farm crops: carrot
info: Carrots are a root vegetable with a sweet flavor & dense, crisp texture. One of the richest sources of vitamin A in the vegetable kingdom. storage: Trim the greens & store unwashed in the refrigerator crisper drawer. They will keep for several weeks.
preparation: Wash in cold water & brush clean of any debris. Peel, if desired.
Carrots are quite versatile: you can shred, chopped, cooked or juiced. For cooking, you can boil, steam, roast, stir-fry, or grill carrots. You can also add them to most soups, stews & salads.
recipes: history:
from The World Carrot Museum
Wild carrot has a small, tough pale fleshed bitter white root; modern domestic carrot has a swollen, juice sweet root, usually orange. Carrots originated in present day Afghanistan about 5000 years ago, probably originally as a purple or yellow root like those pictured here. Nature then took a hand and produced mutants and natural hybrids, crossing both with cultivated and wild varieties. It is considered that purple carrots were then taken westwards where it is thought yellow mutants and wild forms crossed to produce orange. Finally some motivated Dutch growers took these mutant orange carrots under their horticultural wings and developed them to be sweeter and more practical. It's a long story... read more