Hello everyone. After a few days of reaching into that forgotten box of fall clothes, summer is giving us another surge of heat! Enjoy those last few days of shorts and sandals, and definitely catch some sun when you can.
Butternut squash ripe and ready in the fields!
The produce mix is still mostly summery, but with a nod to fall with some butternut squash. If you have never made butternut squash soup, you are missing out! Butternut is the creamiest squash in my opinion, and especially when you add a few potatoes and puree it…it’s pure creamy soup heaven!
We included a little tomatillo salsa kit with a recipe right in your boxes this week. I adapted it to a smaller size for you to try out, complete with a jalapeño (please use gloves when chopping it up and handling the seeds!) and a bunch of cilantro. Hope you enjoy some refreshing salsa in this heat. If you are getting overwhelmed with tomatoes at this point, why not think red salsa as well? Or load some tomatoes on tacos! Nothing is better than a tomato in season!
some tomatillo salsa to spice up your life!
An exciting note for myself (Jennifer) personally- from the 18th-30th I will be travelling to Holland for my husband’s Oma and Opa’s 60th wedding anniversary! Kind of a big deal, and we just couldn’t miss it. But rest assured, your veggies and fruit will still be delivered on schedule. My lovely sister in law will be responding to my emails and you may also phone her in case of an urgent need (her phone number will be included in my voicemail message). We have some capable workers and family at the farm who will be harvesting and lovingly packaging up your shares. I am so excited but it is also so hard to leave the farm mid-season!
Hard at work, enjoying an abundant harvest of baby bokchoy
Here is your list for this week:
Half Shares
- green beans (great to blanch and freeze if you have too many 🙂
- carrots
- red beets
- tomatillo salsa kit
- field tomatoes
- cherry tomatoes
- bunch cilantro
- green peppers
- romaine lettuce
- butternut squash
Whole Shares
- ground cherries
- eggplant
- celery
- bok choy/baby bokchoy
- Collard greens
- campari tomatoes
- green onions
Fruit
- 6 sunrise apples (BC)
- 2lbs black plums (BC)
- 3 red grapefruit
- 3 nectarines (BC)
- 1.5lbs red grapes
Hope you can savour the summer and summery produce while it lasts!