What’s in the Box: Cherry tomato mix, slicing tomatoes, red cabbage (bi-weekly only), purple glazer garlic, red torpedo onion, sweet yellow onion, red Italian peppers (pointed red), sweet bell peppers ( random choice of orange, red, yellow), green peppers, lacinato kale, serrano chile pepper (small green HOT), cayenne pepper (small red HOT!), flat italian parsley, and leeks.
What’s going on at the farm: The heat and humidity makes for some tough work especially as the season has taken some toll on our bodies all ready but we forge on as always and into week thirteen. Our sweet peppers are pouring in this week along with the heat. We have had a long wait for these beauties since they were seeded the first week of April and you will receive a nice assortment of these to enjoy. I have to say I think its our best sweet pepper crop ever, the health of and load of fruit on the plants is outstanding in every way. Here is an idea for what to do with all those peppers, one of my favorite dishes stuffed peppers!
Of course there are many variations on this so feel free to create your own version but this one uses parsley, red cayenne peppers, and chunky tomatoes, onions, and garlic. I wonder where you would get all those ingredients? Our dragon romano beans are flowering with their beautiful purple and white flowers and looking beautiful so we should have a plentiful crop starting next week or so. Our pole beans and filet beans are setting flowers this week too! We thinned out our rutabaga and turnips this week allowing for better sizing of these fall roots. We mowed lots of weeds down this week as well keeping the fields clean for future use and cleaned up beds and drip line from the field. There is still much work with all the harvesting of course but I was able to get in several more fields of plantings this week with the seeder including multiple beds of arugula, salad mix, braising mix, white icicle radishes, broccoli raab, and loads of white salad turnips. After continually soaking them and rotating sprinklers in the heat for several days those beds have all ready sprouted in 3 days! The onions field was cleaned out last week by mowing and lifting mulch out of the ground and was plowed in this week. Our summer squash, zucchini and cucumber plants were also removed from the field this week as we also mowed the plants and removed the mulch beds and drip lines from the field for these crops. Our 6th annual farm potluck dinner is coming up on Saturday the 19th of September! Please join me and the other crew members on the farm, meet your fellow members, and walk the fields. We are sending out details by e-mail to all of you soon so save the date, I hope to see many of you there and until then Enjoy the veggies!
