We’ll have choices from the following veggies this week:
Letttuce, chard, kale, beet bunches, broccolini, kohlrabi, radish, turnip, scallions, peas, dill, cilantro, parsley, garlic scapes
On the farm this week:
Bok choi season is now over and beet season is here. I know people will be very happy about peas this week. Unfortunately it just so happens that whatever crops makes our customers happy makes me unhappy and my unhappiness is inversely proportional our customers happiness. Picking peas pretty much becomes a full time job for everyone on the farm while they’re in season and during that time the farm falls apart! Here’s everyone in the peas.
Also new this week are the garlic scapes. I hadn’t bothered checking them until someone told me they had picked theirs and found ours were overdue to pick! They are great sauteed or in any dish as substitute for garlic and make a great pesto! The garlic that comes is just grown for orders for the fall and is not part of the CSA; however we add the scapes to the CSA pick ups. Here’s an experiment I did last year with permanent clover pathways between the garlic beds.
We started our planting of fall crops this week with cauilfower. There’s so much straw on the field from the fall rye that it’s hard to see the rows, so I made a roller out of discs that mark the lines. But I didn’t finish making it; so there’s no handle and Shola had to crawl for half a kilometer. But it beats picking peas he said!
That’s it for this week:
Jonathan, Sarah, Sandra, Morgan, Alyssa, Shola, Barb and Hannah