CSA Week 6



This is Jesus and he has big handfuls of beautiful green beans and yellow wax beans
for our beautiful CSA shareholders and Farm Stand customers!

He won't be able to hold them all. In fact most of them will be combined together in bags for you to blanch, quick grill and add to your pasta or salad. Our kids like them as finger food raw or cooked.

 

 

 

 

This is a FULL SHARES week...Full Vegetable and Fruit Shares!

That means only those with Fruit and FULL Vegetable shares will pick up.

Pick up is Thursday, July 18th. 4-7 pm at your respective site.

Next week is an ALL SHARES week again so HALF SHARE folks, no pick up this week.

But please stop by the farm, pick up a few things in our retail area and say hi!

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

 

• Green Beans and Yellow Wax Beans
• Dark Red Norland New Potatoes
• Fennel Bulbs
• Orange Carrots
• Zucchini and Yellow Squash
• Green Savoy Cabbage
• Chives

We dig these potatoes with a tractor mounted potato digger.
Take a quick look at how it works.

 

 

 

 

We are in the process of digging our garlic as well.

These heads are really big beautiful and strong!

 

Cured garlic will be available in several weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...

• Golden Plums
• Blueberries
• Apricots
• Red Raspberries

Flowers!

Eight year old Beatrix is shown here with a head wreath

of fresh field flowers made by Tania.

 

Craspedia...

 

 

 

and Foxglove are just two of the gorgeous blooms
showing up in our bouquets.  

 

Frank gets these sunflowers to our pack house quick to save them from the

intense heat we have all felt this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eat Well, Eat Local and Thank You!

Farmstand is Open on Saturday

 

Please Join Us TODAY at our Farm Stand!

The Farm Stand is open today, Saturday July 13  8 am - 2 pm.

 

We have a wide selection of vegetables, fruit and flowers for sale.

Click for a map.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also...

 

Please Join Us TOMORROW at the

Logan Square Farmers Market!

 

The Logan Square Farmers Market is open tomorrow, Sunday July 14  10 am - 3 pm.

 

Come see us along with over 50 other vendors. It makes for a great Sunday!

CSA Week 5!

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!

• Raw Chioggia Beet Salad With Honey-Lime Vinaigrette (add your Cilantro here too!)
• Chioggia Beets with Raspberry Mint Vinaigrette (pick up a bunch of fresh mint at the farm stand!)
• Scarlet Queen Red Turnip Salad
• Sautéed Kale With Garlic and Olive Oil (very simple and good)

 

 

 

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.

CSA Week 4!

Morning in our busy and tightly packed wash house.
Joe, Jesus and Kate load vegetables, fruit and eggs out of the walk in cooler and onto a trailer for a quick trip to our farm stand.

Meanwhile, Tania and Michelle make flower bouquets to sell at the farm stand and the Logan Square Famer's Market. In the upper right you can see empty honey supers ready to be placed on bee hives as the nectar flow continues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a FULL SHARES week...Full Vegetable and Fruit Shares!

That means only those with Fruit and FULL Vegetable shares will pick.

Pick up is Wednesday, July 3rd.

4-7 pm at your respective site.

 

 

 

Next week is an ALL SHARES week again so HALF SHARE folks, no pick up this week.

But please stop by the farm, pick up a few things in our retail area and say hi!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

• Red Beets

• Fresh Sweet White Onions

• Hakurei (sweet salad) Turnips

• Rainbow Swiss Chard

• Fennel Bulbs

• Mustard Mix

• Salad Mix (all lettuce)

• Dill

• Edible Flowers

  **Please Note: Some folks may need to taste a bit of each of the bagged greens in order to tell the difference between SALAD MIX and MUSTARD MIX.
  Other folks may be able tell by sight.
  
  
  
  

  

  Edible Flower Petals!
  Bachelor Buttons and Calendula.
  Like July 4th fireworks in your salad!
  

    

Peter and Joe harvesting hakurei turnips




Our Farmall 140 tractor cultivates our immature onion crop.

We harvested a few of these sweet white onions early for you to enjoy just like a leek or large scallion.

 

 

 

 

 

Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...

 

 

• Red Raspberries (Mick Klug Farm)

• Blueberries (Seedling Fruit)

• Sweet Red Cherries (Seedling Fruit)

 

 

 

Recipes!!!

 

•  Spaghetti with Swiss Chard and Garlic (garlic scapes if you have some left from last week??)
• Hakurei Turnips with Greens and Sesame (we normally eat these turnips raw but this recipe sounds really good.)
• Fennel and Orange Salad (use the fresh sweet onions and mustard mix in place of red onion and arugula respectively)
• Lots of Beet recipes!
• Raspberry Breakfast Bars (Use 1 pint raspberries and 1 pint blueberries for a red, white(ish) and blue effect!)

Fresh Dill

 

This is our pto powered pump that we use to irrigate most of our crops.
We dug this pond 2 years ago and it has become invaluable.

Three types of beets in this field.

 

 

 

Please stop by and see us to purchase retail farm products.....

 

 

 

*Every Thursday 4 - 7 pm on the farm(WEDNESDAY JULY 3rd THIS WEEK!!!) 

*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

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSA Week 3!

 

Joe gives the radishes a quick shower before the real washing begins in our wash/pack shed.

The rain gives us plenty of plant growth and plenty of work challenge.

 

 

 

 

This is an ALL SHARES week...Full Vegetable, Half Vegetable and Fruit Shares!

That means that everybody picks up their shares from their respective sites this week.

 

Pick up is Thursday, June 27th.

 

Next week JULY 3rd is ONLY for those with Full Vegetable and Fruit Shares.

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

• Hoophouse Carrots

• Hoophouse Red Skinned Potatoes

• Purple Kohlrabi

• Lettuce Mix

• Red and White Radishes

• White Salad Turnips (we usually eat these raw)

• Italian Flat Leaf Parsley

• Garlic Scapes

• Escarole**(see picture)

 

**Hey folks. This is not lettuce. This is the Italian bitter green known as Escarole.
Fantastic with garlic scapes, white beans and parsley!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...

• Sweet Cherries (one pint) (from Mick Klug Farm)

• Red Raspberries (one pint) (from Mick Klug Farm)

• Strawberries (2 quarts) (from Seedling Fruit)

Saturday On Farm Market!

 

 YES we will be OPEN THIS SATURDAY 6/22!!!

 

 

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 Sundays of the month

           May 5 through October 20, 2013 9 am - 3 pm at Chicago Botanic Garden

 

 

 



CSA Week 2!

 

 

Flowers like these calendulas are coming along nicely despite the unseasonably cool nights.

Tania will have lots of gorgeous bouquets for sale this Thursday and Saturday on the farm.

Also plenty of flowers this Sunday at the Logan Square Farmer's Market! 

Our hardworking crew harvests arugula from under 'row cover'.

This physical barrier protects certain crops from certain pests.

It is also helpful in keeping the covered crop just a bit warmer and moister, therefore

shaving off a few days from the calendar and giving us mature vegetables a few days sooner.

 

 

 

 

This is a FULL SHARES week...Full Vegetable & Fruit Shares!

Pick up is Thursday, June 20th.
4-7 pm at your respective site.

 

 

 

Next week is an ALL SHARES week again so HALF SHARE folks, no pick up this week.

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

• Garlic Scapes (the unopened flower of the garlic plant)

• Head Lettuce (2 green oak leaf & 2 mini red romaine)

• Arugula

• Chinese Cabbage (from our hoophouse)

• Dandelion Greens (long, serrated, dark green leaves)

• Sorrel (shorter, lemony leaves)

• Green Scallions

• Spicy Mustard Salad Mix

• Green Asparagus (from Mick Klug Farm)

  
  
  
  Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...

• Strawberries (3 quarts!)