I am trying to get this published before going in to harvest at the farm this morning, so I haven't had time to put in recipes! Fortunately, this week's share is mostly easy and straight forward stuff that shouldn't be hard to use up....
IN ALL SHARES-
Cherry tomatoes- Our early cherry tomatoes are finally producing enough that I hope to have enough for all shares. We grow mostly Sungold cherry tomatoes (the round orange ones) but this year we've added a mix of some other colors, mostly at the request of Vincent, chef of the Orchard Kitchen and a big fan of our tomatoes. Don't store tomatoes in the fridge! They're best left out at room temperature.
Lettuce- We are into a nice new bed of head lettuce with lots of Bergam's green, our big dense Greenleaf lettuce.
Snap peas- I think this marks the end of the Super Sugar snap peas in the farm share for this year...we are into our final planting, and they are already beginning to slow down with the hot dry weather. We've had a good run this year, and we have more rotations of beans for late Summer!
Carrots- The beds of carrots we're picking out of now got a bit weedier than we were expecting....beginning last year we started having problems with a terrible weedy bunch grass, especially in the carrot beds. It is a real pain in the neck. This grass goes from tiny to huge in no time, and has a big root system that makes it really hard to pull out without disturbing the crops. So the carrot size is not quite as consistent as usual, because some of the weedier sections sized up a bit slower than others....that said, they are very nice carrots that are otherwise tasty and pretty.
Garlic- More of our Softneck garlic....our garlic has all been harvested from the field now, but we've gotten so busy in the last few weeks we still haven't had time to clean our last variety....it's just sitting in a cart waiting to be cleaned and hung up in the barn and has been for weeks. Oh well, we'll get to it sooner or later.....this is one of our earlier varieties that has been hanging for over a month, and should be almost fully cured.
Broccoli- Not having been on the farm since Friday morning, I'm not really sure how much broccoli to expect this week, but I think we'll have enough to get at least a small head in all shares...
Cucumbers- Cucumbers are back in the share....they are quickly racing towards peak production, so we may be picking a whole lot of cukes very soon. Right next door, our melon plants are looking great and will hopefully be ripening fruit soon...we are also experimenting with growing some pickling cukes for Britt's pickles right now! Let me know if you are a big pickling fan if you'd be interested in buying a case of pickling cukes sometime in the next few weeks.
IN THE LARGE SHARES-
Celery- I am always very excited for the first celery in the Summer. Celery is a trickier crop that takes quite a while to reach harvestable size (we seeded the tiny celery seeds way back in early March), but there is such a difference in quality from the grocery store celery. Right now the stems are flavorful and crunchy, but not quite as big and juicy as they will be later on. Great for eating raw or cooking...
Radish- With so many veggies in season now, it's been a little while since radishes have appeared in the share.
Green onion- These are from our second planting of scallions....I don't think we'd ever done a later planting of them before, but we decided to this year, on a whim. I'm glad we did...it's nice to have more scallions now for mid Summer, since our first bed has been done for a few weeks now.
Enjoy!
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