What’s in the box?

Notes on the box.

garlic scapes

kale

carrots

broccolini

french breakfast radishes

butterhead lettuce

green onions

dill

Garlic Scapes are here! If these are new to you, they are a treat of this time of year. They are the stem and flower bud from a head of garlic. We remove them to encourage the plant to put more energy into making a nice big bulb instead of a pretty flower. The other benefit is that we get to eat them! They can be used in the same way as a green onion, but they will add a garlicy flavor instead of an onion flavor. They are great in salad dressing or you can dice them and cook with them by sauteing or adding to stirfry. They are great on the grill whole to serve with a steak or grilled chicken. They can be pickled or made into pesto. So much possibility!

Fresh greentop carrots! Hooray! Be sure to remove the tops from the carrots right away before you put them in the fridge! Otherwise they will go bendy pretty quickly. The tops are edible and can be used as you might use fresh parsley. Have a taste and see if you like the flavor to determine if you want to save them for eating. The carrots themselves should be stored in a plastic bag or container in the fridge.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

This week I packed some feta cheese and some of our Antares which is our cows milk manchego. They are both super flavorful and great for salads, pizza, or pasta dishes. If you don’t think you will eat the feta within 2 weeks, you can make a brine to store it in longer. Just mix a couple of tsp of salt into a cup of water and put the cheese into the brine so it’s covered in an airtight container.

With this hot weather, a feta dip for carrots, radishes, and pita chips is a great dinner.
Antares is excellent grated on pasta or cut into cubes and added to a salad. If you want to make a garlic scape pesto, the Antares would be a great cheese to add to that!

All of our aged cheeses are nice to cut off a bit of and snack on with some wine or a bubble water or another favorite beverage while you prepare dinner or just to have a snack and relax.

recipes.

Whipped Feta with Lemon and Dill

How to Cook with Garlic Scapes - Great suggestions here!

Garlic Scape Kale Pesto

on the farm.

Dry Dry Dry, ground so hard, grass will die. Love your mother be kind to your brother, only once chance, you don’t get another

It’s been almost 2 months with no significant rain out here and we are heading into the driest part of the summer. Typically, but nothing is typical anymore when it comes to weather. Vegetables require 1” of water every single week for optimum growth and quality. We are irrigating everyday all day. Wobblers, big water guns, and drip tape, anything we have is out there, throwing water. We started a seed garlic enterprise this year(selling seed), so you will be getting a lot of scapes (garlic flowers) and eventually a good amount of garlic. We had said we would have rhubarb, but there has been so many items to put in the box and so many weeds to pull and so much irrigating to do we just ran out of time to drive over to the rhubarb patch at Sleepy Root Farm and get it. Next time... Solistice is upon us and the days are long, which mean LOTS of growth for the next month to 6 weeks (as long as we keep the water flowing). Summer squash is flowering, cucumbers are ramping up, tomatoes are climbing every time you turn your head, corn leaping out of the ground, winter squash sending out vines to cover the ground and set fruit. Its dizzying. And to top it off we are now starting to think about fall. yep. we just got started and now we are thinking about it being over. But if you do the math on broccoli, 30 days as a seedling in the greenhouse puts us at 3rd week in July, and harvest is in 60-70 days from planting so we are at the 3rd week in Sept, or early October, with a typical 2-3 week harvest window. And that puts us with the leaf drop just around the corner. But so much happens between then and now! So much goodness is growing and will be coming your way.

We hope everyone is breathing a little easier as the air quality improves. Hoping for some good soaking rain even if it means our ice cream social gets rained out… If it does get rained out, there’s always next month! Last Sunday of each month 1:00-4:00 for our Sunday Sundaes Ice Cream Socials. Farm store is open Thursday-Saturday 12-6. Meat, cheese, veggies, maple syrup, honey, and soft serve ice cream available. Farm store is also open during the ice cream social. Hope you can make it out sometime!