What’s in the Box: Cantaloupe, green pepper, slicing tomato, heirloom tomato, red cabbage, purple glazer garlic, summer squash, patty pan squash, zucchini, cucumber, sweet yellow onions, red torpedo onions, cherry tomatoes, leeks, serrano chile pepper, parsley, and celery (bi-weekly only).
What’s going on at the farm: Welcome to the second half of the CSA season everyone! We have some tasty new crops coming to you this week including cantaloupes! These beauties are so firm and sweet and will likely be the best you’ve had if I may be so bold. They are all ripe and ready to cut immediately and picked at the perfect level of vine ripeness. As I mentioned last week the onions your receiving now are sun cured and dry onions along with the garlic they do not need to be refrigerated. Neither do the tomatoes or cantaloupes unless they are cut open. Cherry tomatoes are also pouring in now and ready for your enjoyment. I don’t think I need to suggest to much for all the tomato lovers out there. I’m sure you can figure out your favorite way to enjoy them. The last of our celery is going out to bi-weekly members only this week, it was a fantastic celery year so enjoy the last of these sweet crunchy stalks. Plenty of green peppers coming in right now too so expect a hearty portion of these perhaps for some stuffed peppers or stir fry with the squash, onion, chile peppers celery? I only mention it because I made that exact dinner this week and it was delicious. I also added garlic and basil to mine. Overall it was another very busy week on the farm here and some more intense heat to work through. We managed to get all of our fall onions harvested and set out for curing this week. First to prepare for this we topped all of our summer onions which involves clipping the top off each and every one. I also managed to get in another planting this week pulling off a four hour seeding session after a 12 hr day at market Saturday. Red radishes, arugula, a brassica greens mix for salads, and a second seeding of beauty heart radishes were all planted. We also got all our fall carrots weeded which is a very meticulous process of pinching them out around the baby carrots which are very small. I’m hoping to get in a late planting of carrots this week too as we have more field space yet to work this week. One thing making it more difficult right now besides all the heavy harvests is the lack of rain. We have not seen it in weeks now but it looks like the heat is breaking this week so we should be able to catch up on watering very well. Our early green filet beans pittered out pretty quickly in this dryness but we have some fantastic looking crops of beans coming in for later as well including italian pole beans, dragons tongue beans, filet beans, and green beans so no shortage of these for future shares. Enjoy the summer fruits and veggies as we stay focused on fall preparation and harvest here on the farm!
