Special Announcement!
I expect this closing to cause delays on Route 45. Please be patient, listen to some good music in your car and know that once you arrive on the farm you'll be greeted with healthy and vibrant selection of vegetables, eggs, flowers and chicken waiting for you!
This week is for all CSA members, Full and Half Shares of Vegetables as well as our Seasonal Fruit Shares.
Your Vegetable Share this week will include:
Kohlrabi
2 types of lettuce, Red Curly and Red Butterhead
Fresh Cut Parsley
Fennel
Broccoli
Red Beets with Greens
Shelling Peas
Sorrel
Fresh Cut Summer Savory
Zucchini and/or Yellow Crookneck Squash
Your Seasonal Fruit Share will include:
2 pints of Raspberries
1 pint of Sweet Cherries
As we start up our Fruit fields this year on the farm and watch last year's plantings grow I await in anticipation for our production to go into full bloom. In some cases it will be a few years until we see enough fruit to fulfill our Fruit Shares. We were able to harvest a good amount of strawberries this season and were happy to share them with you.
In the meantime, I order our fruit from a few chosen fruit farmers that we know and trust their growing practices. My recent conversation that I had with Mick from Klug Farm was one that shows that even fruit farmers have had a rough start with the cool Spring and with the amount of rainfall that Michigan has had this early Summer has put some of his crops in jeopardy. One crop being his Early Sweet Cherries. It seems you can never have just the right amount of rainfall for your crops, though I always say that you can always irrigate if there isn't enough but too much can cause not only flooding in your fields but can also cause the fruit to split. This is what happened with most of Mick's Early Sweet Cherries. He was able to get into the trees and harvest enough to fill pints for our members for this week's shares.
Summer seasons always leave us with great memories and lasting taste of sweet fruit that we desire for all Winter long. Let's enjoy it while it lasts!
Recipes, Ideas and more!
The fresh shelling peas are a perfect snack that may not make it to the plate for dinner. These can be easily pealed by pulling back the strip in the middle and breaking apart the shell with your thumb. The glorious peas don't stand a chance as it takes not even a second to eat them. Enjoy!
Summer Savory, a fresh herb rarely seen at grocery stores. This versatile herb is related to rosemary and thyme that could be added to your poultry dishes, soups, oils, egg dishes and veggies. If you have a spare glass jar around you could create your own oil by putting in a few sprigs of Summer Savory and add a high quality oil to it. This will make a great tasting dressing for any salad. You can also try adding this to your zucchini either roasted or sauteed adding some Parmesan on top.
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| Joe harvesting beautiful bunches of parsley |
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| First harvest of broccoli this season! |
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| Once our broiler chickens are fully feathered they are transferred from our brooder to the vast pasture fields. |
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| Michael taking great care as he transports the broilers out to pasture. |
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| Our hoophouse tomatoes are growing strong and should ripen in a few weeks! |
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| Chris harvesting a bounty of Yellow Crookneck Squash. |
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| A close up of Yellow Crookneck Squash. |
We hope that all of you are enjoying the bounty of the farm! Remember to stop by and visit us on Saturdays from 8 until 2pm. Our farm stand will be open offering a variety of vegetables, fresh cut flowers, pasture raise eggs and chicken! We are all working hard to offer local, organically grown healthy food so please help us spread the word and tell those you know that we'll be open rain or shine and even during the road closing! Thank you!
Your farmers,
Tania and Chris Cubberly and our crew: Charlie, Mario, Joe, Fransisco, Elliot, Sherman, Armando and Michael!
