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Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00

Watermelon Juice

Together with our neighbors and buddies at High Mowing Organic Seeds we have a mission to figure out how to preserve some of the organic produce they grow for seed crops.  In order to harvest organic seed for their business, High Mowing grows lots of squash, melons and tomatoes (and many other crops).  Their normal harvest process for these vegetables is to harvest them in the field, and send them through a big crusher that screens out the seeds, leaving piles of squash, melons and tomatoes in the soil to compost. This past season, we brought their entire crop of OrangeGlo watermelons (one of the best flavored watermelons around) to the farm.  We crushed them here and scooped the watermelon flesh out and then the flesh was passed through our puree machine in our commercial kitchen.  The seeds came out beautifully intact and the remaining product is the delicious treat you will find in the week's share, pure sweet watermelon juice!  The juice comes to you frozen and you should keep it frozen until you plan to use it.  It won't have a long shelf life, a few days in the fridge at most.  But it won't last long either.  It's delicious on its own and terrific in seltzer.  Kids will love frozen watermelon ice cubes.

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