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  • From: Karen Sutherland and Roots Farm <rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:28:59 -0400

The leaves are great steamed, cooked with rice, in soups, etc. but also are good raw in salad. I'd bet a wilted salad of the leaves would be very nice, but haven't tried. A Chinese restaurant here buys them in quantity -- I 've been meaning to ask how they use them.

Broccoli is rare & expensive here. We are able to sell our organic heads for $8.50/lb (supermarket importing and selling at $12+/lb.) Sounds like a lot, but so many broccoli plantings fail due to too much rain when heads maturing. At least now we can sell the leaves!

Best wishes,

Karen


Karen Sutherland and Roots Farm
Organic Produce
Cockrane, Dominica
rootsfarm AT marpin.dm
rootsfarm AT protoscape.com



On Jul 22, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Willie McKemie wrote:

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 09:06:33AM -0400, Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm wrote:
As we clean our harvested broccoli heads and side shoots for market, we
remove a lot of younger broccoli leaves. This year we started selling
them at $3 for a 12 oz bag. Everyone who has tried them has come back

Intriguing! Thanks for the idea!

What is done with them? Steamed like cooked broccoli? Raw as a salad
ingredient? Both? Other?

We have traditionally sold broccoli heads and shoots in 1lb bags for
$2. Last year, I decided that that wasn't profitable and cut back to
8/10 lb in spite of perceived pressure from cheap grocery store
broccoli. This year, I just quit picking it because it was very low
profit compared to other things I could put my labor in. Due to
requests, I started picking it again and charging $3 per 8/10lb bag.
And, it has sold very well. That seems profitable so I'm planning a
late summer - fall crop. The cool wet summer here in central Texas
has kept broccoli going far later in the season than "normal".

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