Pricey Farm Mates,
Our first week was recent and scrumptious however this week is even higher! What’s in your bag this week? Garlic, garlic scapes, squash, (both zucchini, spherical zucchini, or yellow squash), sugar snap peas, Hakurei turnips, and inexperienced butter head lettuce. The scapes are the tops of the garlic that if allowed would grow to be a flower. After we take away them from the still-growing garlic crops the garlic bulbs get bigger. It’s a win-win harvesting them. They’re so scrumptious and eradicating them helps our garlic get huge! Garlic scapes are a fleeting favourite of many. They’re extraordinarily versatile. They are often grilled or roasted and eaten as a vegetable, minced and added to salads & eggs (like inexperienced onion) and are fabulous chopped up and added to any stir fry. You can even add them into pesto or into hummus. Hakurei turnips could be shaved or sliced, dressed with oil and vinegar then eaten uncooked, steamed, or cooked any which manner. We love to easily cube all these new veggies and throw them in collectively in a stir fry with salad on the aspect. The turnip greens are simply revived in chilly water after which could be steamed, or rubbed with oil and salt, then air fried or baked into chips.
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Fruit: We expect to start out getting fruit in July with one in every of many cherry varieties!
Honey: These of you who ordered month-to-month and bimonthly might be getting it this week.
Zelle funds: We nonetheless have a couple of Zelle funds that we haven’t been in a position to place with an account. One was made in Might for $215.00 and the opposite was made final week for $200.00. Please, if this could possibly be you, name the workplace! It’s essential to tell us if the fee is coming from a reputation that’s not hooked up to your account so we will add that title to your account.
Please ensure any emails from jacquie@monroefarm.com will not be going to your spam folder. Now we have one new member who we solely have an e mail handle for. We’d like your different contact info. If that is you, name the workplace or e mail us again!
What’s in your bag and methods to use all of it: Bear in mind, your bag could appear small now, however it is going to continue to grow and rising. Quickly there might be extras on the aspect to seize resembling tomatoes and melons. Cucumbers are going to be approaching in full drive very shortly. It seems like we’re going to have an superior carrot yr. Sure crops could possibly be delayed on account of all of the moisture we’ve been getting paired with how unusually cool it has been. This week would be the first time we’ve gotten into the 90’s. This lack of warmth is uncommon for us being in the course of June already. We’d like excessive temps for heat loving crops like peppers, melons, and tomatoes. Please keep in mind that Linda within the workplace received’t be capable to see into the longer term and inform you precisely what you’re going to be getting subsequent week or the subsequent. For those who’re at a loss with what to do with sure greens, ask your distribution heart and keep in mind there are literally thousands of recipes on-line. Google could be useful when in search of a recipe. Take into account ordering our CSA cookbook that has tons of neighborhood sourced recipes for every veggie you might encounter.
Veggie Wash
Juice from a complete lemon
2 Tablespoons Vinegar
1 cup water
1 spray bottle & scrub brush
Combine and spray onto floor of veggies. Let sit for a minute or two. (Longer if attempting to take away wax from retailer purchased veg) Scrub calmly on comfortable skinned veggies and extra aggressively on exhausting skinned produce like winter squash, cucumbers, root veggies and melons. Leafy greens merely must be sprayed, let sit 5 min. then rinsed.
Why couldn’t the turnip go to the celebration? It was grounded.
With gratitude,
Kyle, Sam, Jacquie, Jerry, Linda, & The Crew
