This Week's Box
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1 quart Basil
A quart of basil contains just enough basil to make a batch of pesto for your family's dinner. Don't want to eat pesto this week? Mix it up in your food processor and freeze it (without the cheese) in ice cube trays for later.
1 bu Beets
Ohhh beets, what's not to love? Steam them and toss them in a salad or on top of a summery pasta with cheese. Kids love them plain or with a bit of yogurt on the side. A bunch of beets has about 4-6 medium sized beets...just enough to leave you wanting more!
1 bu Carrots
One bunch of carrots contains approx. 3/4 to 1 lb of carrots. We never peel our carrots, because we love the full taste of the minerals from the soil, which are best stored in the skins. Always remove the greens from your carrots to ensure the best long term storage of the roots.
1 bu Celery
One celery bunch is a small head of celery. Our celery is more strongly flavored than the watery celery you'll find in the store. It adds a wonderfully robust flavor to soups and stir-fries.
1 bu Corn
You don't need to worry about eating our sweet corn because it's been grown without pesticides from seed that is tested for GMO contamination. The sweet, crunchy taste of our fresh corn speaks for itself!
1 bulb Garlic
There's nothing quite like fresh garlic recently harvested, crushed onto a deep rye bread and toasted with olive oil. Keep the bulbs near you in the kitchen and use in everything to heighten the flavor of every dish.
1 bu Leeks
We love the clean lines of those upright leeks as they mature in the field, deepening in color as the cold begins to set in again. Their taste, though, is anything but flat or cold. Those roots contain a sweet, understated allium taste all their own. Potato leek soup is our fall staple, but our friends make a leek pasta dish with parmesan cheese that's to die for.
1 bu Peppers
Our bell peppers will knock the socks off the watery, tasteless ones you find in the grocery store. Even the green ones have a clear taste that you'll want to feature in a taco or simmer into a chili.
1 qu Potatoes
One quart of potatoes is enough potatoes for a small side dish of potatoes with your family's dinner. We never peel our potatoes because we love the color of the skins mixed in with our mashed potatoes, and the texture in the potato salad.
1 qu Potatoes
One quart of potatoes is enough potatoes for a small side dish of potatoes with your family's dinner. We never peel our potatoes because we love the color of the skins mixed in with our mashed potatoes, and the texture in the potato salad.
1 qu Potatoes
One quart of potatoes is enough potatoes for a small side dish of potatoes with your family's dinner. We never peel our potatoes because we love the color of the skins mixed in with our mashed potatoes, and the texture in the potato salad.
1 bu Tomatoes
Our tomatoes represent a nice variety of hybrid slicing tomatoes and heirloom beauties. We do cook with our heirloom tomatoes because of their remarkable taste...but don't forget to add some paste; they can be quite juicy!
Well, we may have spoke too soon when we predicted last week that fall was coming early! The high temperatures and blistering sun this week have brought summer back with a vengeance, and we're thankful that we got a good rain a week and a half ago to carry us through. The fall gardens have been tough to get going between the sparse rain and critters, but we are persevering. One bright spot for us this week was when Steve completed work on a watering cart that can be pulled behind the tractor. That put an end to our bucket watering, which was fun for Isis (who plays in the large bins of water we truck out to the field) but less fun for us and our crew! We hope you've enjoyed the summer abundance as it nears its end, and that you're looking forward to the crisp greens and warming winter squash that are right around the corner. This week we'll be delivering the perfect complement of ingredients to make a potato leek & celery soup. Make it one of these cool nights and enjoy it with fresh bread!