Hi CSA members!!
I want to begin by remembering the life of Marian Hunter, CSA member who lived close to us by Underwood. I met her several years ago when I delivered chickens to her. I sensed her goodness the minute I saw her. Though hunched over with age and many years of being a registered nurse, her inner beauty spilled out everywhere. She loved to come to the farm and we always exchanged hugs. The weekend before she died, she called wondering if she could get basil with our angel program. I told her I would love to be her angel. She is no doubt making a heavenly pesto right now. Her life shows exactly what matters...caring, serving and reaching out with goodness. Blessed be the memory of Marian.
Here we are at box number TWELVE!! Tis the season when many are going back to school and the routine of fall. Remember a recent letter talking about August evaporating?? Enjoy the peaceful sound of crickets while you can!!
The CSA is seasonal eating...just like the pioneers did, not shipped in variety from thousands of miles across the planet.
"Mom, are we having sweet corn again?"
"Yes, shut up and eat!!:-)"
Should you be getting tired of sweet corn, just remember that in a month it might freeze, the seasonal eating of sweet corn will be over, and then you will be craving it. To save the splendor of sweet corn in summer, we do something really hard and complicated. We pick the corn and put it in a big plastic bag in the freezer, husk and all. Then, on January 5th, with a raging blizzard, we take whatever number we want out of the freezer in the morning to thaw out. In the evening, we husk it, boil it like always and are transported back to the summer days of August by enjoying corn on the cob.
If you fix too many ears for one meal, try cutting the corn off and later frying it in your favorite oil...or even butter! Simply heaven, a whole new flavor.
New potatoes are, of course in the box. I have enjoyed the flavor of new potatoes, grown the magic of minerals that we do with biological farming, more than any season. How can the simple potato taste so good? We will have a massive harvest event of potatoes this fall along with all the other harvest events so you can savor them all winter long.
Of course there are the other staples, cucumber, tomatoes, green beans, zucchini and more.
But the highlight of this box has to be the melons. If you have a striped green melon, it is our yellow watermelon, one of my favorites! Enjoy the crisp sweetness of Yellow Doll. Or you might get the melon with light green on the shell and that is a red melon. Many will get a cantaloupe. The one with the fine webbing and creamy white flesh is Gourmet. It is our favorite and will be a main one next year. We are trying many kinds of cantaloupe to fine the best ones for coming years. Orange Sherbet will be ready in the coming weeks and has always been my favorite. Should you get a melon that isn't good, let us know when you come to the farm and we will get you another. Raising produce is a very humbling experience. I might be better at raising cane?!
If you don't have a melon in your box, we put in an extra large zucchini!
...Just teasing!
Exciting harvest events to come:
The first patches of sweet corn were intentionally small. We thought it would be better to wait with the harvest events for the bigger corn. We didn't expect to do harvest events on them at all. But what a cool surprise, hundreds of families have already gotten their sweet corn. But the two massive patches we did plan for harvest events should begin to be ready in about a week. At this point, they are looking awesome and were getting irrigated again last night. Looks like grand fun.
Potatoes, beets, squash, pumpkins and all the fall ones will be later September and into October. We will be watching the weather and ripeness of the squash to time it right.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are my biggest stress for harvest events. Unlike corn, beans and peas where everyone can all come the same day, they are the ones that keep producing gradually over the season. Remember last year when tomatoes started out slow, and then we had an early frost? The best picking came after that and was still going on by mid October. A lot of tomatoes are on so it should be great season. Hang in there.
So you can plan ahead, we are setting the beginning of the pumpkin pick for Saturday, September 22. It will continue on every day after that. We mixed all the seed together so white ones are mixed with orange ones. It will be like a treasure hunt.
Squash is looking amazing and will start showing up in the box as soon as the melon season is done. It should be a great fall event and even be part of the grand finale free pick.
I want to begin by remembering the life of Marian Hunter, CSA member who lived close to us by Underwood. I met her several years ago when I delivered chickens to her. I sensed her goodness the minute I saw her. Though hunched over with age and many years of being a registered nurse, her inner beauty spilled out everywhere. She loved to come to the farm and we always exchanged hugs. The weekend before she died, she called wondering if she could get basil with our angel program. I told her I would love to be her angel. She is no doubt making a heavenly pesto right now. Her life shows exactly what matters...caring, serving and reaching out with goodness. Blessed be the memory of Marian.
Here we are at box number TWELVE!! Tis the season when many are going back to school and the routine of fall. Remember a recent letter talking about August evaporating?? Enjoy the peaceful sound of crickets while you can!!
The CSA is seasonal eating...just like the pioneers did, not shipped in variety from thousands of miles across the planet.
"Mom, are we having sweet corn again?"
"Yes, shut up and eat!!:-)"
Should you be getting tired of sweet corn, just remember that in a month it might freeze, the seasonal eating of sweet corn will be over, and then you will be craving it. To save the splendor of sweet corn in summer, we do something really hard and complicated. We pick the corn and put it in a big plastic bag in the freezer, husk and all. Then, on January 5th, with a raging blizzard, we take whatever number we want out of the freezer in the morning to thaw out. In the evening, we husk it, boil it like always and are transported back to the summer days of August by enjoying corn on the cob.
If you fix too many ears for one meal, try cutting the corn off and later frying it in your favorite oil...or even butter! Simply heaven, a whole new flavor.
New potatoes are, of course in the box. I have enjoyed the flavor of new potatoes, grown the magic of minerals that we do with biological farming, more than any season. How can the simple potato taste so good? We will have a massive harvest event of potatoes this fall along with all the other harvest events so you can savor them all winter long.
Of course there are the other staples, cucumber, tomatoes, green beans, zucchini and more.
But the highlight of this box has to be the melons. If you have a striped green melon, it is our yellow watermelon, one of my favorites! Enjoy the crisp sweetness of Yellow Doll. Or you might get the melon with light green on the shell and that is a red melon. Many will get a cantaloupe. The one with the fine webbing and creamy white flesh is Gourmet. It is our favorite and will be a main one next year. We are trying many kinds of cantaloupe to fine the best ones for coming years. Orange Sherbet will be ready in the coming weeks and has always been my favorite. Should you get a melon that isn't good, let us know when you come to the farm and we will get you another. Raising produce is a very humbling experience. I might be better at raising cane?!
If you don't have a melon in your box, we put in an extra large zucchini!
...Just teasing!
Exciting harvest events to come:
The first patches of sweet corn were intentionally small. We thought it would be better to wait with the harvest events for the bigger corn. We didn't expect to do harvest events on them at all. But what a cool surprise, hundreds of families have already gotten their sweet corn. But the two massive patches we did plan for harvest events should begin to be ready in about a week. At this point, they are looking awesome and were getting irrigated again last night. Looks like grand fun.
Potatoes, beets, squash, pumpkins and all the fall ones will be later September and into October. We will be watching the weather and ripeness of the squash to time it right.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are my biggest stress for harvest events. Unlike corn, beans and peas where everyone can all come the same day, they are the ones that keep producing gradually over the season. Remember last year when tomatoes started out slow, and then we had an early frost? The best picking came after that and was still going on by mid October. A lot of tomatoes are on so it should be great season. Hang in there.
So you can plan ahead, we are setting the beginning of the pumpkin pick for Saturday, September 22. It will continue on every day after that. We mixed all the seed together so white ones are mixed with orange ones. It will be like a treasure hunt.
Squash is looking amazing and will start showing up in the box as soon as the melon season is done. It should be a great fall event and even be part of the grand finale free pick.
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