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Farm Happenings for July 18, 2018

Posted on June 29th, 2018 by Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht

Farm News: OK going on 3 weeks now with NO rain. Barely a drop. That's called drought! It means that lots of time must be spent placing pipe, moving pipe, to get water on crops to keep everything alive. We just planted our LAST planting of tomatoes - they will be bearing in September hopefully to keep your share interesting as late in the fall as we can! By the end of July, almost everything for the whole season will have been planted... bearing fruit (or more accurately, veggies) right through November.

New on the list this week: our own sweet corn! Our annual warning for new members:  Organic sweet corn is hard to grow because of heavy pest pressure from corn earworms in New York State. That is just a fact of life of organic production, as contrasted with conventional farmers who are spraying highly toxic chemicals on their corn every three days or so. 

We work very hard to bring you super sweet corn for you to enjoy, it is a highlight of our season and we hope it is a highlight of yours. We wish we could cull through every ear at the farm, but this would mean that we wouldn’t have time to harvest all the crops that we want to send you in your share! If you get corn with a worm or other imperfection, just snap off any affected tips, the rest of the ear is not affected. If the tip of the corn or a strip along the side doesn’t have kernels and instead is just white, that just means that it was not pollinated, not that it was bad.

At times, some very small ones get harvested and distributed – we try to take these home and eat them ourselves… but even if it’s just a few mouthfuls, it’s pretty good. Please know we don’t ever intend for you to receive anything damaged obviously, we spend hundreds of man-hours each week going through the produce, culling, and packaging it so it arrives at your CSA in good shape. However, sometimes our best efforts are thwarted.

FRUIT SHARE: NYS apricots and "white" cherries

EGG SHARE: 1 dozen eggs (and make-up eggs for those biweekly shares whose were missing 2 weeks ago)

FLOWER SHARE: 1 bunch of sunflowers - these will NOT be in your bag, they will be in a bucket, please take yours as needed (and do NOT take if your label does NOT SAY "flower share" or "combo")

Bread:  Brioche from Blue Duck Bakery made in Southold, NY, a rich buttery bread great for grilled cheese, French toast, and more. (2 weeks ago was “Filone”, a nice Italian Loaf. Sorry for listing the wrong thing at the time)

CHEESE: 1 Fines Herbes Goat Logs AND  1 piece Lambington  AND 1 piece Perlitta: Raw Jersey cow milk. Aged for 24 months in a 4-5 lb wheel. Deep caramel tones and aroma that can only be reached after two years in the cave.

MEAT: Finally, the 2nd meat share! Beef and pork cuts from NYS grassfed animals, possibly some local Long Island Duck.