Hello Members!
Week eleven is here and we are still in our peak tomato season here at the farm! We have been picking them daily to keep them in the best condition we can. We almost never refrigerate our tomatoes and i would suggest also not doing that unless they are cut open or overripe as it makes them less sweet. Room temperature is the best way to store them and let them ripen. It looks like a hot and humid week to end July as we head into August so surely we will pace ourselves through all these 90 degree days and keep the water flowing to help the sweet and hot peppers, come along faster. Here is the crop list for this week.
Cherry Tomatoes: Our cherry tomatoes are just bursting in the greenhouse and they taste so good! Besides being good fresh for caprese salad with little mozzarella balls and basil….. These can be roasted into a paste in the oven for sauces with some garlic and basil if you cook them on low for a few hours, and are great as a healthy snack too!
Heirloom Tomatoes: Not unlike our cherry tomato crop these are yielding some high quality fruit. So many ways to enjoy these and one of the simplest is to just cut them thick and add cucumbers, oil, salt, and pepper for a nice tomato salad.
Red Onion: The last of our Torpedo Onions will go to you our members this week! They have great flavor raw or cooked
Summer squash and zucchini: A mix of summer squash and zucchini will go out this week in shares.
Garlic: Our garlic is now dry and can be kept at room temperature in your kitchen
Jalapeno: Our jalapeño are large this year, i’m really liking this new variety
Yellow Carrots: Our carrots this week are a bright yellow variety, not quite as sweet as the orange but very beautiful for sure.
Microgreens: Large shares will get two types and small containers will get one as we continue to have a fantastic micro green year
That all our crops for this week folks. The first sweet peppers, and hot peppers have been coming in slowly so hopefully we will have enough of these things for shares soon but just a few peppers for now. I hope everyone is enjoying the outdoors and time with family as much as possible this summer. I’m hoping to have enough time to plow some more open ground this week because we’ve been working hard to clean up the fields from the first half of the season and plant for fall and winter! I’ll likely plant some more salad greens for summer and fall like mustard greens, lettuce, and spinach but we really need the weather to cool down before those can grow well. -Kyle
