Oh, hey! This tiny little frog surprised me in the chard one day last week.
Hi all, Alli here.
The winter squash harvest has started! This Red Kuri variety was the first one to be ready, and it’s currently curing in our greenhouse so it’ll be ready for you later on in the season.
I even had a brief chance to sneak away from the farm this weekend and attend a fabulous wedding in Ohio for some of my college friends. It’s trips like these that sometimes serve to remind me what an interesting little bubble the Hudson Valley is, especially in terms of the food and farm culture here. Quite a few of the people I talked to were shocked to meet someone who was a farmer, and they were extremely curious to find out more about organic farming, what we grew, and where we sold it, most of them hearing about a CSA for the first time. Here in the Hudson Valley, there are so many different kinds of farmers, so many different CSA farms, and so many fabulous market customers and CSA members. This means it is sometimes easy to forget that, in many places, there is neither demand for nor access to a diversity of fresh, organic, or locally grown foods. I was in rural Ohio, and I drove past plenty of farmland, but it was just countless huge, flat fields of corn and soybeans. Alison and I often think about how lucky we are to have the opportunity to live here in Gardiner and grow this type of food for so many people who really appreciate it, and it’s great to have that reaffirmed sometimes. So thank you all, truly, for demanding good, clean food and for supporting the farms and farmers who grow it.
One of our favorite times on the farm.
That being said, here are the veggies we have for you this week!
Okra (which seems to be enjoying this heat quite a bit…we are growing a different variety this year, and its productivity is out of control! We’re getting far more than we could have expected from the same amount of plants. So for those of you who just aren’t okra lovers, please be sure to place your quantity in the swap basket for those who are!)
…and likely some other surprises, too!
But of course it’s probably no surprise by now that I want to share some recipes from my favorite food blog with you! These look yummmmmy, and even though they have more ingredients/are slightly more work than the recipes I usually like to post, I’m sure you won’t regret making either of them!
For your bok choy:
We were testing out this beautiful ‘red’ variety of bok choy this time around, so there might be just a few lucky ones to choose from in the bin!
For your tomatoes:
These Long Island Cheese Pumpkins are huge and should be ready for harvest within a few weeks!
A sea of huge broccoli plants that we’re still hoping will actually give us broccoli this year! It’s sometimes strange to me how many of the vegetables that are the most difficult to grow have become some of the most common, staple vegetables. Come onnnn, broccoli, you can do it!
And, of course, some more flowers to send you on your way! 🙂
