. A little salt, black pepper and nutmeg and you have a dish that’s as good as you can get, and filled with share items.<\/p>\n
We went to the open house at Urbavore Farm on Saturday and enjoyed an excellent pot luck, while seeing the farming practices of farmers Brooke and Dan. They have put down a wonderful landscape of orchard, fields and “barnyard.” The no-till practices they use are based on their knowledge that, as a farmer, your job is to feed the soil. Keep it up guys.<\/p>\n
Member Emily Akins’ contribution was a pea salad with a mint vinegarette dressing. I missed it but Rebecca raved, so we got the recipe<\/a>. Emily’s version used scapes instead of shallots and was minus the lima beans. We made it tonight using garlic greens and dill and it was very good.<\/p>\n One another note, we have a telescope here on the farm that we use for just such an astronomical event as the transit of venus. While the telescope is not equiped with a camera mount, I have found that you can take a decent picture through the eyepiece with a digital camera. It was a thrill to see first hand. <\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rJnCdgC-76o\/T87AANdZi9I\/AAAAAAAABTo\/AsIWUxaiEmY\/s400\/pea+salad+060512.JPG\")
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