Luscious
The farm is lush and green and beautiful. The first few harvests of each crop has been fun but challenging this year, sifting through leaves and branches searching for beans, cucumbers, melons, eggplant and now peppers! I sometimes wonder what it would be like to farm in a frost free climate, where the growing season is longer; where our efforts of growing and planting a seedling would be rewarded with several months of harvest, rather just several weeks. My peppers, tomatoes and melon plants are loaded with flowers that will never mature before frost, which is a little sad but true. This week we will dive into sweet and hot peppers, the first of many that will ripen before cold temps hit...hopefully : )
The melons are going strong and tasting sweet! We are starting to transition from the early varieties to the later maturing ones...can't believe it is mid August already.
This week's bounty: lettuce, onion, garlic, pepper, eggplant, tomato, cucumber, summer squash, zucchini, carrot, beet, chard, melon, corn? (not sure if it's ready yet) dill, cilantro, parsley
The Farmer's Table: (sorry for the lapse...we have been eating but I've been so busy, my blogs have been quickly written : )
*chard with tomato -- saute onion and garlic, add tomatoes and chard. Serve over zucchini noodles. Add sausage if you'd like. yum.
*zucchini, egg, mushroom frittata -- yum
*lots of raw cucumbers, carrots, hakurei and kohl rabi with homemade dip -- yum.
*homemade pizza with kale and sauteed eggplant and mushrooms -- yum
