Options are fantastic this week! Watermelons, Green Beans, Onions (red and yellow), Potatoes (purple and gold), Golden Beets, delicious Cherry tomatoes (with a specially discounted price) and even Salad greens! (Plus fermented vegetables and herbal products...oh my!)
SAVE THE DATE: Farm Share Social will be Saturday, October 2nd from 3p-5p here at the farm. We'll have food and beverages - and door prizes! You're welcome to bring food to share if you'd like to showcase something you enjoy, but there's no obligation. We (Dan and Janet) will be here to meet you, match faces with names, answer any questions, and give a brief farm tour at 4:00. It's a lovely thing to visit the farm on a fall afternoon and soak in the surroundings! We hope you'll be able to visit where we've grown so much food for you this season!
SAVE THE DATE Part II: We're hosting another Rustic Crafting Workshop on Oct 9 & 10. Details are here as a Facebook event. Our guest instructors are talented and amazing! Join us to make you own chef's knife blade, or carve a wooden spoon, or stitch a leather bag, or make a bow-drill kit, or one of numerous other options.
Plus our instructors bring gorgeous creations that are for sale:
Vegetable Storage Reminder: keep Tomatoes and Eggplants OUT of the fridge. All GREENS and ROOTS need to be refrigerated in an AIR TIGHT bag or container to prevent going limp/wilty.
If you're short on fridge space, you can also keep Peppers, Onions, Potatoes, Garlic, and Cucumbers (for a brief time) out of the fridge.
EGGPLANT Recipe suggestion: These beauties suck up the flavor of whatever you surround them with, so cover/coat/soak them with yumminess! Whether you go an Italian route or use an Asian inspired combination of flavors, we love to slice them in 1/4 inch thickness and cook them down with tons of herbs/sauces/flavors. Enjoy!
--->Remember to collect Tomatoes in paper bags with your name on them! - (We don't put them in cold storage with the other vegetables that we keep in our walk in cooler for the night before your pick up day.) They are in a crate right beside the green boxes/cold vegetables. (Same for breads, flowers, and a cooler for fermented vegetables, and eggs...)
LAST CALL for this month's HERB BOXES from Gathered Threads! The options are delicious and sumptuous! Choose from...
- Herbs for Body & Soul: Sleep Balm | Clary Sage Body Powder | Keep Calm Herbal Extract Kit | Lemon Lavender Truffles Kit | Orange Basil Sugar Scrub
- Herbs for the Kitchen: Herbs for Cream Cheese Spread | Butterfly Vinegar Kit | Mexican Pinto Beans Seasoning Kit | Thai Basil Lemongrass Simple Syrup Kit | Mexican Tarragon
- Herbs for Tea & Wellness: The Shade Sipper Tea | Majestic Mountain Tea Blend | Cal-c-ommm… (Calcium) Tea | Head to Toe Massage Oil Kit | Yucca Flower Essence
The delicious fermented vegetables listed here are also from Katherine at Gathered Threads. We've been making our own fermented/cultured vegetables for years, and hers are the most delicious we've ever tasted! Give them a try. Your taste buds and your gut flora will thank you. This month's options include: Caraway, Simply Sauer, Russian, Chinese Fisherman, Spicy Napa kimchi, Kimchi, White Kimchi, The Green & Black, Beet Kraut, Beet n Fennel, Beet & Onion Pickle, Gingered Carrots, Sauerrubenkraut, By the Bay, Red head, Apple Juniper, Rosemary'd Turnips
And - There are EGGS available today!
Blessings on your meals ~
