June nineteenth, 2023 Publication | Monroe Natural Farms

Expensive Farm Associates,

 Our first week was recent 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 develop into a flower.  Once we take away them from the still-growing garlic crops the garlic bulbs get bigger.  It’s a win-win harvesting them.  They’re so scrumptious and eradicating them helps our garlic get massive! 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.  You may also add them into pesto or into hummus.  Hakurei turnips could be shaved or sliced, dressed with oil and vinegar then eaten uncooked, steamed, or cooked any which method. We love to easily cube all these new veggies and throw them in collectively in a stir fry with salad on the aspect.  The turnip greens are simply revived in chilly water after which could 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 likely be getting it this week.

Zelle funds: We nonetheless have just a few Zelle funds that we haven’t been in a position to place with an account.  One was made in Could for $215.00 and the opposite was made final week for $200.00. Please, if this might be you, name the workplace!  You could tell us if the fee is coming from a reputation that isn’t hooked up to your account so we are able to add that title to your account. 

Please make certain any emails from [email protected] usually are not going to your spam folder.  We’ve got one new member who we solely have an electronic mail tackle for.  We’d like your different contact data.  If that is you, name the workplace or electronic mail us again!

What’s in your bag and tips on how to use all of it:  Bear in mind, your bag could appear small now, however it can continue to grow and rising.  Quickly there will likely be extras on the aspect to seize resembling tomatoes and melons.  Cucumbers are going to be approaching in full pressure very shortly.  It seems to be like we’re going to have an superior carrot 12 months.   Sure crops might be delayed as a result of 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’d like excessive temps for heat loving crops like peppers, melons, and tomatoes.  Please keep in mind that Linda within the workplace received’t be capable to see into the long run and let you know precisely what you’re going to be getting subsequent week or the subsequent.  In case you’re at a loss with what to do with sure greens, ask your distribution heart and keep in mind there are literally thousands of recipes on-line.  Google could be useful when in search of a recipe.  Think about ordering our CSA cookbook that has tons of neighborhood sourced recipes for every veggie chances are you’ll encounter. 

Veggie Wash

Juice from a complete 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 making an attempt to take away wax from retailer purchased veg) Scrub frivolously on comfortable skinned veggies and extra aggressively on exhausting 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 celebration?  It was grounded. 

With gratitude,

Kyle, Sam, Jacquie, Jerry, Linda, & The Crew