What’s in the box?

green onions
salad mix
radishes
kale
romaine lettuce
arugula
spinach (medium and large)
beets (most medium and large)
cucumber (small and a few medium that didn’t get beets)

Notes on the box.

It’s a good week for salads again!
The Radishes are spicy because of the hot weather, but they make a great radish salsa or go nicely on some bread and butter or in a sandwich.
The lettuce is still yummy, but we are watching for bitterness that can sometimes happen when it warms up.
Beets will store best with roots removed from tops. The tops are edible as well as the roots. These young beets have tender skin that doesn’t need to be peeled.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Aquilla is an aged Jack style cheese. I sometimes call it our potato chip cheese because once I start snacking on it, I don’t want to stop! I like to dice it up in a salad or make a cheese sandwich or just snack on it. We have been eating snacks for dinner every night this week. Just cheese and crackers and radishes and quick sandwiches with lots of lettuce.
The feta will go great with the beets or spinach or arugula in a salad. It’s good on a pizza, too!

Recipes.

Sauteed Beets and Greens
Wash beets and dice roots or cut into thin slices. Add the red stem section of the beets and the diced beets in a pan with a tablespoon of your preferred cooking fat or oil. Sautee for a few minutes and then cover the pan. You can add some minced garlic or onion. Chop the Beet Greens corsely while roots are cooking. When roots are fork tender, add the greens and sautee until wilted. Salt to taste. Simple and good. Really lets the flavor of the beets shine.

Arugula Gimlet Recipe - maybe I’m too hot and my brain is melting, but this sounds like a good weekend treat to me

Grilled Steak Salad with Beets, Arugula, and Green Onions

On the Farm.

We are seeing a lot of the typically shoulder season crops that we plant lots of for the early boxes start to bolt in protest of the heat and dryness! But at the same time we are watching summer crops grow super quickly right before our eyes. It’s a Spring like no other as far as this weather goes. The good thing about planting many types of diverse crops is that generally we will have a nice bunch of crops that favor whatever type of weather we get. So we are seeing summer squash coming on early. Tomatoes are very happily growing as is the corn. But consensus among all crops is that some rain would be excellent!
We have been busily moving irrigation around in efforts to save tender newly transplanted babies. The extra efforts there had us running out of time to get to our friends farm to harvest the rhubarb! But if it’s still good and can stand a harvest despite the heat, we will be harvesting it for the next box.
We are doing our best out here in the high temps. We hope you all are finding ways to keep cool and stay safe!