I just returned from another trip to Rose Paradise Farms; this time I spent $11 on this pile of produce. I lined everything up on the counter just to enjoy looking at it: a huge pile of kale, a pile of spinach, green garlic (the long grassy things hanging down), one bunch of beets, a huge bunch of parsley, a really huge pile of chard, plus a some cilantro and dill that were coming up from last year that she gave me for free. I'm going to make a salad with the parsley, will cook the beets, not sure what to do with green garlic, and I'm going to freeze the greens.
But first, everything had to be washed two or three times outside with the hose, because some of it was really dirty. The spinach, being small, was growing very close to the dirt, the beets were in the dirt, the chard was pretty dirty as well. The kale was small but on stalks several inches above the ground so it wasn't too dirty.
