Main Season Share Week 10

Baby Fennel

Beets - We were originally going to wait another week for beets, but they look so good right now, particularly the greens.  

Cherry Tomatoes

Red Gold Potatoes 

Red Leaf Lettuce - This variety appears in your boxes more than any other because we grow more of it than any other lettuce.  The variety is New Red Fire and I think it is the most dependable in both production terms and in flavor.  We had some last night with these lettuce wraps and it was delicious.  

Onions - We don't have much in the way of onions this year and they will be few and far between.  These will be smaller bunched mild onions.  

Flat Leaf Parsley - Large Only

Lacinato Kale - Large Only

Next week will bring collards and hopefully slicing tomatoes for everyone, along with carrots and more cherry tomatoes.  Napa cabbage is on the horizon as well.  

Main Season Week 9

Hope you all are enjoying the summer weather we are having.  I love it, but I will admit I am pretty whooped after being outside all day.  We ended our day with some ice cream novelties/popsicles which is a bit of a summer tradition at the farm when we have our first really hot day with a full crew working. 

I love summer eating.  Tomatoes and mozzerella,  cucumbers in rice vinegar with a pinch of sugar, grilled zucchinis and peppers, peach and blackberry pie and many other things make me so happy this time of year.  I wish you a week of delicious summer eating!

Mini Head Lettuce - We grow a mini oak leaf, mini butter and mini romaine (also called little gems).  You will get a selection of two or three of them depending on how dense they are.  The mini butters and oaks are part of the selection we grow to cut for salad.
Zucchini/Summer Squash
Cucumbers - We grow three different types of cucumbers.  There is the traditional American slicer that you are all familiar with and have received.  Some of you have also received Persian cucumbers which a smaller and have a thin skin and then there are Japanese cucumbers which are longer and have a thin skin.  Both the Persian and the Japanese are burpless. 
Carrots - Purple Haze is our favorite purple carrot.  While it isn't as deeply colored as the fall one we grow, it tastes good cooked or raw all season long.  It is an outstanding carrot.
Basil
Cherry Tomatoes - I am hopeful for a full pint for everyone but if not the mall shares will have a half pint which I realize means the tomatoes last about as long as it takes for you to get them out of the bag and on the counter.  There will be lots to come soon.
Snap Peas - Large Only - If they pick decent on Wednesday.  Otherwise you will have collard greens.

Main Season Week 8

We are hoping to get everyone cauliflower this week.  We will start with Wednesday which I am sure we will have enough for and likely most of Thursday's boxes as well, but we may have to give it to some shares next week instead.  If you don't have cauliflower in your boxes there will be something else instead.  We roasted some last night and it was amazing.  I am happy that veggies still surprise me by being extra delicious.

Leaf Lettuce
Green Bell Pepper
Green Cabbage
New Potatoes
Cucumber
Cauliflower
Garlic
Arugula or Frilly Mustards - Large Only
Little Gem Lettuce - Large Only

Main Season Week 7

It hasn't exactly been tomato weather, but we picked our first few pints of cherry tomatoes on Friday.  It will probably be another couple weeks before we have enough for all the shares.  It has been good pea weather and we have those for you again this week.  I spontaneously planted green beans on Tuesday.  We had eliminated them from our production plan, but what is a summer without at least one round of green beans!  That probably puts them picking around late August.  Seeding rutabagas and weeding parsnips are also on the agenda for this week.

Head Lettuce
Snap Peas
Carrots
Zucchini
Chard - Since are missing the greens on your beets, chard seemed like a natural choice.  They are closely related.  In New Zealand, white stem chard is called silverbeet and rainbow chard rainbowbeet. If you pull a mature chard plant up it has a mangle/beet root that roughly matches the stem color. 
Bulk Beets
Broccoli - large share