July third E-newsletter | Monroe Natural Farms

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Expensive Buddies of the farm,

That is week 4 of 18 weeks of CSA.  Crops are beginning to ramp up manufacturing, subject tomatoes are bushing out, and it’s lastly beginning to really feel like summer season round right here.  This week you’ll be receiving onions, garlic, inexperienced kohlrabi, Yukon Gold potatoes, summer season squash, snow peas, pickling and slicing cucumbers and pink Romaine lettuce.  Onions and potatoes have lastly arrived, and we had been very prepared for them round right here. We love the pink Romaine lettuce in Cesar salad.  Slightly salad can actually assist get these digestive juices flowing.

New potatoes have such a young pores and skin that generally they’ll flip brown the place the pores and skin has rubbed off.  They’re not unhealthy in the event that they’re brown!  These newbies are tender and scrumptious any which approach: Sauteed, pan fried, air fried, boiled, baked/roasted, or grated into latkes (and you’ll add zucchini into latkes as properly!)

Kohlrabi is well-known in Europe however not a lot in North America.  It’s an superior cultivar of untamed cabbage.  You possibly can put together it each cooked and uncooked.  It’s crunchy and satisfying as a substitute for cabbage in coleslaw.  For coleslaw peel after which grate.  Cube and steam it for a really nourishing facet dish.  Members of the cabbage household have a lot to supply us, containing many nutritional vitamins and minerals.

Produce Cost:  Half of all remaining charges in your account at the moment are due until you could have made different preparations with the workplace.  Permit one to 2 weeks for us to course of your checks.  You’ll nonetheless get credit score for them arriving on time.   We’ll do our greatest to get them processed as quickly as doable.

Thanks to all our Tuesday members for rearranging your schedules for a Monday pick-up as a result of Fourth of July.  We recognize your cooperation!

We’ve been loving your social media posts 🙂 It provides us lots of pleasure to see lovely shows of your shares and what you’re making with them.

Egg cartons & olive oil bottles:  Croft Household Farm wish to have egg cartons returned to them.  Wholesome Harvests will re-use all returned bottles.  Please run them by your dishwasher or handwash them previous to returning.  Egg cartons and clear olive oil bottles will be delivered to your distribution heart.  Let’s assist them out with this and return these bottles & cartons! 

Shaved Kohlrabi with Mint, Tahini, and Pistachios

BY ANDY BARAGHANI