Week 11

There is a farm share customer who always jokes that the purple carrots must have been planted too close to the beets.  Well, using that logic, today you also have beets planted too close to the orange carrots!  Interestingly, the orange carrots in your box most weeks, are descended from a wild carrot from Afghanistan that was purple.  I have thrown around that tidbit of information since we started growing purple carrots but last winter I read a book called Eat on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson.  I was prepared to dislike it because we had a few customers who seemed fanatical about it.  It turned out to be really interesting and I recommend it.  I won't bore you with a full critique and there were some parts of it that  annoyed me but the historical information on how certain vegetables were developed and how sometimes nutrition was lost in the process was fascinating.  She has a lot of interesting information on carrots including how the orange carrot came to be and also how much more nutritious purple carrots(higher in antioxidants) are than orange ones.  Given that, I thought she might have a lot of negative stuff to say about golden beets but apparently they have some health benefits.  Personally, I love them.  They are not as earthy as red beets.  They are mild, sweet and look beautiful when sliced in a salad.  As a bonus they don't bleed so if you find red beets to be too messy golden beets might be up your alley.

We frantically pulled onions last Thursday just in case it really did rain on Friday.  We were a little doubtful but what shower we got - such a nice change of pace to where rain gear.  Looks like we are back to hot and sunny for a bit.

Small shares will have a choice of either cherry tomatoes or slicing tomatoes.  Large shares will get both.

Have a great week.

Head Lettuce
Purple Carrots
Golden Beets
Ridiculously Large Sweet Onion - Some of these are so big they make me laugh.  I know we might not share a sense of humor when in comes to vegetables but if you like sweet onions these will put a smile on your face.
Red Slicing Tomato 
Cherry Tomatoes
Tomatillos - make some salsa - it is easy and delicious
Choice of Melon - We have lots of watermelon, some Tuscan melons, some piel de sapo and maybe a couple other random types.
Cilantro - Large Only
Bell Pepper - Large Only