In the Share: Week 9

In the Share

ZUCCHINI and YELLOW SQUASH: Our second planting of squash is quite happy at the moment. Everyone should get both types in their share. We fry them up with sweet onions and sweet peppers for a really flavorful vegetable side dish. 

TOMATOES: Peak season is here and the selection is also at its finest. We find there is no better time to enjoy a fresh tomato than right now. Panzanella is a great way to have them, or in a gazpacho. 

POTATOES: Mainly red potatoes this week. We will be digging some white and yellow ones as we clear out the patch too. My Cincinnati roots will give me a hankering for German Potato Salad. 

ONIONS: This will be the last of the Walla Walla’s. They are quite sweet and go well in all the recipes noted above! 

EGGPLANT OR OKRA: This has been a week of baba ganoush making. I made a large batch and froze it in pint containers. It is a really good, and quick, farm lunch. We use it as a spread on a sandwich that you can jazz up with whatever is seasonal. 

SALSA PACK: Fresh salsa is hard to beat and these ingredients are always a good combo. 

PEPPERS: They are starting to ripen and bring out their sweetness. Fry them up with some squash and onions. 

HERBS: Basil along with some rosemary sprigs. The fresh rosemary is especially nice on steamed potatoes with a little butter and salt. 

Farm report 

What lovely weather in which to work.  Every time I curse our midwestern weather, it goes and changes.  It's a very pleasant change both for all of us who work outside for a living and the plants and other animals that live on the farm.    

We have been happily planting the fall crops in this weather.  The last big rainfall was on the way as we finished putting in a big planting of kale, sprouting broccoli and napa cabbage. 

A pretty heavy downpour came and watered them in for us!

After a few days of dry weather, we were able to mulch the patch.

The last three days have been perfectly beautiful for outside work. Today we collected the tarp from where it has been killing fescue for the past month and placed it in the high tunnel. The dark, humid environment the tarp creates forces weed seeds to sprout and die while at the same time encouraging healthy soil life and decomposition of the cover crop. It will stay in there for the next month, until we are ready to plant for the winter season. 

But let’s not talk of winter now, enjoy being outside and soaking up the sunshine. I think that’s what this guy has in mind (or, it might be a female, hard to say).