Edgar Farms Asparagus News June 4, 2009 | | Dear Friends: We have a great supply of perfect, delicious, sweet and tender asparagus at The Old Strathcona Farmer's Market 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM and the City Market Downtown on 104th. St. 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM this Saturday June 6, 2009. Remember, our season ends about the end of June. | | Another favorite recipe We have a good supply of our big bags of seconds this week. They are more economical to use for soups and also this great relish recipe. Gourmet Asparagus Relish
This relish is delicious and is great on hamburgers, hot dogs, smokies, as an appetizer served over cream cheese on a cracker, etc.
10 cups Edgar Farms asparagus - chopped very fine
4 cups onions - chopped very fine
5 Tbsp. coarse pickling slat
Combine in a large bowl and let sit overnight. Drain, rinse in cold water and drain through cheesecloth. Place in a large pot and add:
2 small green peppers - chopped very fine
2 small red peppers - chopped very fine
2 ½ cups white vinegar
5 cups white sugar
2 Tbsp. celery seed
4 tsp. corn starch
2 ½ tsp. mustard powder
1 Tbsp. turmeric
3 tsp. nutmeg
½ tsp. ground white pepper
2 Tbsp. mustard seed
12 to14 250 mL. jars & lids
Heat on medium heat stirring often until relish boils. Boil uncovered for 30 minutes, stirring often. Ladle into 250 ml hot jars. Carefully clean rims of jars. Seal with lids that have been heated in boiling water for 5 minutes. Process jars in a boiling water bath for 5 minutes. Cool and label jars.
Yields 12 to14 - 250 mL. jars.
|  Asparagus Quirks!! We will have a great supply of lovely straght Asparagus at the market this week but we wanted to share with you an interesting issue that we sometimes deal with. A small portion of our asparagus field is more exposed to the wind and now that it is so very dry the sand is blowing. When the sand hits the side of the spears they will actually bend over into the little injury and into the wind. These spears taste just as good, they are just bent over. We bag them as seconds and they make great relish or soup and are great in stir frys. |  Edgar Farms Asparagus Festival Thank you so much to all of you that made the trek south to our farm this past weekend for our second annual asparagus festival. We were completely overwhelmed by the tremendous number of people that came. Due to popular demand, we are already starting to make plans for next year, the date is May 29 & 30, 2010. Picture is of me (in yellow) giving a tour out to the field. For one happy customer's great pictures and commentary of the event please visit http://backseatgourmet.blogspot.com/
|  Petting Zoo was a big hit May helps with the asparagus every year and also has a farm just west of us. She takes great delight in sharing her animals with all the children that come ot our festival. | Thanks so much to our team members  It takes team work to put on an event and we were incredibly fortunate to have had the best of the best crew helping out all weekend !! Everything seemed to run very smoothly, my voice wore out from conducting so many tours and answering so many great questions. | A Festival Testimonial
Hello - after many years of buying your delicious asparagus at several farmers markets, we decided to make the trip out to see for ourselves how it is grown. Thank you for opening your farm to us - we enjoyed the day immensely! And we brought home bunches of asparagus for the next weeks meals -yum!
We are so grateful to have such delicious produce grown in our own backyard and now we know how it grows!
It was a great day - thanks again - we hope your year is a successful one!
Michele | Other happenings on our farm  Along with our asparagus we have 25 acres of market garden peas, sugar snap and snow peas and pea tendrils plus about 2 acres of yellow, green, french filet and broad beans that are all hand picked. We market them through Innisfail Growers at Farmers markets in our area. Innisfail Growers is a marketing co-op that we have been members of since 1993. The picture is of me and the Matermac precision planter that I use to plant the pea and bean seed. I put in the first planting around April 10 and plant every week until Father's Day in June. | | Doug's Farm Blog  http://dougsfarmblog.blogspot.com/
Check out what is happening on the farm at Doug's blog. It's not fancy just what we are doing on the farm and in our lives. For more pictures of what's happening on our farm check out our Edgar Farms Flickr web site http://www.flickr.com/photos/37363547@N03/
| Please be sure and stop at the booth and have a sample of our delicious homemade asparagus pickles.  Sincerely, Elna Edgar
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