- Spring onions
- beets: shocking beet hummus
- fennel: roasted eggplant, tomato and fennel salad
- garlic bulb
- Head lettuce
- Beans, dragon tongue or green: stir fried beans
- summer squash or zucchini
- broccoli
- cauliflower: marinated vegetable salad
- Celery: juicing celery
- eggplant
- tomatoes: fresh tomato salsa
- jalapeno
- Sweet corn
- cabbage: grilled cabbage wedges with lime dressing
Herb shares: cilantro, thyme, basil, parsley, dill
This week’s CSA box comes with the favors of summer starting to roll in….tomatoes, jalapeño pepper, eggplant, garlic, and a taste of sweet corn. Our early corn didn’t do great this year, but we will all get to enjoy a few early ears of this tender sweet corn this week and next. Our other successions of corn are doing much better, are larger, and are fully enjoying the summer heat.
Processing the harvest has begun. Our first batch of sauerkraut has been made and we have a 20 gallon crock full of shredded cabbage starting its fermentation process. I’m so delighted to get to use the crocks which were used by Jason’s family to make sauerkraut for a couple generations.
Tomato processing will also commence this week as we have tomatoes starting to roll in. As you can see, there is a beautiful array of colors and sizes of tomatoes in this week’s share. Tomatoes are one of the best fresh items of summer so enjoy them in mass while they last. Our job is to cook, dry, and preserve these babies so we can eat them all year long as we’ve become spoiled by eating our own tomatoes all year long.
Eat well. Smile often.
Your Farmer,
Heather