What’s in the Box: Cherry tomatoes, purple haze carrots, slicing tomato, heirloom tomato, purple glazer garlic, summer squash or zucchini, english cucumber, sweet yellow onions, red torpedo onions, eggplant, leeks, serrano chile pepper, basil, and celery.
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! 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 unless they are cut open. Cherry tomatoes are also pouring in now and ready for your enjoyment. Plenty of tomatoes still coming in for you all this week and sweet peppers are ripening and may even be added to the box this week although the yields are still increasing slowly we should see a spike in ripening later this week as temperatures rise again into the 90’s. We are nearing the end of our celery this week, it was a fantastic celery year so enjoy the last of these sweet crunchy stalks. Our purple haze carrots are back again this week too and they store best cold and humid with the tops removed if your not using them immediately. The tops are edible as well and good for stock or even carrot top pesto! Overall it was another very busy week on the farm here, the body aches and heat take their toll during these warmer months but the summer crops love the warm weather! We managed to get all of our fall onions harvested and set out for curing this week and our crop looks nice this year. First to prepare for this we topped all of our summer onions which involves clipping the top off each and every one. The weeds and empty spaces we have cleared out from all of this harvesting during this peak month of the season have gotten a bit out of control so we will be doing lots of mowing and tilling this week and working hard on the harvests so we can open more time for planting fall crops. Enjoy the summer fruits and veggies as we stay focused on fall preparation and harvest here on the farm!
