Special Deliveries to your Community:

Please preorder from this list at least 24 hours before the delivery by emailing me. (I may be able to take orders even closer to the time, just send an email to see...) I'll email back the actual address and your total. Please use the ladybugbuyingclub@gmail.com address. Payment is all cash when picking up the stuff. Minimum order is $15.

~ Organic Ripe Strawberries $24/flat picked ripe the same day... about 14 baskets worth... from Live Earth Farm

~ New Potatoes: German Butterball $12/5# **Andy's new potato blurb is below

~ Mint! $1.50/bunch or $3/3 bunches (mint tisane || strawberry mint cooler || mojitos || strawberry mojitos ... and more recipes.)

I'll have all three things in the above list at Piccino on Thursday, June 3rd from 4-6pm. All by pre-order, I don't know if I'll have extras...

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Andy's New Potato Blurb:

True new potatoes are a rare treat. A new potato is not a small potato but a fresh potato harvested from a green, growing potato plant. A somewhat scuffed, frayed appearance to the potato skin is a frequent consequence of harvesting such tender spuds and is unavoidable because the skin has not yet hardened. If left to mature new potatoes would get a little bigger and the skins would get tougher making for typical potatoes that are easier to harvest and ship. Unfortunately for the potato connoisseur the potato, once cured, always loses some of its tender moisture. New potatoes wilt and must be treated like green vegetables and stored in a bag in the fridge. When I get them as a first treat of the potato crop I never store them at all but eat them promptly. I like to steam them briefly and then roll the hot little potatoes in a little butter, a pinch of salt, and twist of pepper and voila! Do potatoes get any better? A friend from Idaho said when she was a girl they would eat new potatoes raw. I've tried it - the experience is not unlike jicama.

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For the convenience of cooks who would like to can, pickle, juice, dry, or otherwise consume bulk quantities of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits we are planning a series of special deliveries of bulk quantities of tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, peppers, basil, strawberries etc. whenever our the harvest permits. If this service looks interesting to you, please sign up to be included on the list of people to get a special email alert. We have three separate lists: San Francisco, the Peninsula, and the Monterey Bay Area. If we’re going somewhere that's not convenient for you, delete that particular email. If something looks good to you, email us ladybugbuyingclub@gmail.com and reserve what you need. Whole cases only, please. If a whole case is too much, find a friend to split it with or consider our CSA program. Let the cooking begin!

to sign up: San Francisco || Peninsula/SouthBay/Los Gatos || Monterey Bay Area

** warning: this is a double-opt in newsletter thing: please do check your spam folder if you don't get that email to confirm your subscription to your alert preference. Such is the spammy world we live in: I'm trying to do the right thing with a 'clean' list. thank you.

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