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STORE OPEN 5 DAYS YEAR ROUND!

SPRING HOURS:
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY:
11 to  6 pm
SATURDAYS:
11 - 4pm


Outer Aisle FOODS & GOODS
1192 Highway 4
Douglas Flat, CA
outeraislefoods.com
Christine & Eric Taylor
209.728.9112
2012 BOX DELIVERIES   

Weekly or bi-weekly deliveries to Tuolumne, Calaveras and Alpine Counties.


Benefits of Becoming a Member:
  • Enjoy local and seasonal fruits and veggies all year round
  • Fresh, high quality, home-grown flavor
  • Bi-weekly fall, winter and spring deliveries to convenient drop off locations near you
  • Your choice of the size bag for your needs: mini, basic and full sizes. Add on fruit, roots, and greens
  • Access our on-line web store for many more essential items
  • Cancel when you are out of town
  • Supplement your own garden, you grow greens: we have roots and fruits!
  • Lower your carbon footprint. Save gas, we deliver to you
  • Support local growers, producers and makers.

News From Outer Aisle
Early May newsletter 2012
   
OPEN 5 DAYS :  
Tuesday - Friday 11 - 6pm  
Saturday 11 - 4pm 
   
DIVERSITY: The Key to Happiness!

How do the names Hillbilly Potato Leaf Tomato, Mrs Burns Lemon Basil, Red Janice Garlic, Argentata Swiss Chard, Bennings Green Tint Scallop Squash, Kellogg's Breakfast Tomato and Ananas Chair Verte Melon sound to your ears? Strange and intriguing? These are just a few of the hundreds of varieties we grow on our farm. Diversity is the key to happiness witho
Eric in the garlic field! 
fut it we would be a sad lot! We often get the amazed exclamation over our extensive display of garlic, "I thought garlic was garlic!" Diversity adds excitement and intrigue just like a good novel only you can eat it!

We'll be soon announcing dates for our summer events: Join us for our popular Foraging Tour in the Garden, July and September. Farm to Table Dinner at Milfiori - August 18th!!

If you're interested in seeing the upcoming seasonal menu highlights click here.  

Veggie seedlings: Put in your order soon! Starting on Saturday May 5th we'll have plants available at Outer Aisle.

SEED POTATOES ARE IN! 4 different varieties to choose from. We also have row cover, fencing, irrigation supplies and other tools. We are taking orders for seedlings this year and anticipate doing several plant sales - late April and early May.  
 
Thank you for helping us grow capital!

We raised $200 for the Michelson School! Gardener Tim and the kids are happy to have the extra funds as they prepare the soil and get ready for the planting season.

If you still meant to sign up but haven't - you still can! It's not too late to join the effort to help us raise capital and raise the tunnel houses at the same time!

Read more.... 

JOIN THE GROWING MOVEMENT TO EAT HEALTHY AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
OUR FLEXIBLE SYSTEM:  It's never too late to sign up to receive weekly or bi-weekly deliveries.

Spring Sign-ups (weekly or bi-weekly): Weekly or bi-weekly veggie/fruit boxes to all Tuolumne, Alpine and Calaveras locations. Browse the selection without committing. By clicking on a drop off spot you'll get to the next screen where all the different sizes are described. Please know that you can sign up whenever you want and put yourself on vacation. 
Click here to view and/or sign up anytime  SIGN UP FOR 2011/2012 SEASON 
 

Vegetable & Fruit Highlights  

 

The Harvest!

 

Strawberries are in!  

Gorgeous, perfect texture and abundant sweetness (almost like it has icing sugar on them) and plenty of them.  

 

Snap Peas with their wonderful snap, delicious in stir-frys and salads and one of those only "springtime" crops. Just arriving on the scene is Fava Beans.  For Italians this vegetable signals the end of the hungry period. It is the first substantial protein vegetable after a long winter of stored root crops and greens.  

 

We are fully stocked with in-season vegetables and fruits awaiting your appetites! 

 


CITRUS is still in full swing. In addition to the Valencia's we still have Meyer lemons, the first of the Lisbon lemons and Ruby Red Grapefruit.

The grapefruits come from Terra Firma farms in Winters (and not from Florida!). 

 
    

 

RECIPES

Have a great recipe that you'd like to share - we'd love to publish it in the newsletter!

Tips for Making a Successful Stir-Fry: 
  1. Select 4 different types of ingredients - too many and it doesn't taste as good. Pairing asparagus with snap peas, red onions and scallions would be a great combination this week.
 
2. The trick is to slice the vegetables in a way that maximizes their surface area so they cook fast and still stay crisp. Slicing on the diagonal in uniform pieces and cutting everything before you put the heat on is the key.  
 
3. Make a simple sauce using water/stock and soy sauce, substitute the water/stock for orange juice and add ginger for a different flavor.

4. Get the pan hot, add a little oil (2 TBSP). Use coconut, sesame or olive oil depending on your veggie combination and sauce ingredients. Put all of your vegetable ingredients in at once, stiring to coat with oil and allowing the heat to penetrate the vegetables. After a couple of minutes, add some water or stock - just enough to raise steam and not too much that you drown the veggies and drop the temperature down. After a minute or so, the water will evaporate, add some more until the vegetables are not too cooked but cooked enough.

5. Lastly pour in the sauce, heat and serve with rice. We encourage you to experiment - you'll have it down in no time!!
 
Outer Aisle FOODS & GOODS "Essentials for the 21st Century". Our mission is to facilitate a speedy transition to a sustainable economy by offering the essential tools, ingredients and knowledge to prepare us for the 21st century. 

Behind the scenes of Outer Aisle is Taylor Mountain Gardens. Located just around the corner on Main Street in Douglas Flat, our nearly two acre "beyond organic" farm produces a large variety of seasonal vegetables including these seasonal highlights: summer heirloom tomatoes, fall cauliflower, winter carrots and spring potatoes to name just a few! 

OuterAisle FOODS operates a year round CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. We distribute the highest quality, local, seasonal and regional produce and products to members all over Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties. We only purchase product from farms and producers who are committed to ecologically sustainable practices and go beyond the National "Organic" standards.