This week one of my favorite local groups, Sustainable Greenlake Food Buying Coop, www.SustainableGreenlake.com is letting me help coordinate a large order of root vegetables directly from the organic farmers in Eastern Washington. This means that organic local, seasonal foods are as cheap for you as they possibly could be.
This is my favorite kind of buying – wholesale group buying. 2009 was the year I discovered buying clubs. It’s where a group of like minded individuals get together to form orders large enough to qualify for wholesale prices from companies, farmers and ranchers. It has allowed me to feed my family almost exclusively from local, organic and usually sustainably farmed, raised or caught foods for less then we were spending before at the grocery store.
This order is for late fall foods – mostly root crops that will all store for several months in a cool garage or shed with good ventilation, longer if clamped or in sand for the carrots and beets. The onions and potatoes should keep for many months as long as they have good ventilation, like in paper or mesh bags, and are checked frequently to remove any molded ones.
Winter squash can be roasted and then pureed and frozen, or pureed and canned. Beets and carrots can be dehydrated then rehydrated into soups or juices (especially easy if you pulverize them in a food processer after drying.) They can also be frozen, lacto-fermented or pickled then canned. Dehydrating, freezing and lacto fermenting will retain the highest nutritional profiles.
Potatoes (Yellow Finn, Alby Gold and purple.) 80 cents a pound.
Winter squash (Spaghetti, Butternut, Blue Hubbard, Sweetmeat, Buttercup, Delicata). 90 cents a pound except for Delicata which is $1.20 a pound.
Beets (Cylindrica, Detroit Red, Golden Beets) $1.50 # limited amounts
Nantes Carrots. $1.75 # limited amounts.
I’ll be posting more details over the weekend about how to order, when the deadline is and when you can pick them up in Greenlake. Get ready!
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1 My Green Lake • Green Lake bulk buy of organic roots and tubers // Oct 19, 2009 at 9:43 pm
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