Comments on: Late Summer Album, Union Square Market (Part II)

By: sister

sister — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:46:26 +0000

kurzhaar, You are right, strawberries should be organic but that is difficult to find, and considering the miniscule amounts one eats compared to other fruit it isn’t worth worrying about. Strawberries are perennial to a certain degree and generally not rotated annually. Better to eat fewer berries. Remember the Alar scare with apples?

By: Mila

Mila — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:32:01 +0000

Gorgeous colors and textures! Imagine what a bouquet those vegetables would make, and then how healthy it would be to eat that melange. I love the color of the cauliflower.

By: Lissa

Lissa — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:45:27 +0000

What does the orange cauliflower taste like? And the hen of the woods mushroom? I’ve never seen these before!

By: kurzhaar

kurzhaar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:54:07 +0000

As I understand it from the owner of the California CSA of which I was a long-time member, the key to organic strawberries is frequent crop rotation to minimize the chance of fungal infections. If there is one crop you should choose as organic, it’s strawberries…apples and such can be peeled, many other fruits and vegetables can be well washed to remove pesticide traces, but strawberries are like little sponges that hold onto pesticides, which are usually fungicides and can be quite toxic to mammals.

By: izang

izang — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:51:04 +0000

the cauliflowers look wonderful….as well as everything else….