CSA Week 9!

 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.

CSA Week 8!

 

Your Vegetable CSA share for this week.

 

 

 

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, August 1st. 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 hello!

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

  

• 2 beautiful, purple Eggplant
• 3 mini Romaine Lettuce Heads
• Leeks
• Yellow Wax Beans
• Slicing Cucumbers
• Golden Beets with Greens
• 1 Garlic Head
• Cilantro

Armenian Striped Cucumber*

These Armenian Cucumbers are really crunchy, and sweet

but certainly not uniform!

You will receive one of these beauties whether long and curled or short and straight.

The skin is very thin and great to eat so don't peel them.

Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...

 

• Pristine Apples (a nice early summer variety! sweet - tart)
• Nectarines
• Apricots
• Peaches

Golden sunlight following an afternoon shower.

Our multi-colored hogs enjoying the rain after a long, hot spell.







Here we inspecting a sampling of 4 of the 7 colorful varieties of potatoes we planted this year.
This is turning out to be a great potato and onion year for us!


 
 



Have you been seeing a lot of these green katydids around lately?
We have.
This one rests on our cooler door.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yellow wheat straw from our winter wheat was cut, baled and loaded into
the barn for use as bedding for our laying hens.


 
 
 
 
 
 




We offer flower arrangements for special occasions.
Send us an email for more details!

















To ALL off-farm CSA members!

Please return your past weeks fruit and vegetable boxes.
We will reuse them.

CSA Week 7!

Part of our hard working, hat wearing harvest crew.

(L - R) Chis A., Jesus, Kyle, Dan, Peter and Tomas

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

 

Pick up is Thursday, July 25th.

4-7 pm at your respective site.

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

 

• Cucumbers

• Sweet Corn

• Green Beans

• Fresh Cippolini Onions

• Romanesco

• Cauliflower

• Dill

• Yellow Squash and Green Zucchini

• Toscano Kale
  
  

  

  Romanesco
  

Farm Stand SATURDAY & Logan Square SUNDAY!

Come Check Out the Farm Stand on Saturday

Lots and lots of Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Eggs

 

The Farm Stand is open today, Saturday July 27th  8 am - 2 pm.

Click for a map.

Also...

 

Please Join Us TOMORROW, SUNDAY at the

Logan Square Farmers Market!

 

The Logan Square Farmers Market is open tomorrow, Sunday July 28st  10 am - 3 pm.

 

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

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.