Hello!
Welcome to week 9!
Last week we were finally able to turn off our window air conditioners and fans and fall asleep listening to the crickets sing with the cool night air. Although the days have still remained in the upper 80's we've kept up a good pace around here. We spent much of our day on Wednesday and Thursday pulling onions out of the ground, loading them into crates and then organizing them on tables in the greenhouse for them to cure.
This season you've been able to enjoy shallots, wala wala onions and red cippolinis in your shares. We also grew yellow storage onions and yellow cippolinis that will be in your shares the next couple of weeks.Harvested just for you.........
Lettuce Mix
Red, Cioggia, and Gold Beets with out greens
Cucumbers
Wala Wala Onions
Crimini Mushrooms*
A Variety of Tomatoes
Carrots with green tops
Fresh Thyme
Fruit Shares:
Nectarines
Blackberries
Red Raspberries*
Red Raspberries may be substituted with peaches this week due to the rains in Michigan. These berries are very fragile to harvest in the rain so lets see what happens and hope that the rains go away for harvest time.
Your crimini mushrooms are from our friends from River Valley Ranch in Burlington Wisconsin. These will go wonderfully sauteed with your wala wala onions. Here is a nice recipe that could be paired with your entree or topped on a slice of great crusty bread.
Don't Forget!
Saturday August 7th is our Second Annual Farm Tour! We'll open our doors starting at 12:30pm and will start the tour promptly at 1pm. The tour will start at 18080 W. Millburn Road. You'll find plenty of parking there. There will be washrooms and water available there. The tour will consist of lots of walking and lots of talking. Please wear good walking shoes ( no sandals or flip flops ), bring your water bottle, wear sun screen, a sun hat will be a great relief, your camera and your questions!
One more note.................
It's great to see all our members so interested in locally grown healthy food especially the children help out mom, dad, or grandparents to help pick food from the table. I know one dad that will buy his kids ice cream if they can identify all the vegetables they are picking up. Here are a few shining faces that we see at our farm.
Enjoy the bounty of the farm!
Your farmers,
Tania and Chris Cubberly
