August 6, 2017 ~ CSA
Week 13
~~This week will be your second week for having non-refrigerated
items in your CSA. We will have these set out separate from your box
at CSA pickup with a clearly marked sign. “Take One Bag of
Tomatoes and One bag of Potatoes”. Don’t
forget your Potatoes and Tomatoes! ~~~
This week I thought you all might
like to come along on a crop walk through the farm. Everything is
going really well in the hoop house. Cucumbers are at their peak and
the tomatoes are starting to come along. The peppers are getting
going and the first eggplant has decided to join the party in the
hoop house.
This week the hoop house will get it’s weekly weeding and
trellising and it’s chugging along; pumping out veggies like a
champ.
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| Gettin' Ready for a Second Hoop House! |
We’ve cleared out the early beds of heading kohl crops, flail mowed, amended, and harrowed the beds to make way for a second hoop house. The next planting of heading kohl crops is coming along beautifully and if everything goes as planned (ha!) we will have a beautiful array of broccoli, romanesco, purple cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts in the shares for late summer and early fall.
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| Late Summer Kohl Crops Lookin' Good! |
Not only is the heat helping pump out some gorgeous zucchini, which we are harvesting daily to get them while they are small (ha!), but Squash Land is looking hopeful for a bountiful harvest of winter squash this fall.
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| Squash Land! Home of Future Fall Food! |
Allium Land (onion family) will get the shallots harvested and starting to cure this week. The garlic we hung weeks ago seems cured and will get packed safely away for fall CSA and fall planting. The shallots and the full sized onions are both looking incredible. Who could bring Monster Shallots to the Monster Truck Show, Lower Valley Farm, that’s who. !BOOM! Crazy! Amazing! Monster Shallots! Also, it can be hard to get enough to eat when your pulling SUMMER hours at the peak of the farming season, maybe that’s why when I walk by the rows of storage onions...all I see is a million pounds of onion rings...because the full size onions are looking...AMAZING...!ONION RINGS!
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| Allium Land- Monster Shallots and Lifetime Supply of Onion Rings |
We are clearing out beds of baby
greens and root crops every week and….planting more baby greens and
root crops for fall. We do all our bed prep with our awesome
BCS two wheel tractor. We love our BCS tractor.
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| BCS tractor, clearing out roots for greens. clearing out greens for roots. |
Want to learn more about how we grow minimally tilled, nutrient dense
organic veggies. Farm Tour is right around the corner and we would
love for you to be there!
Wednesday August 16, 6-7:30 pm
Recipe ideas this week:
Cauliflower
Casserole
Recipe
by the ever favorite thekitch.com
http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-cauliflower-italian-sau-137481
Summer Egg Bake
with Basil Pesto, diced zucchini and bell peppers
In
skillet saute a pound of ground pork, when mostly cooked add, diced
green onions, zucchini, and bell peppers, while that sautes whisk up
a dozen eggs, put eggs in a casserole dish.
Chop
and add basil to skillet, cook about a minute more. Pour skillet
stuff into casserole, top with Parmesan and bake until cooked through
about 40 min at 350.
Blinged out
Frozen Pizza with Zucchini, Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, and Basil
Hey
guys, summer gets busy. Let me tell you where guilt doesn’t
belong. Guilt doesn’t belong with the blessing of nourishment that
is food. Too busy to cook? Have a CSA share and want to use up
some veggies?
Why not lightly saute some green onions, bell peppers, thinly sliced
zucchini and put them on top of a frozen pizza. When blinging out a
frozen pizza this way you’ll need to add some oil to your basil and
cover it with more cheese so the
basil doesn’t get burnt.
Summer Salad with
sliced cucumbers and diced tomatoes
Simple
but true. Salad is awesome and even better with thinly sliced cucs
and tomatoes.
Pan Fried
Potatoes with Carrots and Zucchini
Last
week I pan fried some potatoes and onions with diced carrots and
zucchini and threw in some curry powder in the last minute or so. If
I would have had canned coconut milk I would have added that too.
Alas, I didn’t and it was still fabulous. Because pretty much
anything with pan fried fresh potatoes is...fabulous.
CSA week
13
Partial
Cauliflower - small
head
Carrots - partial
bundle
Green Bell Pepper -1
each
Green
Onions - partial bundle
Zucchini/Patty
Pan - 1-2 each
Cucumber - 1
large
Basil - Partial
bundle
Lettuce
Mix - Partial bag
Lacinato
Kale - Partial bundle
Tomatoes ~1/2
#
Potatoes - Partial
bag
Full
Cauliflower - med-large head
Carrots - bundle
Green Bell Pepper - 2 each
Green Onions - bundle
Zucchini/Patty Pan - 2-3 each
Cucumber - 2 medium
Basil - bundle
Lettuce Mix - bag
Lacinato Kale - bundle
Tomatoes ~1#
Potatoes - Full bag
Have
a great week!
And
DON’T FORGET YOUR TOMATOES AND POTATOES.
