CSA Week Seven

News from the field:

What goes around comes around. One of the things that is interesting about growing 30-40 different vegetables for market is that every year some things do well, and every year there is a crop that seems cursed.

This year, we are having a great tomato year, but the salad greens are star-crossed. The two weeks of rain we had a couple of weeks ago means that we lost most of a lettuce planting to rot. So while we like to keep some type of salad greens in the basket, we don't have any this week.

But we are making up for it by more tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. If it seems like a lot of tomatoes now, just think about those store bought tomatoes we will all be eating in December. Yum!

In the Basket:

Sun golds!! – At least one CSAer has said she joined to make sure she got her sun golds this year. A lot of folks say they never even make it home with the sun golds, they eat them all in the car. Do they live up to the hype? Yes!!!

Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes!!!

Eggplant - We’ve tried a bunch of different eggplant varieties this year and so far have gotten a lot of positive feedback on them. Tiny purple and white fairy tale eggplant (great grilled whole), long thin Asian eggplants (no bitterness), familiar big ones, even white and light bulbous Rosa Bianca. Everyone is getting different kinds this week, let us know what you think of the kinds you got. Lots of recipe ideas on the back.

Cucumbers - Another four cukes. Cucumber salad?

Yellow and green zucchini - The yellow ones are technically zucchini, though many people treat them like summer squash. Use them in the eggplant Parmesan or the grilled stacked eggplant recipes on the back.

Green beans - First of the season. Long, thin and crunchy. We like them raw. Our Providence cousins like to grill them after tossing with olive oil, salt and pepper. Which is messy, and hard to not have thenm fall through the cracks, but so worth it!!