CSA Week Eleven

News from the field:

One last push! We are getting to the point in the season where we are harvesting and marketing more than anything else. But to keep things going deep into the fall, we need to continue with our weekly plantings and weeding, plus some getting ready for next year. So the next few weeks represent our last big push for the season. After mid-September or so, the pace slows considerably because we don’t have weekly plantings to worry about, and because if we haven’t gotten to certain weeds by mid-September, we just probably aren’t going to get to them.

But until then we need to keep chugging along. We want to crank out as much yummy stuff as we can because come December, we will be longing for those summer tastes.

In the Basket:

Melon – It is a short but very sweet season!

Mesculn and arugula – We have been light on the greens the last few weeks, but they are back. Enjoy those A vitamins!

Sun golds and brandywine tomato – Brandywines are an heirloom tomato that is grown for flavor – not looks. Sungolds are sungolds, which means they are yummy.

Broccoli - Some green crunchy crunch. Pizza recipe on back!!

Sweet white fresh onion – Another Alisa Craig this week. Sweet, juicy and almost too beautiful to eat!

Summer squash and cucumbers – Nothing says summer like some nice cucurbits.