What’s In The Box? March 13-19

St. Patrick’s Day Feast
Just in time for St. Paddy’s Day, this week’s box bursts to life with beautiful spring ‘greenery’—from crisp cabbage and tender leeks to bright Bibb lettuce and kale. To complement this colorful bounty, you’ll also find ingredients to help you craft a feast inspired by the Emerald Isle: Irish soda bread, farm-fresh eggs, locally-milled all-purpose flour, organic dried apples and hazelnuts, plus other produce such as potatoes, parsnips, carrots, and turnips. As they say in Ireland, sláinte (to your good health)!

Here’s what you’ll find in your box this week:

Irish Soda Bread

Baked in nearby Snohomish by our favorite bakery, this beloved quick bread is crafted in the traditional style from buttermilk, flour, sugar, raisins, and egg.

Bluebird Grain Farms Pasayten Hard White Flour

This all purpose flour from a plow-to-package grain farm located in Winthrop, Washington boasts high protein, mild flavor, and a soft texture that allows for ultimate baking versatility. Use it in quick breads, pie crusts, cookies, muffins, yeast breads and pizza dough!

Sauk Farm Dried Honeycrisp Apples

Made from the organic apples also grown on Sauk Farm, these dried apple chips are a great healthy snack, made without added sugar, additives or preservatives.

Dragon’s Head Newtown Pippin Sparkling Cider

Newtown Pippin apples are fermented using the Méthode Traditionnelle process. The resulting cider is elegant and bone dry with persistent bubbles and singing acidity.

Farm Fresh Eggs

As they balance their time between foraging in their outdoor run during rain breaks and then snuggling up in their coop in the evenings, our small flock of heritage breed laying hens is made up of three breeds: Black Copper Maran, Ameraucana, and Delaware. They especially enjoy produce trimmings and fresh greens to supplement their diet of organic layer mash, and continue to give us fresh eggs in beautiful shades of brown, beige and cream that we collect throughout the day.

Nookachamps Farms Organic Hazelnuts

A heart-healthy snack that provides a natural source of Omega 6, these high-quality hazelnuts are grown by a family-run farm located in the Skagit Valley.

Organic Greens

Mixed radicchio, Bibb lettuce and kale.

Seasonal Organic Fruit & Vegetables

This week’s produce selection also includes: Green cabbage, red potatoes, carrots, turnips, leeks, onions and parsnips, plus lemons.

Garden-Grown Herbs

Italian parsley and thyme from the walled garden.