t’s blueberry time on the farm. We’re spending a little time each day picking these tasty beauties.
A beautiful bean trellis made by CSA worker member Seth McLamb! Thanks Seth. Lettuce and sunflowers are uphill from the beans.
We had a major/minor disaster on Monday with our computer dying, both hard-drive and mother board gave it up, leaving us computer less for a few days. Now we are back in business and now fully updated!
Wow what a week! More weeding, rescuing carrots from being over-taken by nasty weeds, the dahlias & a bed of mixed flowers were cleaned up as well. And we planted like crazy as well. More lettuce mix & lettuce, the second bed of melons, and two more beds of flowers all went in this week. We took the tops off of most of the onions that have been curing in the loft of the barn and crated up the onions. We’re getting ready for a pretty big harvest of garlic, which could happen in the coming week or the week after, very soon. The spring planted onions are also getting fairly close and there are 6 beds of those! That is going to be a huge harvest!!!
The intense heat over the past week has been a challenge for some of the plants. We’re been irrigating every day, trying to keep everything alive, but some of the plants just do not like it in the mid 90s. The broccoli is one that is sensitive to the heat and there’s still a few hundred plants that haven’t started to head up quite yet. We’ll just have to keep an eye on things and be ready to harvest what we can. On the other hand the melons seem to love the heat and are growing like mad. It’s a long way to a great melon, however. We always just cross our fingers with melons.
The Farm Party is scheduled for JULY 12th! Mark your calendars and we hope that many of you will be able to attend. It’s a potluck get together and a chance to see where all these vegetables are coming from!
******Worker members, we are ready to put you to work! Please take a moment to look at your calendars to see when you might be able to fulfill your work commitment.******
The boxes we use for the CSA shares are waxed and are not recyclable, but we do reuse them. So PLEASE remember to BRING THEM BACK next week.
Ideas for Cooking
ON PEPPER – Try to use fresh ground black pepper. It’s easy to do. I carefully clean our coffee grinder, grind pepper and then carefully clean the grinder again. Do small amounts. The taste is far better with fresh ground.
Pepper is the most widely used spice. It first was found growing on vines in India. The Romans went out of their way to get it, establishing trade routes to the East. In the early nineteenth century, some people regarded pepper as a cause of insanity. Pepper was shunned by food purists who felt the spice was risky to use and, even after the Civil War, it was to be avoided by children.
This week’s recipes: