It was a muddy morning as Joe unloaded 640 heads of lettuce into our wash house. These lettuce heads were then dunked and sprayed and quickly cooled so they remain crunchy and sweet.
This is a ALL SHARES week...FULL and HALF Vegetable and Fruit Shares!
Pick up is Thursday, August 8th.
4-7 pm at your respective site.
Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...
Arugula
3 Heads Lettuce (romaine, green leaf and red leaf)
Broccoli
Fresh, Sweet, White Onions
Purple Potatoes
Celery
Sweet Corn
Summer Squash
Sweet, White Onions are curing in our shade cloth-covered greenhouse.
CSA members will receive fresh (uncured), cleaned versions of these onions this week.
We pulled these shallots out of the ground and they are curing as well.
Curing is controlled drying. When certain varieties of onions are grown to maturity and cured properly, they will keep for many months without sprouting.
Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...
(L-R) Shiro Plums, Blueberries, Peaches and Methely Plums
- Shiro Plums (Mick Klug Farm -Eat these now or hold onto them in the fridge for a few days)
- Blueberries (Mick Klug Farm)
- Peaches (Mick Klug Farm - Peaches will be fully ripe in a day or two on the counter)
- Methley Plums (Seedling Fruit - Eat these juice bombs right now! Lean over though or you may stain your shirt!)
This is a look inside our 2nd walk in cooler at a time when there is quite a bit of elbow room.
It's not usually this spacious.
Just look at all those future flower bouquets!
One of our cutest CSA members picks up a fresh fennel bulb and a bag of edible flowers at our farm stand to add to her salad tonight!
Please stop by and see us to purchase retail farm products.....
*Every Thursday 4 - 7 pm on the farm
*Every Saturday 8 am - 2 pm on the farm
*Every Sunday 10 am - 3 pm at the Logan Square Farmers Market
*Every first and third Sunday of the month
May 5 through October 20, 2013 9 am - 3 pm at Chicago Botanic Garden
www.tempelfarmsorganics.com
Thank You!
