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on Jul 19 in CSA News, Farm News, Uncategorized by JosieJuly brings a new energy to the farm, with the heat we see baby melons, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes show up on the vines. These warm nights help these crop ripen up and all of us wait with anticipation of their bounty.
This week in your pick up you will see; chard, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, basil, onions and kohlrabi. Kohlrabi? This is an ancient vegetable in fact it could be one of the oldest cultivated vegetables. You eat the big round part. Peel the kohlrabi and then slic it up. I eat mine raw in a salad or just as a sside with a little salt and pepper. It tastes like a hicama. Have fun with it.
Cooking Classes at the market
Abby the farm chef is having cooking classes every week at the down town market. She is taking the strange veggies and showing how to use them. If you are having questions about some of the veggies you should come check out Abby’s “Chef at the Market” booth. The 30th of July she will be cooking cardoons. And you will see them is your CSA box the next week. Free cooking classes!!! Cant beat that.
No CSA the WEEK of August 8th
Clay and I are going for a week vacation the week of August 8th. We will not have a CSA pick up that week. We are going to Glacier National Park with Clay’s whole family. We have not had a summer vacation since we started Peaceful Belly, nine years ago. Clay and his brother were both born while his parents were stationed as rangers in Glacier Park. We thought that we better have a reunion as a whole family there. CSA pick up will resume the next week and continue through the end of September. The CSA is 17 weeks long with the Harvest Festival on October 9th being the 18th pick up of squash and fall veggies. So please put that on your calendar.
