Wednesday Farmstand, Summer Bouquets, Spicy Salad Greens & Local Sushi
#56: Summer Happenings @ Featherstone Garden
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Pre-order Flower Bouquets by 9am Wednesday for Farmstand pickup
We’re now offering pre-order bouquets so your fresh blooms will be ready for pickup at our Wednesday farmstand upon your arrival. Pickup is at 4178 Lakepointe from 12-5:30pm on 8/24.
Visit our Farmstand this Wednesday
When?: Wednesday from 12-5:30pm
Where?: 4178 Lakepointe Street Detroit (map it!)
Stop by our MorningSide, Detroit garden tomorrow (Wednesday, August 24). We’ll have a rotating variety of fruits, veggies, herbs and flowers from our garden and from local purveyors.
We’re up to our ears in greens at the farm right now, and this week we’ll be selling a NEW spicy salad mix with mizuna, wassabina mustards , pac choi and purple oxalis, (pictured above). We’ll also have:
heirloom cherry tomatoes (our specialty)
Asian eggplant
black beauty eggplant
Kentucky wonder green beans
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
banana peppers
poblano (ancho) peppers
Thai HOT peppers
collards
red and green okra
cucumbers
corn
fruits from local purveyors: watermelon, cherries, apples, oranges
cut flower bouquets (Pre-order here!)
lemon & black currant jam (from Three Sisters Garden)
a selection of greeting cards by Renee (Woodbine Studio Co.)
Check out Ronin Sushi’s current specials featuring Featherstone Greens!
By Renee S.
A number of Detroit chefs we work with love using our microgreens, herbs and edible flowers to elevate the flavor profile and look of their dishes. Last night, we went out for sushi at Ronin Sushi in Downtown Royal Oak and their team coursed out a phenomenal meal for us. Ronin has been one of our customers for nearly 5 years and it’s always an exciting experience to see how they utilize the greens we grow for them! Each month in our newsletter, we will be featuring a local restaurant that uses our produce. We hope you’ll be encouraged and enticed to try some of these spots for a night out. 😋
During last night’s dinner, I started off with our servers recommendation of their spicy jalapeño margarita, which coincidentally matched my pistachio-green dress :). If you like a spicy cocktail, I highly recommend it. Food-wise, we started off with their featured roll for the month of August—a roll filled with avocado, pickled onion, roasted jalapeño, Thai basil, toasted coconut, topped with with coconut curry shrimp, and garnished with our opal basil. The roll was on-point and the shrimp was perfectly spiced. The seared salmon sashimi was seared in a sweet & spicy sauce with shishito peppers, the fish was impossibly tender, the flavors well-balanced, and the dish was garnished with our bright purple alyssum flowers.
One of Annie’s favorite rolls was the vegan crunchy shinto roll, which was impressive to say the least. I rarely order a vegan roll because I love a more traditional sushi roll with raw fish, but this one was more than satiating and was filled with lettuce, carrot, crunchy tempura bits, garlic mayo, wrapped in soy paper, and topped with avocado. If you have the chance to visit Ronin this month, we can’t recommend their featured roll of the month enough, and it was nice to see their accommodations for vegan and vegetarian eaters. The vibe of their establishment is perfect for a special occasion dinner or date-night. We hope you’ll try them out if you haven’t already!
Thanks for reading!
For more about our garden, check out our website and follow us on instagram (@featherstone.garden). Feel free to email us or comment below with any questions or suggestions. If you’re interested in volunteering at our garden, please fill out this submission form to coordinate a 2-hour block with us.
Have a great week,
Annie, Aaron, Renee + Chili & Bean (our farm cats ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞)
