Hope you had a fragrent shabbat

Good Week
Always fun to write to you in the rain! Hope we won't have picking difficulties this week...
This seems to be the last week we will have fresh ginger, until next season. I lowered its price since it is no longer beautiful, but by maintaining it properly (dry, in a bag in the fridge) it will last very long.
I am reminding everyone that you can find the expectation list for our Fruit and vegetable Baskets, on the weekly newsletter at the very very end. You can always get there via the link on this weekly newsletter, to your left and then click on the top post.
Furthermore, if you would like more information, nutritional values and stories, when you get there you will find on the left many links of vegetables and other topics. Clicking one of them to present all the relevant posts and everything I wrote about it in the past.

There are many recipes in the tab "recipes" on our site. You can look them up by name of the vegetable. We'd love to post any of your favorite recipes and share them with all the readers.

Dill! Could it be that I have not written about it?

Anethum graveolens ,
This fragrant plant is great for soothing abdominal pain, toothaches and improves milk production of nursing women. Till today it is customary to calm babies with Dill tea and early American settlers used to make biscuits with dill, to be chewed by tiny sensitive gums.
Imagine to yourselves how mothers, lacking sleep from crying babies, after hours of rocking, walking and singing, gave the plant it's name when they were able to have a relaxed, quiet sit down. It's real Hebrew name means "Saturday fragrant", what a beautiful name!
The Talmud says: "Caesar said to Rabbi Joshua ben Hanina: Why the Sabbath stew smell wafts? Said to him one spice and Saturday we have a name we Mtilin and smell wafts into it ..." (שבת קי"ט)
The English name- Dill comes from an ancient Nordic word DILE /DILAA meaning soothe and relax. Recent studies have found that the rich antibacterial compounds protect the stomach lining and relaxes the digestive system.
Unfortunately, the familiar Hebrew name, given by other people and not by the mothers- Shamir, is actually a strong wild bramble that is mentioned many times in the bible along with the plant Sheit, both are weeds that colonize abandoned fields and ruins. Prophet Isaiah mentions them many times in commemoration of the destruction.
We will stick with the nicer name! Saturday fragrant...

Fragrant dill belongs to the Umbelliferae family, together with parsley, cilantro, celery, carrots, and fennel and more ... It grows with lots of branching stems, slender leaves and blooms in the form of an umbrella or parasol. Hence the name of the family. We harvest it before flowering so we can enjoy its leaves and stems, but after flowering the seeds can be harvested from the flowers. The seeds are used extensively.
The greens are used for eating raw, cooked, in tea... and the seeds are used for pickling and seasoning as in the production of curry mixes.
Dills originated from the Mediterranean region and Russia, and has probably been cultivated for a long time. Was common in the kitchens of Babylon and Assyria. Talmud says: "Dill maasers it's seeds and greens and bunches" (my quick translation) (עבודה זרה ז ע"ב) which means that all the parts of the plant were used and should be maasered.
The Greeks considered the dill, for its smell, as a symbol of wealth and prosperity, and used fragrant their homes with oil enriched with dill seeds. Dill also supposedly evokes love and it is believed, even today, that adding dill to the bath water will ensure your lover will not be able to withstand your charm.
Pythagoras wrote that in order to prevent epileptic seizures, you should hold a bunch of dill in your left hand. These seizures were believed to be dominations by demons and even the most beginner witch knew that Dill prevents such dominations. If you have such a problem you should drink Dill tea and wear an amulet of dill branches.
Dill and other herbs from the Umbelliferae family, contain many phytochemicals that block hormonal activity associated with cancer development. Really!
Other than these folk medicine advantages, it is also recommended to use as eye compresses to relieve eye infections and chewing dill to refresh the mouth. Eating Dill at the end of a meal helps with digestion and hiccups.
Dill is rich in vitamins and minerals. Especially potassium, beta - carotene, vitamin C and folic acid.

Hope you had a fragrant Saturday, and have a week without abdominal or teeth pain, no demons and full of love
Yours,
The Garden staff, packers and Maggie

And our basket expectation list, there may be changes ...:
Dill or coriander
Cucumbers?
Tomatoes
Lemons
Beets
Radishes
Lettuce
Potatoes
Swiss Chard
And green Garlic

Larger ones also
Cabbage
Celery
Parsley
Peppers

Fruit baskets:
Avocados Bananas
Oranges
And pomelos