Expensive Farm Associates,
Our first week was contemporary and scrumptious however this week is even higher! What’s in your bag this week? Garlic, garlic scapes, squash, (both zucchini, spherical zucchini, or yellow squash), sugar snap peas, Hakurei turnips, and inexperienced butter head lettuce. The scapes are the tops of the garlic that if allowed would turn out to be a flower. After we take away them from the still-growing garlic vegetation the garlic bulbs get bigger. It’s a win-win harvesting them. They’re so scrumptious and eradicating them helps our garlic get large! Garlic scapes are a fleeting favourite of many. They’re extraordinarily versatile. They are often grilled or roasted and eaten as a vegetable, minced and added to salads & eggs (like inexperienced onion) and are fabulous chopped up and added to any stir fry. It’s also possible to add them into pesto or into hummus. Hakurei turnips will be shaved or sliced, dressed with oil and vinegar then eaten uncooked, steamed, or cooked any which manner. We love to easily cube all these new veggies and throw them in collectively in a stir fry with salad on the facet. The turnip greens are simply revived in chilly water after which will be steamed, or rubbed with oil and salt, then air fried or baked into chips.
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Fruit: We expect to start out getting fruit in July with considered one of many cherry varieties!
Honey: These of you who ordered month-to-month and bimonthly will probably be getting it this week.
Zelle funds: We nonetheless have a number of Zelle funds that we haven’t been capable of place with an account. One was made in Might for $215.00 and the opposite was made final week for $200.00. Please, if this could possibly be you, name the workplace! You could tell us if the cost is coming from a reputation that isn’t hooked up to your account so we are able to add that identify to your account.
Please ensure any emails from jacquie@monroefarm.com aren’t going to your spam folder. We have now one new member who we solely have an e-mail handle for. We want your different contact data. If that is you, name the workplace or e-mail us again!
What’s in your bag and the right way to use all of it: Bear in mind, your bag could appear small now, however it’s going to continue to grow and rising. Quickly there will probably be extras on the facet to seize similar to tomatoes and melons. Cucumbers are going to be approaching in full pressure very shortly. It appears like we’re going to have an superior carrot 12 months. Sure crops could possibly be delayed attributable to all of the moisture we’ve been getting paired with how unusually cool it has been. This week would be the first time we’ve gotten into the 90’s. This lack of warmth is uncommon for us being in the course of June already. We want excessive temps for heat loving crops like peppers, melons, and tomatoes. Please keep in mind that Linda within the workplace received’t have the ability to see into the long run and inform you precisely what you’re going to be getting subsequent week or the following. In case you’re at a loss with what to do with sure greens, ask your distribution middle and keep in mind there are literally thousands of recipes on-line. Google will be useful when in search of a recipe. Think about ordering our CSA cookbook that has tons of group sourced recipes for every veggie you might encounter.
Veggie Wash
Juice from an entire lemon
2 Tablespoons Vinegar
1 cup water
1 spray bottle & scrub brush
Combine and spray onto floor of veggies. Let sit for a minute or two. (Longer if attempting to take away wax from retailer purchased veg) Scrub flippantly on delicate skinned veggies and extra aggressively on arduous skinned produce like winter squash, cucumbers, root veggies and melons. Leafy greens merely ought to be sprayed, let sit 5 min. then rinsed.
Why couldn’t the turnip go to the social gathering? It was grounded.
With gratitude,
Kyle, Sam, Jacquie, Jerry, Linda, & The Crew
