Sneak Preview of the First CSA Harvest

Reader Contribution by Ilene Freedman
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It’s mid-May, time to harvest first crops from the rows of vegetables in the farm garden. CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) harvests begin next week. This week I started sneaking “test harvests” here and there. Sneak preview of the crops. WAHOO! My mouth is watering. Oh, I love my sweet succulent Fun Jen nappa cabbage. It’s like a salad — the lettuce and the celery all in one. This nappa is so delicate I never cook it. I use it raw in salad, rice wraps, sandwiches. It makes good kimchi also, but when the traditional nappa cabbage is ready (our variety is called Blues), I’ll prefer that for kimchi.

Kohlrabi is an interesting brassica, much more popular in Europe than the USA. We grow Kolibri Kohlrabi which has a purple skin. Some other varieties are white. We introduce our CSA members to these purple alien bulbs the first week of CSA harvests. I give slices as samples and then they love it. Kohlrabi is best in the cool spring months, fast growing, crisp and sweet. You can eat the greens, sautée or cook up as you would any other greens. For the bulb, you peel off the tough purple skin and eat the white bulb like a sweet mild radish. Really, it tastes like a broccoli stem. My kids eat them like apples.

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