Carrots

Availability: July-March

Storage tips: Refrigerate in a plastic bag. Carrots store very well in the fridge and should at least a month. If you want to store carrots from a bunch for a while, remove the tops before putting them in a bag. Fall grown storage carrots should last many months in cold storage.

How to eat: Carrots are a wonderfully diverse vegetable. They can be steamed, used in stir-fries, roasted, sliced or grated and used in salads, or eaten raw as snacks. They’re great for kids’ lunches!

How to preserve: Best: Store them in your refrigerator as described above!

Other ways are to ferment them into Ginger Carrots, Curried Carrot Sticks, or with cabbage in a sauerkraut.

You can also blanch and freeze them or can them, too, though they will store in your fridge for many months so I don't particularly recommend that method.  Fresh carrots are just so so so good!