Our featured photo comes from Glacial Till Farm. Buckwheat in bloom, a pollinator's paradise! While you won't see buckwheat in your CSA shares, the cover crop is an integral part of growing nutritious veggies. After growing for a period of time, cover crops are tilled into the soil to add nutrients and microbiology to the soil. Healthy soil grows healthy food.
New (or returning) items this week:
- Cantaloupe from Detweiler Farm. Only 50 available so I will leave them out of the share build and let you add them to your share if you want one. Be quick before they disappear!
- Arugula from Harmony Grove Farm
- Heirloom tomatoes from Grateful Life Farm, as well as regular tomatoes and paste tomatoes from Detweiler Farm
- Green Summercrisp lettuce from Spur Hollow Farm
- Cherry tomatoes in mixed colors from Grateful Life Farm, as well as the Sungold Cherry Tomatoes from Detweiler Farm
- Tomatillos from Detweiler Farm. Pair them with Jalpenos from Glacial Till Farm for salsa verde!
- Chicken pieces and beef cuts from Moose Farm added
- 7 Grain Bread, Mom's Italian Bread, and S'More Blossom Cookies are the baked goods this week from Dinner Bell Farm
I have a few housekeeping items to let you know about for the coming weeks.
1. I will be on vacation this week (Sunday - Sunday). I will still do the behind-the-scenes stuff, including setting up CSA for the week and sending emails. However, three of our regular packers won't be there (me and two of my daughters), so hopefully your shares will still be packed accurately.
2. We have a substitute driver this week because my daughter Gwen usually makes our deliveries. Deliveries may run a little late if things don't go as smoothly as usual.
3. Franklin deliveries will be at the end of the route this week, after 4:30 p.m.
4. Share finalization will occur on Monday the following weeks: 8/30, 9/6, 9/21, and 9/28. If your share is charged to your debit card please make sure funds are in your account a day early. Share finalization also triggers the reminder email ("Your share is on its way!") that you usually receive on Tuesdays.
5. Salsa/Hummus Shares will be delivered Sept. 8-9, even though they are on the schedule for this week. If you have an every-other-week share with the Salsa share, you can either reschedule this week's share to next week or we will just hold your salsa until your next delivery.
6. I will not be working on 9/16, so our substitute driver will deliver that Thursday also.
I don't have much in the way of farm news to share this week, so hopefully we will have more to share next week. Now I'm off to get ready for our trip to Maine!
Amy
