Expensive Farm Buddies,
Our first week was contemporary and scrumptious however this week is even higher! What’s in your bag this week? Garlic, garlic scapes, squash, (both zucchini, spherical zucchini, or yellow squash), sugar snap peas, Hakurei turnips, and inexperienced butter head lettuce. The scapes are the tops of the garlic that if allowed would turn into a flower. Once we take away them from the still-growing garlic crops the garlic bulbs get bigger. It’s a win-win harvesting them. They’re so scrumptious and eradicating them helps our garlic get huge! Garlic scapes are a fleeting favourite of many. They’re extraordinarily versatile. They are often grilled or roasted and eaten as a vegetable, minced and added to salads & eggs (like inexperienced onion) and are fabulous chopped up and added to any stir fry. You can even add them into pesto or into hummus. Hakurei turnips may be shaved or sliced, dressed with oil and vinegar then eaten uncooked, steamed, or cooked any which approach. We love to easily cube all these new veggies and throw them in collectively in a stir fry with salad on the aspect. The turnip greens are simply revived in chilly water after which may be steamed, or rubbed with oil and salt, then air fried or baked into chips.
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Fruit: We predict to start out getting fruit in July with certainly one of many cherry varieties!
Honey: These of you who ordered month-to-month and bimonthly can be getting it this week.
Zelle funds: We nonetheless have just a few Zelle funds that we haven’t been capable of place with an account. One was made in Might for $215.00 and the opposite was made final week for $200.00. Please, if this may very well be you, name the workplace! You should tell us if the fee is coming from a reputation that’s not connected to your account so we will add that title to your account.
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What’s in your bag and learn how to use all of it: Keep in mind, your bag could seem small now, however it’s going to continue to grow and rising. Quickly there can be extras on the aspect to seize resembling tomatoes and melons. Cucumbers are going to be approaching in full pressure very shortly. It appears to be like like we’re going to have an superior carrot 12 months. Sure crops may very well be delayed resulting from all of the moisture we’ve been getting paired with how unusually cool it has been. This week would be the first time we’ve gotten into the 90’s. This lack of warmth is uncommon for us being in the course of June already. We’d like excessive temps for heat loving crops like peppers, melons, and tomatoes. Please keep in mind that Linda within the workplace received’t be capable to see into the long run and inform you precisely what you’re going to be getting subsequent week or the subsequent. In the event you’re at a loss with what to do with sure greens, ask your distribution heart and keep in mind there are literally thousands of recipes on-line. Google may be useful when in search of a recipe. Contemplate ordering our CSA cookbook that has tons of group sourced recipes for every veggie it’s possible you’ll encounter.
Veggie Wash
Juice from an entire lemon
2 Tablespoons Vinegar
1 cup water
1 spray bottle & scrub brush
Combine and spray onto floor of veggies. Let sit for a minute or two. (Longer if making an attempt to take away wax from retailer purchased veg) Scrub calmly on smooth skinned veggies and extra aggressively on laborious skinned produce like winter squash, cucumbers, root veggies and melons. Leafy greens merely must be sprayed, let sit 5 min. then rinsed.
Why couldn’t the turnip go to the social gathering? It was grounded.
With gratitude,
Kyle, Sam, Jacquie, Jerry, Linda, & The Crew
