Hard to believe, we are almost halfway through the farm share season! We have lots of good stuff in the share this week. We are currently being overwhelmed by massive quantities of strawberries on our plants, so although we weren't planning on including strawberries in this week's share, we figured we could add them in and no one would mind! If you are interested in buying a flat of strawberries (12 pints) they are available for pickup in the farmstand for only $30 (basically our wholesale price) and you can email us in advance so we can set one aside for you.
Everything else continues as usual on the farm...keeping up with the irrigation in this dry, hot summer... We recently planted a quarter acre of sunflowers in the field nearest the farm stand, so take a peak when you come by. They are growing fast and are about an inch or two tall already...with any luck they will be in bloom by mid October, as they are autumnal colors of brown and magenta. I don't know where exactly we are going to sell thousands of sunflower stems, so if you have any ideas let me know, but at the very least the field will be incredibly beautiful! We are also almost done planting all of our Fall crops to keep us going until November. Everything is going great...although for the last week or so I have been very, very tired....it's that time of year.
Here's the share:
Carrots- Back after a two week break! We had a gap in our carrot planting because our last beds got so weedy. These are our first carrots out of our new beds, and they are looking good.
Potatoes- More Willowood potatoes in the share. These potatoes are much more flavorful than the ones at the grocery store. Great for potato salad, mashed potatoes, hash browns, home fries, or one of my favorite potato dishes...latkes! Latkes are a Jewish style potato pancake, usually served with sour cream and applesauce. They are pretty quick and easy to make. Here's a recipe:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Potato-Latkes-104406
Cherry Tomatoes- Finally, we have enough cherry tomatoes to give them out in the share! We wanted to give out tomatoes last week but didn't think we'd have quite enough to go around. They are worth the wait. Sungold and Sweet Baby Girl are the varieties, they are both sweet and very flavorful. Easy to use in a salad or great just for snacking.
Summer squash/zucchini- Hope you're not tired of zucchini yet because the plants are still producing tons of squash! We had a friend in town recently who made us a batch of zucchini carpaccio...it was delicious. She uses a mandolin at home to slice the squash super thin, but we don't have one and she was still able to do it with a sharp knife. Great recipe for a hot day, we served it with some cold pasta and it would be great garnished with some of the cherry tomatoes! Recipe below:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Zucchini-Carpaccio-107802
Arugula- Nice bunch of arugula, great for a salad or two, or you can toss it in a pasta or omelette.
Torpedo onions- More of these delicious fresh torpedo red bottle onions: "Rossa lunga de tropea" I think is the Italian name on the seed packet. Mild sweet flavor makes them easy to use.
Green beans- Well, we have tons of fabulous green and yellow beans right now, but I'm thinking we won't have them for too much longer....so we will try to give you plenty of beans for the next few weeks in case they're gone by September.
Strawberries- As mentioned above, these are a bonus item in this week's share!
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