Little Gem Lettuce
Carrots
Peas
Basil
Zucchini
Garlic
Kale - Large Only
We hope you all enjoyed your first box.
We have been doing salad Fridays on the farm. I started making a salad on Fridays in the spring when we had early greens. Those first March greens are one of my favorite memories from the first year I started working on a farm. I let it fall by the wayside after a few salads, but a couple people on the crew were game to keep it going. Last week Clare made a coleslaw and it reminded me how good simple things can be. All it had was cabbage, carrots and a mayo based dressing and it was delicious. The cabbage really is at its prime right now. Fall cabbage is great, but spring cabbage is so tender and juicy.
Garlic Scapes
Carrots
Cabbage
Collards
Snap Peas
Turnips
Broccoli - Large Only
Lettuce - Large Only
I am sure you all eat well year round, but hopefully you are about to feel like you are eating even better! I am pretty stoked with the first box.
We have a great core crew, but things were starting to get a little wild looking around here as we struggled to balance harvest with weeding. We have three new people starting this week and I think we should be able to get everything into shape.
If any of the produce you get is bad/damaged, I encourage you to reach out and let me know. We try very hard to keep our quality high, but things slip by us on occasion.
Feel free to send me recipes you made. I really enjoy hearing about the food you make with your produce.
Thank you for supporting local agriculture.
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Carrots
Baby Lettuce Mix
Scallions
Herb
Lacinato Kale
Frisee - Large Only Maybe it is a good week for a salade Lyonnaise. There aren't too many salads that I feel like satisfy me enough to call a meal but this one does. This is the first time we have grown frisee in the spring. The one we ate was less bitter than I typically think of it being.
Radish - Large Only
Final week! Thank you so much for supporting our farm this year. It felt much more orderly on the farm this season, our first season with nothing planted in Olympia. I am hoping to send out a survey in the next few weeks. I know they are kind of annoying, but I will keep it short and would really value your feedback.
I am excited we have some radicchio for you this week. I know it can be a bit bitter for some people, while other people love it. We have a few varieties planted this year and you are getting the first one to mature. I myself am sometimes on the fence about it, but when it is prepared well, it can be delicious. One of the best things I ate last year was at a farmer potluck Our friend Joseph from Wobbly Cart Farm brought a radicchio salad with roasted cipollini onions, pears tossed in lemon juice, toasted walnuts and goat cheese. It was lightly dressed with olive oil and lemon juice.
I want to thank Erin, who packed and delivered your CSA each week both this year and last year. Erin is most likely moving on to a different job after spending three years with us and we wish them the very, very best. They have contributed so much to our success and spent a lot of time helping us get our new farm set up during the past two winters.
We will be at the Chehalis Market until the end of October on Tuesdays. If you find yourself down south on a Tuesday, please stop by and say hi.
Radicchio
Parsnips
Leeks
Orange Kabocha
Red Onion
Savoy Cabbage
Potatoes
Parsley - Large Only
Kale
Celery Root
Daikon
Butternut
Garlic
Cauliflower
Carrots -Large Only
Arugula or Lettuce - Large Only