What should you do if your farm fresh vegetables have spots or imperfections?
You don’t need to throw the whole item out, save what you can. The earlier you catch it the more you can save and use. Usually the rest of the fruit or vegetable will taste great after you cut off a bad spot.
Unlike the produce grown in the irrigated, desert farms of California, our crops get natural rainfall. Sometimes the veggies absorb too much water.
For example, too much water causes tomatoes to crack, rendering them unusable. We can’t send them to you because they won’t keep. On some picking days we unfortunately have to discard more than half of what is in the field because of cracking and spoilage.
That means that the items that go in your box are the best of what made it in from the field.
I just learned a trick this week to help vegetables, like winter squash, last longer. Wipe the outside of the winter squash with vinegar to kill mold spores. Check your veggies regularly. If you find a small spot, it’s time to use it now.
