What’s in the box?

celery
dill
cucumbers!
sweet onions
green top beets
red or savoy cabbage (medium and large shares)
carrots
basil
zucchini/ summer squash

Notes on the box.

Cucumbers coming in heavy now. We had just had the hoop house cukes, but the field cukes are ready now. Time for refrigerator pickles and cucumber based salads.
The greens of the beets are edible and can be prepared as you would cooked spinach or chard. The greens are also great sauteed and added to beets that have been roasted or sauteed until tender.
Remove the tops from the carrots right away to keep them crisp.
Basil can be stored with stems in a cup of water on your counter. It doesn’t like to be in the fridge.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Share.

Herdsman cheese and garlic dill quark. Both are excellent on veggie sandwiches or on pasta. A quick dinner idea is to cook some pasta and while that is cooking, saute some zucchini and onion. Drain pasta and mix in quark cheese, the sauteed veggies, and some freshly chopped basil. So quick and easy! Bread with quark and sliced cucumbers make a great snack, or add a fried egg for a really yummy breakfast.

Recipes.

Cold Cucumber Soup

Saltibarsciai: Lithuanian cold beet soup with kefir

Zucchini, Rice, and Cheese Gratin

On the Farm.

Last Saturday would have been the Eat Local Farm Tour. We looked at the calendar and felt dissappointed that the tour couldn’t happen this year. The farm is looking really great with weeds mostly under control and things growing so beautifully. We would have loved to have people out to see it. If you will be in the area and want to stop by the farm, give us a heads up and we might be free to give a socially distanced farm tour.
A few days ago Sadie, 6, came up and announced that the corn will be ready soon. She went out to the field and picked some ears and saw tiny kernels. She’s right! We think we are a couple/few weeks out. Last week of July or first week of August. Sadie also found the first red slicer tomato in the greenhouse. Just a couple more weeks and we will be looking at some very Summery boxes! We are happy that Sadie is developing good observation skills. It’s nice to have more eyes observing things on the farm.
Have you all been able to see the NEOWISE comet? We are lucky on the farm to have very clear, dark skies at night so we are able to see it very clearly. A friend asked if there would be a NEOWISE cheese coming form Cosmic Wheel Creamery and I think that might be a good idea!