A nice mid Summer share for you all this week, all shares will be getting:
Fresh beans- This will be our first pick on the bean plants this year. We are growing a mix of green, yellow, and purple beans, and if they are all producing we'll put a mix of colors in your shares. Our first bean seeding germinated a little poorly because the soil was still so cool in early May, but the plants are so productive we should still have plenty of fresh beans.
Cauliflower- Our first cauliflower planting is on, and it is a beautiful crop of nice sized heads. Cauliflower takes longer to head up than broccoli, and is much more sensitive to the vagaries of weather and pests in the early Spring, so I tend to plant it out a bit later in order to have it in July. We have quite a few later plantings in for the rest of the Summer and Fall, too, so you should see it a few more times in your shares! I guess this is a vegan blog, but the recipes look great:
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/cauliflower-recipes/
Carrots- We finally finished picking out of our first carrot planting yesterday, which was right up by the farm stand. The carrots continued to get bigger and bigger as weeks went on, so when we cleared the last of them we got some beauties to put in the fridge and pack into your shares tomorrow.
Lettuce- We'll pick a mix of different lettuces to go into shares tomorrow, so it will be a bit of a grab bag with green romaines, mini red romaines, red leafs, and green butters all a possibility in your share...
Cucumber- Lots of cucumbers coming on, and they are at their best right now. The cukes should hopefully continue through the rest of the Summer, but right now in mid July is really their time.
http://www.marthastewart.com/274508/cucumber-recipes
Walla walla onion- These sweet yellow onions keep getting bigger and juicier out in the field....soon they will complete their growth cycle and we will stop watering them so they can begin to dry down and be brought into the barn for storage. These sweet onions don't store nearly as long as storage varieties, but they can still be doing great in storage into the early Fall.
Parsley- A nice fresh bunch of Italian parsley, which is a great herb for livening up the flavor of so many vegetables. It can be chopped in a salad or in blended in a dressing, or sprinkled over almost any vegetable dish.
And in the large shares:
Zucchini- The summer squash plants keep on producing. The plants themselves are starting to reach pretty epic size, probably over three feet tall and four feet wide, and they are still pumping out lots more fruit and flowers.
Broccoli- So much nice broccoli right now! It came on very suddenly, and sooner than I expected, which tends to be what happens with the broccoli this time of year. We'll try to get broccoli in all shares next week.
Pea vines- Just a little bit of pea vines, a nice green treat. They are good raw, or very lightly sauteed or stir fried. Something new to try!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/pea-shoots_n_1451984.html
And larger amounts of beans, onion, and carrots.
Tomatoes, eggplants and melons are all just a few weeks out! Sweet corn and peppers not too far behind! And boy, I hope we get some more strawberries again soon, the drought continues. As soon as we get a decent amount they'll be back in the share.
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