We will be at the New Albany Farmer’s Market this Saturday morning, summer hours have begun 8:00-12:30. Be sure and stop by for your weekly fresh produce.
On the tables this week you will find… tomatoes, corn and peaches!!! also… cabbage, beets, new potatoes, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, kale, cucumbers, bell peppers, Swiss chard, fresh cut basil, mint and CANDY onions. Kenny thinks he’ll be picking a new batch of sugar snap peas too.
Blackberries are ready for picking, we should have some… along with more blueberries. Peaches will be available from now thru August. Our weekly baskets are now available, be sure and pre-order by NOON Friday.
The chickens are loving this weather and are producing well, they are giving us plenty of eggs to bring to market. But like with all good things they sell out fairly early too.
Just a reminder, we have our homemade preserved items available each week as well.
Have a great week and hope to see you Saturday,
Val & Kenny
Fresh home grown tomatoes…
We will be at the New Albany Farmer’s Market this Saturday morning, summer hours have begun 8:00-12:30. Be sure and stop by for your weekly fresh produce.
On the tables this week you will find… tomatoes, corn and peaches!!! also… cabbage, cauliflower, a few peas, beets, new potatoes, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, kale, cucumbers, bell peppers, Swiss chard, more green onions, fresh cut basil, mint and CANDY onions. Kenny thinks he’ll be picking a new batch of sugar snap peas too.
Blackberries are ready for picking, we should have some… along with more blueberries. Peaches will be available… this will be the first picking and they are semi-cling variety. Our weekly baskets are now available, be sure and pre-order by NOON Friday.
The chickens are loving this weather and are producing well, they are giving us plenty of eggs to bring to market. But like with all good things they sell out fairly early too.
Just a reminder, we have our homemade preserved items available each week as well.
Have a great week and hope to see you Saturday,
Val & Kenny
This is another great use of all the abundant squash now available. It makes a great side dish for any meal… delicious too.
3 pounds yellow squash, cut into 1-inch cubes
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 2-quart baking dish.
Place the squash in a large saucepan, cover with water, and boil until soft, about 15 minutes. Drain the squash well, place in a large mixing bowl, and mash until slightly chunky. Stir in 1/2 cup of bread crumbs, onion, eggs, 1/4 cup of butter, sugar, salt, and pepper until thoroughly combined, and spread mixture into the prepared baking dish. Drizzle the top of the casserole with 1/4 cup melted butter, and sprinkle 1/4 cup bread crumbs over the butter.
Bake in the preheated oven until the casserole is cooked through and the top is golden brown, about 1 hour.
Tags: butter, dry bread crumbs, Eggs, onion, pepper, salt, yellow squash
It’s that time of year again… squash is getting plentiful, here is another quick and easy way to use them up. These are much like kale chips, light and crispy. Kids will gobble them up as soon as you set them out. This is a single serving size, you can do multiple squashes for the entire family.
1 squash (zucchini or yellow), sliced very thin
1 tbsp olive oil, or olive-oil spray (we use spray)
sea salt
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Place a rack over a baking sheet. Spray the rack with some olive oil.
Arrange the squash slices in a single layer on the rack. Let sit for 10-15 minutes. Blot dry with a paper towel. Coat in olive oil.
Bake 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool completely.
Before serving, bake again for a few minutes at 350 degrees F to make them really crunchy.
Tags: olive oil - spray, sea salt, Squash
Fresh home grown tomatoes…
We will be at the New Albany Farmer’s Market this Saturday morning, summer hours have begun 8:00-12:30. Be sure and stop by for your weekly fresh produce.
On the tables this week you will find… tomatoes!!! also… cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, beets, new potatoes, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, kale, cucumbers, bell peppers, and Kenny’s CANDY onions. Blueberries are ready for picking, we should have some… at least for our “Basket of the Week”. Peaches are getting close, about a week or so for the first variety. Our weekly baskets are now available, be sure and pre-order by NOON Friday.
The chickens are loving this weather and are producing well, they are giving us plenty of eggs to bring to market. But like with all good things they sell out fairly early too.
Just a reminder, we have our homemade preserved items available along with Kenny’s beautiful We will be at the New Albany Farmer’s Market this Saturday morning, summer hours have begun 8:00-12:30. Be sure and stop by for your weekly fresh produce.
Have a great week and hope to see you Saturday,
Val & Kenny
This is a long-time family favorite, in fact everyone loved it but no one ever wanted to make it. It is a simple recipe but takes a while to prep… I promise it’s worth the effort. We have been eating for years and didn’t realize it was a low-carb salad and rich in nutrients. Enjoy!
1 head fresh broccoli, blanched, cooled and chopped
3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 cup green olives, sliced
1/2 large red onion, chopped
Mayonnaise, to taste (we only use Hellman’s)
Black Pepper, to taste
Paprika, to taste
Salt, to taste
Mix together all ingredients, chill and serve.
Tags: broccoli, Eggs, green olives, mayonnaise, red onion
Bacon Pea Salad
We have been blessed with an bumper crop of English peas this season… one of my favorite salads takes advantage of this blessing. Hope you enjoy as much as our family does.
1 pound of bacon cooked according to package instructions, drained and crumbled or finely chopped
2 pounds frozen peas thawed in the refrigerator overnight (of course I used our fresh peas)
3/4 cup coarsely grated sharp Cheddar cheese
1/2 small red onion peeled, and finely chopped
1/2 cup of mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon paprika
Stir together all of the ingredients and serve immediately, or (preferably) put in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator to give the flavors a chance to meld for an hour but up to three days prior to serving. Give it a gentle stir from top to bottom before serving.
Tags: bacon, chedd, mayonnaise, peas, red onion
We will be at the New Albany Farmer’s Market this Saturday morning, summer hours have begun 8:00-12:30. Be sure and stop by for your weekly fresh produce.
All good things must come to an end… Kenny has mowed and plowed under all the lettuces, mustard greens and collard greens for the summer our spinach has been gone for a couple of weeks. He decided to plant a new crop is Asian greens and is keeping most of the kale and Swiss chard thru the summer. It’s time to make more room for other produce and more tomatoes for later.
Not to worry… we will have plenty at the market! On the tables this week you will find… cabbage, broccoli(few), cauliflower, peas, beets, new potatoes, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, kale, cucumbers, sugar snap peas, green onions, and Kenny’s CANDY onions. Blueberries are ready for picking, we should have some… at least for our “Basket of the Week”. Peaches are getting close, about 2-3 weeks for the first variety. Our weekly baskets are now available, be sure and pre-order by NOON Friday.
The chickens are loving this weather and are producing well, they are giving us plenty of eggs to bring to market. But like with all good things they sell out fairly early too.
Just a reminder, we have our homemade preserved items available along with Kenny’s beautiful handmade wood items. E-mail me for any additional information or to place an order~ Val@russellveggies.com
Have a great week and we will see you at the market,
Val & Kenny
We will be at the New Albany Farmer’s Market this Saturday morning, summer hours have begun 8:00- 12:30. Be sure and stop by for your weekly fresh produce, the greens are out of control and it’s getting real now!
Strawberries are dwindling some will be available… and blueberries may be just about ready for picking. Cauliflower and broccoli are on the list for the week along with several other new items. We will have mixed lettuce, three types of kale, mustard greens, Asian stir fry mix, and black seeded Simpson. English peas should be plentiful as well as spring onions, radishes, rhubarb and more cabbage. Get there early before we sell out.
The chickens are loving this weather and are producing well, they are giving us plenty of eggs to bring to market. But like with all good things they sell out fairly early too.
Just a reminder, we have our homemade preserved items available along with Kenny’s beautiful handmade wood items. E-mail me for any additional information or to place an order~ Val@russellveggies.com
Have a great week and we will see you at the market,
Val & Kenny
This Saturday, June 3rd will be Russell Veggies’ fifth (5) annual Recycle event. Anyone who wishes to recycle any previously used items acquired from us (or others) is asked to bring them to the New Albany Farmer’s Market on that day. We recycle most any items our customers bring, join us and help reuse, reduce and recycle.
Recycling facts that may interest you…
- About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
- The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.
- The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) is “Mount Rumpke.” It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level.
- Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
- More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
- Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
- An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
- There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.
- We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
- At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
- If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you’d get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just in the United States!!!
- The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
- Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
- The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
These recycling facts have been compiled from various
sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental
Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While I make every effort to provide
accurate information, I make no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented
here are exact. We welcome all polite corrections to our information.
