July seventeenth, 2023 E-newsletter | Monroe Natural Farms

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Pricey Buddies of the farm,

That is week 6 of 18 weeks of CSA.  This week you can be receiving crimson potatoes, onions, slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, summer season squash, carrots, garlic, kale, and MUSK MELON!!!!!  Let’s go, July!

Fruit Shares:  One other scrumptious week of cherries is headed your means.  They are going to be Rainier cherries, an exquisite white with a blush of pink.  Yum.  

We’d like your assist harvesting garlic on Saturday the 29^th and Sunday the 30^th of July from 8 AM -11 AM.  Come and go as you please!  ***Not this weekend, however the subsequent weekend***First, we roll by the rows of garlic with our useful harvester which lays the bulbs of garlic on high of the soil.  We then come by with trays and gather all of the garlic.  This garlic lasts for the remainder of summer season CSA and right through winter CSA, too.  We might be honored for those who would come out and assist us gather the garlic into trays out within the subject.  We then make stacks of the trays all through the sector and are available choose them up with our tractor.  This can be a tremendous child pleasant job, and we welcome your family and friends members.  Dad and mom, you can be 100% answerable for retaining your children protected and away from all vehicles, tractors, any tools, and volunteers carrying trays.  Deliver your complete crew and make a morning of it!  Be certain that to put on lengthy sleeves and pants, a hat, sun shades, carry plenty of water and snacks for the best way right here and residential. If you wish to use bug spray and sunscreen, please apply them at residence after which wash your palms completely earlier than coming to the farm.  We develop a really scrumptious heirloom number of onerous neck, porcelain garlic.  The bonus is that you may take residence garlic seconds!  Come out and assist us put the unity in Group Supported Agriculture. You do not want to contact the workplace for those who can be a part of us. Simply present up! The extra the merrier!

Flower bouquets accessible!  A few of you might have observed that we’re dipping our toes into flower manufacturing this 12 months.  We’re actually stoked to be rising blooms.  Better of all, we now have sufficient to supply them to you all.  This week, we can be sending out pattern bouquets to every of our distribution facilities.  There can be bouquet sign-up sheets at every distribution heart, as properly.  The bouquets can be $20 every.  Please add your identify to the sign-up sheet if you want to obtain a bouquet made with the flowers at the moment plentiful on our farm.  We select what contains every bouquet.  We are going to invoice your account accordingly.

Muskmelon:  Many individuals aren’t conscious of the distinction between muskmelon and cantaloupe.  There may be truly a massive distinction!  Musk melon has an analogous taste to cantaloupe, however they’re stronger and sweeter with a barely “musky” style.  The upper the sugar content material, the earlier the melon must 

be eaten.   Because of this, you don’t see them on grocery retailer cabinets.  Muskmelon have been initially grown in Egypt alongside the Nile River.  They love sandy soil, sizzling days, cool nights and a great deal of water.  Our farm may be very sandy, and we regularly discover fossilized mollusks within the rocks right here! Musk melon has the identical netting as their cousin cantaloupe besides with ridges that run from high to backside.  Trace:  They’re finest eaten at room temperature.  In the event you like them chilled, minimize them open and allow them to sit for ten minutes.  Like a tremendous wine, they should breathe to boost their taste.

Betty Jo’s Fast Scoop Melon Trick

-Wash your melon properly

-Lower your melon in half and take away all seeds (don’t have a compost? Scatter them for the birds!)

-Seize a big spoon or an ice cream scoop

-Scoop out melon flesh right into a mason jar or storage container, safe lid onto jar or container

 (You will get actually cute with this and use a tiny scoop for little fingers to seize, or current them tapas fashion and put a toothpick in every scoop on a platter with or with out prosciutto)

-Refrigerate

-Get pleasure from at your leisure

The solar goes down lengthy and crimson. All of the magic names of the valley unrolled – Manteca, Madera, all the remainder. Quickly it bought nightfall, a grapy nightfall, a purple nightfall over tangerine groves and lengthy melon subject; the solar the colour of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy crimson, the fields the colour of affection and Spanish mysteries. I caught my head out the window and took deep breaths of the aromatic air. It was probably the most stunning of all moments.

–Jack Kerouac

Thanks for being right here with us!

Kyle, Sam, Jerry, Jacquie, Linda, and The Crew