- Rutabaga (turnip looking root): Creamy, Smoky Whipped Rutabagas
- Rainbow Carrots
- Watermelon Radish: peel skins if they are too hot. Pretty red and not too spicy inside.
- Beets: Beets and Walnuts
- Moutain Rose, Yukon Gold Potatoes & Fingerling Mix
- Onions, Yellow Candy
- Cabbage, Savoy: Roasted Cabbage Steaks
- Peppers
- Kale: Sausage, Potato, Kale Soup
- Leeks (use like mild onion): Leek and Goat Cheese Frittata
- Garlic
- Winter Squash, Carnival Acorn: Baked Carnival Squash with Bacon and Rosemary
- Spinach 1/2#
- Thyme
- Eggs
The exciting news of the week is the arrival of our new garlic seed for planting this fall for next year. We changed our varieties from a white german hardneck, to a sampling of three softneck varieties: Red Toch, Red Italian, and Inchelium Red. It was a pleasure to source the seed from another small farm with great customer service: South Road Garlic Farm. The bulbs have smaller cloves, but more of them. The flavors are supposedly different and it will be fun to taste test the differences.
Other farm news is that our 6 not so little piggies went to market this week. They reached a nice weight varying from 260-290# each and we were happy to have them a part of our garden rotation this year. The garden actually seems a bit quiet as they “talked” to us while we were out there and gave us several laughs a day watching them run up and down their paddock. They ate extra produce and the wrappers of vegetables that we prep for our CSA boxes.
I like incorporating the pigs’ natural tilling behavior into the back end of the garden where we rotate less intensive crops such as winter squash, garlic, potatoes, and sweet corn. Not only is the fertilizer placed directly where we need it, but we follow the pigs with sweet corn and broccoli the next year as they are heavy feeders, meaning those particular crops appreciate the higher level of nitrogen incorporated from the pig manure.
If anyone is interested in a half hog, we do have a half left. Please message or call Heather ASAP to reserve some pork for your freezer. We process the animals at Ledeburs in Winona, MN and they do a fine job.
Eat Well. Smile Often.
Your Farmer,
Heather