Week 8

If you have a raised bed, a big garden or a farm at some point in the summer you look around and you think holy moly that is a lot of zucchini!   We try to find a nice balance with the farm share.  Yes, it is a box of seasonal produce but it should be a box of produce and not a box of zucchini!  However it is summer and you should get to experience that feeling of needing to find new ways to prepare squash or making several loaves of zucchini bread for the freezer...but only if you want too.  We will have all you can eat squash day.  There will be big and small, yellow and green and you can help yourself to what you think you can use.

Carrots - Purple Haze is the variety.  
Lettuce
Beets - I am hoping to stick with the colorful theme and give you rainbow beet bunches with red, golden and the chioggia (pink on the outside and candy cane on the inside) but if they have not sized up properly you will all get chioggia bunches.  We haven't grown these in a few years.  They are sweet, less earthy than a red beet and they don't bleed.
Tropea Onions - an Italian heirloom.  These are great on the grill and fairly sweet raw.
Mixed Summer Squash 
Purple Potatoes
Pickling Cukes - Small Share Only
Kale - Large Share Only - We seeded this on June 1st and planted it out about a month ago.  Summer isn't prime kale season but this variety (White Russian) tastes mild even when it is warm out and because it is the first picking it is extra tender.  It is good stuff!
Green Cabbage - Large Share Only
Cilantro - Large Share Only


We picked some corn the other day to check it out and it should be coming to a box near you with in the next week or two.

Eat Well.