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September 30, 2009
Mile-a-minute (which tastes like gummy bears, by the way!) Pokeweed **Sorrel** 10/6/09 code 1 cup firmly packed **sorrel**, stems and tough ribs removed 1/4 cup chives, chopped 1 egg yolk 2 tsp. lemon juice 1/2 tsp. salt 1 cup canola or grapeseed oil
 * Weeds we pulled up:**
 * Plants we ate:**
 * Sorrel** is a leafy green plant. The one that is at the farm has leaves that grow right from the ground. **Sorrel** is a sour tasting green.Most of the kids thought that is tasted like sour patch kids and wanted to eat it every time we when to the farm. We found information on why the **sorrel** is sour.According to this website, [|findarticles.com], oxalic acid gives the herb its characteristic sour taste. **Sorrel** is interesting because its flavor puts it somewhere between a vegetable and an herb. When it is older it becomes more acidic and has an almost lemon-like flavor. Younger it is more mild and tastes closer to spinach.
 * Here is a recipe to a lemony sauce:**

1. Place all ingredients except oil into blender, and blend until smooth.

2. Continue blending, and slowly add oil through feed tube until mixture thickens, then pour oil in at a faster rate.

3. Scrape mixture out into container, and store in  refrigerator for up to 3 days code **Basil** 10/6///09//

Tomato Basil Soup Recipe

Italian Soup :) // Here's some basil in the hoop house at the farm // // __One of the things we we ate was basil, so here is a recipe!!!__ // // 8 to 10 tomatoes, peeled, cored and chopped, or 4 c canned crushed tomatoes // // 4 c tomato jucie or part tomato juice, part chicken or vegetable stock  // // 12 to 14 fresh basil leaves // // 1 c heavy cream // // 1/2 c (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened // //  Salt and pepper to taste // // Directions: // // Over medium heat, combine tomatoes and juice in a large saucepan and simmer for 30 minutes. In a food processor, combine tomato mixture and basil leaves in several small batches and process until smooth. Return blended mixture to saucepan over low heat. Stir in cream and butter, then season with salt and pepper. Continue stirring over low heat until soup is heated through. Serves 8!!! //

Thai Basil 10/6/09

this is a recipe site using Thai Basil: []


 * //2 tablespoons vegetable oil//
 * //2 shallots finely chopped//
 * //3 garlic cloves finely chopped//
 * //1/2 teaspoon salt//
 * //4 cups cooked long grain rice chilled//
 * //1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce//
 * //1 tablespoon soy sauce//
 * //1/2 teaspoon sugar//
 * //2 eggs//
 * //3 green onions, with 1" tender green part chopped//
 * //2 red Serrano chilies finely chopped//
 * //1/2 cup fresh Thai basil leaves//
 * //1/4 pound fresh cooked lump crabmeat flaked//

// **Scarlet Beans** // not dated we discover this bean when at the farm we were cleaning up some dead bamboo.some of the members of our community services want to take some back to the school.
 * Scarlet Runner Beans** are beautiful purple and black bean that climbing up a bamboo te-pe.


 * Scarlet bean s and potatoes recipes:**

1 cup Scarlet Runner Beans 3 smallish potatoes 3 Tbsp olive oil 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise (optional) 3 garlic cloves, minced 3 Tbsp Oriental sesame oil

**Mustard greens** 10/6/09 Spunky and soulful describe the taste of mustard greens that add a pungent, peppery flavor to recipes in which they are featured. Although they are available throughout the year, they are in season from December through April when they are at their best and most readily available. Mustard greens are the leaves of the mustard plant, Brassica juncea. The leaves of mustard greens can have either a crumpled or flat texture and may have either toothed, scalloped, frilled or nice edge. In addition to providing wonderfully nutritious greens, this plant also produces the acrid-tasting brown seeds that are used to make Dijon mustard!

//** Ground cherries 11 **// /4/09

// The ground cherry is a s //// mall shrub similar to the common tomato, can be grown as an annual or perennial. Plants are usually small, only 1-3ft in height. Not frost hardy. Can be grow in most climates as an annual. They enjoy full sun, fairly warm (but not hot) temperatures, and protection from frost. In areas where frost or freezes occur, plants are easily grown as annuals. Provide lots of water throughout the growing year, except towards fruit ripening time. Grow in most soil types and will do very well in poor soils and in pots. Plants are susceptible to many of the same diseases and pests as the tomato!//

Brooke, Eli and Carter cutting the salad greens!!!
 * Salad Greens **//09//

// **Cauliflower** // // **Cabbage** // // **Collard Greens** //
 * We learned about** **Brassica****, a family of plants including:**

//Group 1: transplanted forsythia, weeded, hacked down a root with a pick axe// //Group 2: spread mulch//

We also learned that worms eat dead matter and break down the components to make soil.

Our current favorite joke: What did one worm say to the other worm?

... Are you my butt?!?

//Slide-show from Ishara://

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November 4, 2009

 * Carrots **

We harvested carrots at the Weaver's Way Farm. To pick them you have to grab the carrot by the shoulders, and "rip" it out of the ground. Sometimes the leaves break off and it makes it hard to get them out of the ground, but you live. After you pick them, you take them in buckets and get them clean by putting them on a surface with holes and spraying them with a hose. you do one side at a time so basically you flip them after you spay them once. Then you bunch them in groups of about 5 or 6 depending on how big the carrots are, and you sell them, hopefully.



11-11-09 On this cold day we learned that inside the leaf pile it was warm.

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