What’s in the box?

Salad greens, baby carrots, sprouting cauliflower, dill, green garlic.

• There will be several kinds of fresh salad greens in your box this week! Why don’t we specify exactly which ones? While we usually have a pretty good idea of what greens will be ready, the final decision is made when we harvest on CSA pick up day. Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday pick ups might each receive different greens depending on what is at it’s peak that day.
• Last week I mentioned that carrots were a few weeks away. Surprise! We decided to pick some this week as baby carrots. They might be small in size but the flavour is big!

• Sprouting cauliflower was a new crop for us last season. We experimented with a small planting – it grew well, tasted great and was very well received at our farmers’ market and in our fall CSA box one week. This year we are planting more and hope to have it in the box several times over the season. Sprouting cauliflower produces florets on many long, sweet, slender stems rather than one large tight cauliflower head. It has the familiar cauliflower taste. We think you will like it!

• Dill is one of my favourite herbs. We use it a lot, especially with eggs – in egg salad, scrambled eggs … Keep it in water like a flower bouquet and it will last at least a week. Or stuff it in a jar and freeze it to use later.
• Green garlic completes the box.

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Around the farm this week …

It’s exciting to see the new crops starting to mature. Along with carrots & cauliflower (see above), we are expecting zucchini very soon. Beets, green onions, kohlrabi, radishes & salad turnips are coming quickly as well.

Our tomatoes are all mulched and staked. Amy is busy pruning and tying them now. Some varieties of cherry tomatoes are loaded with tiny fruit already!

Everything is growing quickly now … including the weeds!

We planted out the winter squash this past week.

I left some of the cover crop field unmowed so the pollinators & other insects could enjoy the flowers.

It was great to see so many friendly, familiar faces at CSA pick up last week – and meet all our new members too!