What to do with all your CSA produce (kurt gabel in the mag!)

Kurt recommends Kale chips for a bountiful green harvest in Westchester Magazine...

http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/January2010/HOw-to-DO-Just-About-Anything/index.php?cparticle=5&siarticle=4

How to...Use All the Vegetables from Your CSA

Don't get us wrong: we love community-sponsored agriculture. But everybody has a vegetable he or she just can't stomach (Yuck! More Swiss chard?), and there are just some weeks when you need an army to finish it all. We asked local farmers and foodies how to make the most of the CSA share.

1: Drizzle It with Oil and Then Some. "I've never met a vegetable that couldn't stand a little olive oil, onion, and garlic saute with a little goat cheese tossed in," says Lisa Schwartz of Rainbeau Ridge in Bedford Hills.

2: Dry Out. "We make a lot of kale chips, " says Kurt Gabel of Katonah's Green Fork Farms, who makes them by drying and salting the kale.

3: Be Creative. "Some of the best recipes I've created are the result of an overloaded CSA box or an overzealous trip to the farmers' market," says Nicki Sizemore, Rainbeau Ridge's cooking-class chef. "How else would I have discovered that kohlrabi is delicious in a stir-fry or that Brussels sprouts can make a terrific salad."

4: Throw It All in a Frittata. Frittatas are "fast, easy, and nutritious, and can be thrown together with a limitless combination of herbs and vegetables, " says Sizemore. For Sizemore's own frittata recipe, visit westchestermagazine.com.

5: Can It. You can never eat all those fresh groceries now, but you might have a hankering in a few months. Can those veggies, or make jam with your luscious raspberries. "In late August and September, there is a multitude of tomatoes, and it's great to put them up," says Marian Cross of Amawalk Farm in Katonah.

6: Find a Better Program. You can buy a membership with Rainbeau Ridge's Community Agricultural Partnership, for example, which gets to access to the garden, where you can then purchase veggies a la carte; that means you never need to look at kale again if you don't want to.

Last year's Best of Westchester Post (kurt gabel in the mag!)

http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/July2009/Exceptional-Eco-Friendly-Finds/ Read below:

If you want to be green, but your thumbs are not, farmers Kurt Gabel and Madeline Fletcher can help. Whether you're starting from scratch or rehabilitating an abandoned garden, the Green Fork Farm-ers can come to your property and help you design and build backyard vegetable patch. They'll provide mostly organic seedlings for tomatoes, arugula, spicy mesclun, carrots, peas, herbs, and other goodies of your choosing. If you really need some hand-holding, they also offer gardening lessons or regular garden maintenance--including, if you'd like, a weekly harvest basket left on your doorstep. Talk about being a locavore.