Hello Members!
Week eleven is here and we are in our peak tomato season here at the farm! We have been picking them daily to keep them in the best condition we can and with the heat and humidity they’ve been coming fast. 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 and I’ve done a lot of work to build the greenhouses and keep the soil nice to make these extra tasty. 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: This is the item of the week forre, they are starting to peak and i’ll be putting extra in every share so you can all enjoy the bumper crop. I’ve been eating several boxes a day and i just slice them in half and put them on a plate with olive oil and honey drizzle and some sea salt and pepper. If you have some basil or soft cheese like goat cheese or mozzarella balls that goes amazing as well during these hot days.
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
Eggplant: These long slender eggplants are so good for italian dishes and also asian dishes. think stir fry curry or whatever your favorite italian dish is, or maybe try something new, the internet is full of resources.
Garlic: Our garlic is delicious with everything and good for your health.
Serrano Chile Peppers: Our serrano chiles are extra long and large for a serrano with medium heat if you like heat maybe high heat if your not a spicy food lover.
Yellow Carrots: Our carrots this week are a bright yellow variety, not quite as sweet as the orange but very beautiful for sure.
Microgreens: We have pea shoots again this week for you all as we continue to have a fantastic micro green year
Kale: Curly Kale, I always say what don’t kale ya makes you stronger so enjoy this protein packed green sautéed with some garlic and maybe in your salad torn up or baked for kale chips.
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 sweet peppers for shares soon but just a few HOT 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. Until then we can barely keep up with the outpouring of tomatoes so we’ll keep up with that and the weeds as much as we can out here in the mud and humidity. -Kyle
