Assortment of crops growing in our field
This week's offerings: New veggies this week are beets, and celery. Snap peas are now done, but we will occasionally send pea shoots your way that we start in the greenhouse. Sometimes we use peas as a cover crop, grown for its value in improving the soil for a future vegetable crop, but we can also get a couple of harvests from the tendrils at the same time, which is an added bonus. Incidentally, the picture of the beets include the tops. Sometimes we harvest the tops and send them along to you, but other times we just send the roots without the tops. Taking the tops takes a little more time, and sometimes the tops are not looking fabulous, so each time we harvest beets we see if we will take the time to send them along, or just top them in the field.
Doubles or extras sometimes: If we underestimate the amount of a certain crop that we will have available for your, then the extras we might just add it to your tote even if it may not be on your list. We trust that will be okay! (We won't do it for any of the less popular vegetables.) Also, occasionally if we have harvested the larger specimens of a certain crop, and have only small to medium-sized specimens left to give out, then we might just double up on those items, so that, for example, this week's totes may get 2 small to medium kohlrabi instead of one larger one.
Coming soon: The green beans are starting to flower, which means just a couple of weeks until we might have some beans, and the cherry tomatoes are starting to change color, so the tomatoes are not too far away as well!
Time to hill the potatoes to keep them from turning green!
Here is a recipe that uses much of what we are sending out (thanks to Denise Cawley): https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020264-green-goddess-pasta-salad
Have a good week!
Peter & Bernadette
