What’s in the Box: Cherry tomatoes, heirloom and slicing tomatoes, purple stripe garlic, eggplant, summer squash, zucchini, english cucumbers, leeks, jalapeño pepper, curly parsley, green pepper, fennel, and red russian kale.
What’s going on at the farm: Another busy and challenging week on the farm this week as we prepare for fall while managing summers bounty. We have some more new crops coming for you in this weeks offerings including a little heat with our fresh jalapeno’s. Our summer onions were harvested this week and they will be sun-curing in the greenhouse so any onions you receive after this week do not need to be refrigerated once they have a dry skin. In fact we will be skipping onions this week in order to give them time to cure and dry down. During that process they sweeten up as well as excess moisture is released. The same goes for the garlic which is fully cured now and ready to store until next spring in a room temp place out of direct sunlight. Sweet peppers are starting to show signs of changing color so they should be coming very soon and our melons are still setting fruit and slowly sizing up. We like to grow a lot of different peppers both sweet and spicy so there is quite a selection to look forward to. In general the small peppers are going to be the hotter ones and we will try to tell you here in the newsletter what you can expect from the different varieties as they come in. I don’t have enough time to write a complete rundown of the crops this week as we have some very big harvests to manage at the moment and we really need all the time we can get outdoors. Weedwacking, mowing, weeding crops, and harvesting crops usually every other day to keep them in prime condition for consumption. See some of you at the drop sites and thank you!
