Dad and Eddie inspecting the wheat. We seeded this organic winter wheat last fall and it is looking good and coming very close to harvest. We will have ground Whole Wheat Flour as well as Wheat Berries for retail sale in the coming weeks!
This is a ALL SHARES week...FULL and HALF Vegetable and Fruit Shares!
Pick up is Thursday, July 11th.
4-7 pm at your respective site.
Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...
Broccoli
Green Zucchini
Chioggia Beets with Greens
Green Scallions
TFO Salad Mix (lettuce, radicchio, dill and Italian parsley)
Cilantro
Scarlet Turnips without greens
Fresh Garlic Bulb
Red Russian Kale
Our zucchini crop is just starting. More to come.
Joe is displaying a Chioggia beet (pronounced - key-oh-jah) he just pulled from the ground and cut in half. We love these Italian heirlooms and you will too.
They are beautiful and sweet when roasted or braised. The greens are really fantastic as well when roughly chopped and tossed into the pot for last 5 - 10 minutes of cooking.
Harvesting cilantro.
Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...
All from Mick Klug Farm
- Montmorency Tart Cherries
- Duke Blueberries
- Encore Red Raspberries
- Black Raspberries
Black Raspberries!
A fleeting summer treat.
Recipes!
Sunflower Harvest!
Fresh bouquets will be at the Farm Stand on Thursday
and at the Logan Square Farmer's Market on Sunday.
We are busy building another walk-in cooler.
Just in time as we are bursting at the seems with vegetables and flowers.
Having two coolers also gives us the opportunity to keep certain items at different temperatures
for optimum storage.
Joe, Peter and Kyle shown here with big smiles on their faces, all cozied up for a 4 wheel drive into the fields to continue the harvest.
Little did they know at the time but about 7 minutes later they were completely drenched
by one of a few downpours. Ah...the glamour of farming.
