Local Eaters/Recipe Mavens Wanted

Many farms devote considerable resources to finding recipes that will help customers/shareholders use their vegetables, especially vegetables that may be new to them. If the farm is small, the farmer is often the person supplying recipes. Sometimes it's a volunteer, or occasionally a paid staff person. This work is almost always done by a single individual working alone, scouring their cookbooks, recipe boxes or on-line resources to find recipes. Of course, not every farmer has the resources or inclination to provide recipes.

I would love to see us collaborate to create one big recipe resource for eaters in the region. Lisa Cohen, a shareholder and volunteer at the Newton Farm, has set up and started the Shared Harvest wiki, which includes a collaborative recipe list. Lisa has enthusiastically agreed to expand this resource to encompass many CSAs and farms in the area.

Are you interested in lending some support and energy to this project? Any of you Belmont CSA shareholders (summer or winter) have a few favorite recipes to share? Other, nonBelmont CSA helpers are needed, too. How about a few of you community gardeners? Farmers' Market shoppers? Shareholders from other CSAs? Farmstand shoppers?

Let me show you what we have in mind. I posted a recipe that Winter shareholder Carolyn Bays sent me last year:

Go to http://newtonfarm.pbwiki.com
Click on List of Recipes
Click on Carrots
Click on Holiday Carrot Soup

If you're interested and itching to post recipes, just go to the Shared Harvest site and get started. Anyone can post a recipe. You will find directions when you click on "How to add a recipe".