Week 7; July 15, 2021

What’s in the box?

celery
rainbow chard
summer squash/ zucchini
onions
oregano
greentop beets
garlic
cabbage or broccoli (medium and large shares)
cucumbers (medium and large shares)
cauliflower (large shares)
cherry tomatoes (large shares)

Notes on the box

Cabbage will be either red or savoy.

Celery likes cool wet weather and with the drought, we have gotten less size on the stalks thanwe normally get. It’s still tasty and is good cut up and added to tuna, pasta, or egg salad or in stirfry. Leaves are edible, too. Best minced up and added to anything you like a nice celery flavor with.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Deneb is a natural rind gouda style cheese. This Deneb is aged about a year. We also have our cows milk feta. Nice on a pizza with the fresh oregano or in a roasted beet salad.

Whipped Feta and Fresh Herbs

Recipes.

Grilled Beets! These are grilled in a foil packet. They take quite a while to cook through. But I’m thinking of trying them on a campfire, too.

Roasted Beet Salad with Beet Greens and Feta

Fresh Oregano and Garlic Pesto

Zucchini Fritters

On the Farm.

We had a really wonderful time at the Eat Local Coop Farm Tour! We had over 300 visitors on Saturday and were really happy to be able to meet or see some of our CSA members! We hope you had a great time if you came out to the farm!

We are now seeing some of the effects of the heatwave and drought showing up in what’s not in the box when we were planning it. Broccoli and cauliflower looking kinda rough out there. They aren’t big fans of heat. We hope the plants out there start putting on some nicer heads so we can get these crops in more boxes. Potatoes haven’t sized up yet, but hopefully soon. We’ve gotten a bit of rain, we keep on moving irrigation, and the temps have become more seasonal. We are doing our best and looking forward to the sweetcorn and summer crops that will be coming in.

Check out the store this week! We’ve added fresh shiitake mushrooms from our neighbors at Northwoods Mushrooms that can be added to your CSA box. Like the coffee, mushrooms can be added on a week to week basis as you like. Because of order deadlines, mushrooms must be ordered by Saturday for delivery on Thursday. Let us know if you have any questions or need any help.

bee collecting sweetcorn pollen

tiny baby watermelon

Beautiful Chicory flowers.

strawberries for next season! plants put on a few berries.

Magdalen with the surprise berries making cheese packing a little sweeter

Phil and Anabel on garlic duty

Sadie “helping” with moving boxes

Phil!

Magdalen vs. the weeds!

one day when we were supposed to get nearly 2 inches of rain and this was the weather radar over the farm (we are in that white no rain oval!) We ended up getting barely a half inch. But better than nothing!

Otto made a cheese dragon!

cheese dragon by Otto

Otto has helped me with wrapping cheese this week. He’s getting really good!

Cheesemakers apprentice. Otto is 10 now and saving money for a computer to play Minecraft on, so you might see more pictures of him working on the farm :D

Sand hill crane family in a neighboring field

irrigation still going!

Next Week.

cauliflower?
broccoli?
beets
onions
sqush
cucumbers
potatoes?