Twenty Bag | May 14

In the May 14 Twenty Bag: Butterhead lettuce mix, new fingerling potatoes, red spring onions, broccolini, carrots, sage, lion’s mane mushroom from Super Mushroom Bros. in Charleston, cucumbers.

Thank you Harleston Towles and Rooting Down Farms!

The tender new potatoes really shine when simply sheet pan roasted with a bit of good olive oil, Kocher salt and freshly ground pepper. For more of a meal, try this recipe for potato leek soup if you still have last week’s leeks in the fridge.

A quick search of sweetgrass + grits will take you to plenty more recipes—all curated with an eye toward the weekly Twenty Bag harvest.

Harleston’s storage tips: If greens or herbs of any kind begin to wilt at any point or at pick up, put them in a big bowl of ice water for 20-30 minutes.  Almost all produce is washed and should go in the refrigerator. Carrot, beet, and radish tops should be removed upon receiving Bag.  If healthy and green, use carrot tops for pesto or juicing.  Topped carrots, beets, radish, and other root crops will hold well in a plastic bag in the fridge for months.   Potatoes in a cool, DARK place.  Light will cause them to turn green if not used right away.  Onions, broccolini, sage, and cucumbers can all go in a plastic bag of sorts to prevent wilting and drying out.  Mushrooms in a small paper bag.  Lettuce mix can stay in it's plastic bag.