What’s in the box?

Spinach (bagged)
Arugula (bagged)
Romaine (red or green)
Herb Pot
Pac Choi
Salad Mix
Radishes or Salad Turnips (medium and large shares)
Cilantro (medium and large shares)
Oak Leaf Lettuce (medium and large shares)

Notes on the box.

Herb pots contain a combination of parsley or sage, basil, and oregano. You can pot the herbs out into larger containers or into your garden. Or you can keep them in a sunny window and water them regularly and pinch what you’d like for fresh herbs as needed. Fresh herbs are a great addition to salad dressings and minced and added to finished food for a nice bright flavor.

Lettuces and greens will keep best in a plastic bag in your crisper in the fridge.

Radishes and Turnips will keep best if you remove the root from the green tops. The Turnip Greens are excellent for eating. Radish tops are also edible, but we like them best added to other greens. If you make an arugula pesto, adding radish tops is a great idea!

The Spinach is young and tender. Great fresh or mixed into hot pasta where it will cook from the residual heat.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Cheese shares are packed in a separate box from veggies. It will be at the drop site with a label that says CHEESE. The box has a liner and freezer pack to keep the cheese cool. Please take only your share (one bag of cheese) and not the entire box! There’s a list inside the box with the names of people who have ordered cheese shares. If your name isn’t on the list, please don’t take a share. Please close the box after getting your cheese. If you should have gotten cheese and there’s none there or your name is not on the list by mistake, please let us know and we will make it up to you.

Today we sent our First Snow, which is a soft ripened cheese and fresh cheese curds! If you got a First Snow with a black label, it is ripe and ready to eat NOW! I usually like to send them a little firmer than they are, but my timing wasn’t quite spot on for the first delivery…. anyway, they are very tasty now! But, I wouldn’t wait long to eat it or it may become over ripe. The First Snow with blue labels can keep in your fridge and will continue to ripen, or you can enjoy them now but they will be firmer. First Snow is a tricky cheese for me, but when I get it right it’s so good! So I keep practicing and hoping to get a more consistent cheese.
The curds are great for snacking on.

Recipes.

Salad Dressings!

Cilantro Radish Salsa

Garlic Bok Choy with Chili Paste

Simple Arugula Salad

Arugula Pesto

Braised Salad Turnips

On the farm.

Happy first delivery day! We hope you are excited about having salads with every meal this week! A reminder that when you pickup, you should take the box with your name on the label. If you don’t have a box with your name on the label and you didn’t schedule a hold, please contact us and we will make it right! We make mistakes sometimes, but we will always correct them. Sometimes there’s a mixup at the dropsite, we do our best to correct those as well! If anything comes up (like your share is missing an add-on that you ordered) please let us know! Today is a warm day, so pick-up as soon as you can for best the best quality of your veggies.

This Spring has seen some pretty drastic temperature swings, but most everything is looking good in the fields. We are irrigating frequently and taking off and putting on row cover to keep tender plant babies warm or cool as needed. It seems like we haven’t had much between very very hot or very cool weather. We went swimming one day and a few days later had a fire going in the woodstove again! The hoophouses really came through for the first delivery. We are in the super busy portion of the season where we are still seeding, transplanting, weeding, and now harvesting and packing. The cows are at the peak of their lactation, so lots of cheese is being made. The days are so long that we can practically look out at the fields and see the plants grow (as long as it’s warm enough!). We are grateful to all of you for signing up and supporting our farm and local and sustainable foods!

We have the first farm event of the season on the calendar! It’s the EAT LOCAL FARM TOUR on July 10 from 10-4. More info will be coming soon, but we wanted to let you know right away so you can mark it down.