Fair Share Farm CSA---Week 5

BUTTERHEAD LETTUCE: These beauties are the payoff for all worry of a Spring lettuce crop amid hailstorms and more. We are finally into the lettuces that never bore the brunt of the May storms. They don't call them butterhead for nothing.
RED LEAF LETTUCE: Our versatile red leaf is great in a chef's salad piled high with cheese, meat, nuts, fruit, or whatever else you desire.
STRAWBERRIES: As the harvest wains, the berries get smaller. But they are a perfect size to fit into a pint container, giving us pickers satisfaction as we fill the boxes.
GREENS CHOICE: The kale and chard are giving out some leaves and the beets need thinning, so you get a choice.
SPROUTING BROCCOLI: One of our favorite vegetables, we suggest pairing it with one of our ferments or ferment juices to take the flavor up a notch.
GREEN ONIONS: First onions of the year!
PARSLEY: A farm fresh garnish for any dish.

The last two weeks we have been a part of several wonderful culinary events. On the 2^nd we were a part of a Fence Stile Winery Sunday dinner. Chef Pete Dulin prepared some wonderful dishes which included our ingredients. One was a vegetarian adaptation of Thai green papaya salad that included carrot, tomato. long bean, red cabbage, onion, and some pickled lemongrass daikon from Fair Share Farm. It was as delicious as it sounds.

The following Saturday we were a part of Meet the Makers. This was a filmed event by the PBS series TasteMAKERS. We were thrilled to be considered a KC Tastemaker, and enjoyed talking with folks and meeting other local makers.

FARM REPORT: 

It’s winding down now, but the 2019 strawberry crop was epic!! Thank you to all the folks who trekked out to the farm to u-pick berries.  You gave your farmers a weekend free of crawling through the patch, and looked like you had fun doing it. 

That’s CSAers on their farm shifts weeding the garlic Saturday morning, while the u-pickers pulled over 100 pounds out of the patch.

Meanwhile, the weather turned dry.  After all the flooding this Spring, it’s hard to believe.  Our ground has changed from soup to a brick with cracks running through it.  Mulching and watering help tremendously.   

The tomatoes are starting to look pretty perky considering where they were a few weeks ago.  The peppers on the left side of the photo are still a bit off, but are starting to green up. 

We may pick the first squash this week out of this out of this planting.Cucumbers are a couple of weeks away but the plants are improving, so fingers crossed.

Probably the happiest crop on the farm at the moment is the carrots.They are starting to size up and we should have them in the shares next week.It is a testament to the practice of planting a diversity of crops.No matter the weather you will have some that thrive under those conditions and others not so much. Overall, we all still get to eat well.