What’s in the Box: Salad mix, topped red radish, butternut squash, yellow storage onion, red storage onion, blue coco romano beans, purple glazer garlic, green pepper, sweet peppers, jalapeño pepper.
What’s going on at the farm: Rain, rain, rain. It seems more like a monsoon season then fall in the midwest lately but our fields are draining well and no standing water anywhere. The immense amount of rain has brought a halt to our ability to till and work the fields but at least they are draining and not flooded. Butternut squash, our third variety of winter squash is going out this week, these are so easy to prepare and so good just roasted face down in the oven at 350 for about an hour. Serve with butter and maple syrup or brown sugar. They also make an excellent creamy soup and pair well with red sweet peppers. More salad mix coming this week for fresh salads and radishes which have been topped and bagged to keep them crisp. Our beans are still flowing in this week and we have more of the blue romano beans for you despite the strong storms nearly tearing all the vines down from their trellises. Peppers will be included as a random assortment this week including green and sweet peppers. That means only the jalapeño peppers have heat this week, all the others are sweet. More red potatoes, garlic, and onions for all too. Our salad mix is a mix of lettuce and arugula this week. Last week was also half/half arugula lettuce although we had it posted as all lettuce we had to make a change to come up with the right quantity of mix for shares last week.
This week is filled with more clean up tasks and plenty of beans and peppers to pick. We are working on taking down the tomato vines from the greenhouses and removing other crops from the field as well. Our newer plantings of salad greens, beauty heart radishes, turnips, and spinach are slowly sizing up in the fields but with all this rain the weeds are still germinating just as fast and we will be weeding these late season crops as well this week. We were able to take a little time off this weekend from farm work and market to have our annual farm potluck and bonfire and it was a blast. Good food, friends, and family made for a perfect night celebrating the coming of fall and the near completion of another good season. Two weeks remain after this one. Week #19 which is our last week for bi-weekly shares, and of course our final delivery for full season members the week after. Enjoy the food all!