Moore Farms and Friends Weekly Newsletter

Orders This Week

Some weeks it's just a whirlwind around here! We got late word that Miles Berry Farm sent us the very last of their Strawberries but it was not nearly enough to include in all of the Farmer's Pick orders. So, Custom Strawberries got in and we replaced with Florida Oranges instead for the $20 Farmer's boxes. Miles did have the first of their Blueberries ready so $30 boxes got those even though they are small 1/2 pint packages (sorry!). We don't usually get Miles' Blueberries because they are so expensive: our Fordham Blueberry Farm packs a full pint for the same price. The last curve ball pitched to us this week was the Florida Cucumbers were way short on our order so about half of our Farmer's boxes got Florida Slicing Tomatoes instead. Whew! Thankfully we don't have too many weeks like this and hopefully not another one again anytime soon. The good news was that we had lots of great stuff from our other farms and actually more than we expected so that's cool!

Meet Mr. Komatsuna

That bunch of Greens in this week's Farmer's Pick boxes is probably new to many of our Members. A Relative of Mustard, Komatsuna is kind of like a cross between Pac Choi and Arugula: it has a fleshier stem like Pac Choi but a lot more flavor like Arugula. It's great chopped fresh for salads or stir fried or sauteed.

This Weekend's Events: We'll leave our Spring Farm Day Registration open til Thursday morning at 9am for any folks who still want to come out on Saturday! Newly added activities include a Box Graffiti Contest (bring your stickers and glitter glue!) and a Cover Crop walking maze. The weather forecast is BEAUTIFUL so enjoy a drive in the country (we are 90 miles from both Atlanta and Birmingham) and a fun time with us on the farm. We will email out the directions and details about getting here Thursday evening!

Alive! Expo: we are in need of Volunteers who can man our info booth for Saturday. Any enthusiastic Members who are interested let us know, you will get a pass for the whole expo for the day. We'll be at the event at the Georgia World Congress Center on Sunday so come out to see us! (See details in the Upcoming Events section below.)

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Our Farmers Pick Orders for this week's delivery:

$20 Farmer's Pick
Florida Oranges (4)
Lettuce (GA) 1 head
Green Onions (AL) 1 bunch
Kale (AL/GA) 1 bunch Cucumber 1 (FL) ~or~
Slicing Tomatoes 2-3 (FL)
Arugula (AL) 1 bunch
Komatsuna (AL) 1 bunch
Cilantro (AL) 1 bunch

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$30 Farmer's Pick

Florida Oranges (4)

Lettuce (GA) 1 head

Green Onions (AL) 1 bunch

Kale (AL/GA) 1 bunch

Cucumber 1 (FL) ~or~
Slicing Tomatoes 2-3 (FL)

Arugula (AL) 1 bunch

Komatsuna (AL) 1 bunch

Cilantro (AL) 1 bunch
Grape Tomatoes (FL) 1 pint
Potatoes (AL) 1.5 pounds
Blueberries (GA) 1/2 pint

Our $20 Farmers Pick Order this week.

Upcoming Events

We have updated our website for detailed info on the following Events Calendar:
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Cooks Warehouse Cooking Class

June 15th 6:30pm - 9:30pm Midtown Location

Farm Fresh Pasta Date Night (Hands On!)

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Alive! Expo

Georgia World Congress Center
April 28th and 29th
(Volunteer needed for Saturday!)
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Moore Farms and Friends

Spring Farm Day

Saturday, April 28th 2012

Noon - 4pm Eastern time

Come on out to the Farm for a beautiful day of fun and food. We'll tour the place to see what's going on in the field, check out the new Baby Chicks and enjoy a delicious Farm Lunch. This is a Members-only family event, $20 per adult with kids 12 and under free (remember, Investment Members are two-for-one!). We are about 90 miles from Atlanta and the farm address to map us is: 239 County Road 561 Woodland AL 36280. Reservations are required as we expect a crowd. Please add a ticket to your order for the total number of adults attending and note in the Comments for the number of 12 and under kids. Come on over!

**We will leave the Registration open until Thursday morning at 9am for folks who still want to come out!**

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We are very proud to bring our farmer's foods to your family and we always want to know what you think about what we do. Send us your recipes, pictures and stories and thank you for your support!

photo by Anthony-Masterson Photography

Will and Laurie Moore

Moore Farms

www.moorefarmsandfriends.com
Farm: 256-449-9417

Cell: 256-282-7889

Weekly Recipe

Asian Inspired Big Salad

We call it a "Big Salad" if it's enough for a meal: this week's boxes have such a beautiful array of salad items we just had to make this favorite recipe for lunch.

     1. Wash, trim and finely chop the white part of two Green Onions, 1 bunch Kale and 1 bunch Komatsuna.
     2. Prepare Rice Noodles, Udon Noodles, Orzo or other pasta (we have used Angel Hair in a pinch!).
     3. Prepare Salad Dressing: 2T Soy Sauce; 2T Honey; 2T Sweet Chili Sauce; 1T Sesame Oil; (1)T Fish Sauce; (1)T Siracha or other hot sauce; (4)T Rice Vinegar.
     4. Mix together the chopped vegetables, noodles and dressing, cover and chill to marinate.
     5. Wash, trim and chop Lettuce, Arugula, tops from Green Onions and Cilantro, mix together for Salad Greens.

To serve: place Salad Greens on individual plates and pile the veggie noodles in top. Garnish with Sesame Seeds, sliced Cucumbers, Oranges and/or Tomatoes.

Farm Photos

Our broody hen number two for the year, this little lady sat on 20 eggs for 21 days! She hatched 8 before she decided that was enough and moved off of the nest: we put the rest under another hen who wanted to "go broody" and two more hatched. We thanked the foster mama hen and put the babies back with the mama who incubated them the whole time! The picture above is from the day before they started to hatch (see the egg she is sitting on?).

All ten little chicks will hide under the Mama Hen! There are 8 black chicks, one striped chick and one white chick.

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