WELCOME TO RUTIZ FARMS
HAPPENINGS ON FARM:
To introduce everyone to our delicious Jicama, we will have free samples of sliced Jicama, sprinkled with a little chili powder....be sure to look for the sample bowl starting this Friday at the stand.
Our local grape grower, Peri Kost, has brought us some of her great tasting table grapes to sell at our stand. We have the green Thompson Seedless and also two varieties of seeded grapes...don't be put off by the seeds ( they are very small and you can easily swallow them) and these varieties taste amazing! Try a sample...you'll like them.
John and Heather Teixeira will be bringing their local beef cuts to the stand this Friday...here is their info for this Friday:
This week, for the first time, we will be offering Fall Family Feast beef value package. For $100 you will receive:
2 packages of our wildly popular beef sausage
1 roast (either chuck or rump)
1 package precut stew/kabob beef
We will be adding a 'Beefed-up" value pack within the next couple of weeks!
Prime rib roast for your holiday meals will be arriving soon...be sure to place your order to reserve them. We will have a limited number, so place your orders early! Our updated website is up and running...check us out! www.teixeiracattleco.com
Our website will allow you to pre-order and pre-pay online, allowing us to "meat-up" with you if you cannot make it to Rutiz Family Farms on Friday.
The pumpkins are ready to find their new homes...if you "engraved" a pumpkin last month, they are now ready for you to go out into the field and retrieve them. There are also plenty of other pumpkins ( without writing on them ) if you want to take one home. You can bring the family out to our pumpkin field and choose one right out of the field. The pumpkins are priced at 50c/ pound ( most pumpkins will cost between $3 to $5 each ). Any pumpkin you choose should easily last till Thanksgiving time or longer.
Blackberry u-pick this Thursday and Friday ( and Saturday if supplies last). Come early for best picking. The price will be $4/ pound for the blackberry
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The Jicama flesh is crunchy, mild, and sweet, and is often served with a little lime juice and chile powder to accompany Mexican dishes. Wash off the dirt and peel the outer skin and then you are read to go! My favorite way is to cut it up into "sticks" and use the jicama raw as a "dipping" vegetable. How about a jicama and corn salad: cook up a ear of corn and remove the kernels with a sharp knife, peel and dice your jicama, add some mango, sweet red peppers, chopped onion, cilantro and lime juice...will make for an interesting salad!
This week's eggplant can be grilled or simply cut into 1 inch size cubes and added to a veggie saute together with onions, green beans, garlic and salt and pepper. The eggplant really doesn't have much flavor by itself, but it will take on the flavors of the other veggies mixed with it.
You may have heard of a grassroots movement to spread the love of books and learning all over the world. Well, Rutiz Family Farm is joining in with our own book exchange beginning Friday. Our goal is to share food books in all their forms; cooking, planting, harvesting, raw food recipes, juicing, whatever book you have that you'd like to freely exchange with your community. "Take a book, leave a book" p.s. We were inspired by one of our customers who has a free little library in her front yard!
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PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT OUR STAND FROM OTHER FARMERS AND BUSINESSES:
Heirloom garlic from Pacific Organic Farm in Creston
Blueberries from Gary Teixeira in Santa Maria, pesticide free
Peaches from John Tenerelli of Littlerock ( Calif) pesticide free
Apples from Mike Cirone of See Canyon, pesticide free after bloom time
Juices from Chadmark Farms of Paso Robles, pesticide free after bloom time.
Almond Brittle from Paso Almonds of SLO...freshly made each week by Rusty and his crew.
Avocados from David Righetti of SLO
Goat Cheese from Steve of Happy Acres Farm in Templeton.
Mandarin oranges from Friend's Ranch in Ojai, pesticide free
Dates from the Flying Disc Ranch in Cochella Valley, pesticide free
Sweet Pea Bakery is at the farm every Friday, a little something to take care of your sweet tooth!
"Artisan" breads from the Eclair Bakery of The Village of Arroyo Grande every Friday and The Little Red Hen on Tuesdays and Saturdays
Vegetable and herb starts from The Transitions Mental Health Growing Grounds of Santa Maria...pesticide free!
Fresh fish and canned albacore for sale every Friday. 100% wild caught by San Luis Obispo County commercial fishermen. Or join the Fish CSA and get weekly deliveries; contact Margie at slofreshcatch@gmail.com or 481-5827."
Honey from Alisha of Rock Front Ranch near Cuyama Valley and from David's Blue Ribbon Honey of Arroyo Grande. ( also bee pollen from David's Honey).
Sunflower "sprouts" from Carl and Ruth...one of our neighbors at the farm.
"At Rutiz Farms, our goal is to provide the highest quality fresh produce while using sustainable farming practices, including legume green manure cover cropping, organic fertilizers, no pesticides and no GMO crops." Our goal is simple...to bring to our customers ( and their families ).. fresh, nutritious, and safe food at a reasonable price and good value.
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Available at the Stand
Here are the items that we should have on the "table" for this Friday:
blackberries and raspberries--$4/ basket
green beans--$3/ pound
Zucchini--$1.50/ pound
"Sierra Gold" potatoes--$1.50/ pound broccoli--$2.50 / pound baby broccoli--$4.50/ pound carrots--$2 / bunch beets--$2/ bunch leeks--$2/ bunch onions-$1.50/lb baby mixed salad greens--$2/ bag of about 1/2 pound cucumbers--$2/lb
fennel bulb--$1 each fresh herbs--$1/ bunch.. Italian flat-leaf parsley, cilantro, rosemary, arugula, chives, thyme, oregano, sage, dill
"living" basil--$2.50/ bunch
Mandarin oranges--$2.50/ pound
peaches, --$3/ pound
Navel oranges--$1/ pound
Honey: $13 for a 1 pound jar
Eggs-Free Range $6/doz
Flowers: $5 to $8/ bunch
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Harvest Box Info
You are welcome to come by and pick out individual items from the table or continue to pick up your reserved Harvest box or both( add items that may not be included in your Box that week)..The Harvest Boxes, which cost $15 / week , will be available for pick up during the Stand hours on Fridays only. I would ask you to kindly let me know by Thursday evening of each week, with a E mail response( use the link in the right hand column of this newsletter where it says Order Your Harvest Box) if you want a Box for the week. Please take note: this ordering link is only usable for the current week's newsletter....After Friday morning of each week, the ordering link becomes unusable!
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Order Your Harvest Box
Click Here (this ordering link is only active until 7am Friday of the week that this newsletter was originally sent out.)
Produce in the Harvest Box this week:
a bag of our salad mix
sweet red and orange peppers
"Blue Lake" green beans
tomatoes
cucumbers
eggplant
purple and yellow "spring" onions
Jicama
Zucchini squash
nectarines from John Tenerelli
PLEASE bring back the empty boxes each week.
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Stand Hours
OPEN RAIN/SHINE
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: noon to 6pm
Saturdays: 10-4
FARM STAND LOCATION:
1075 "The Pike" in Arroyo Grande. We are located on the south side of The Pike, between Halcyon Road and Elm Street. Visit our web site at www.Rutizfarms.com for a map to the farm. Our mailing address is: Rutiz Farms
333 Miller Way
Arroyo Grande, Ca 93420
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