What’s in the box?

sweet corn
watermelon
cucumbers
bell peppers
basil
cauliflower
carrots
broccoli
zucchini
leeks
garlic
tomatoes

Notes on the box.

Tomatoes are finally starting to ripen! There will be more in the coming weeks.
The Watermelon are pretty okay this year. We were on track for a great melon year, but started to get a lot of rain which kind of waters down the flavor. But even watery-watermelons are pretty yummy.
Sweet Corn will come for a couple more weeks. The raccoons found the sweet corn patch and did some serious nomnomnoming out there. We will be putting an electric fence around the next plantings to try to keep them out.
Basil likes to not get wet or cold. I keep it in a vase on my counter.
Garlic! We harvested garlic recently. This garlic isn’t fully cured, but it will hold out of your fridge for a week or two. It’s extra good when it’s this fresh! Enjoy!

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Ricotta and Deneb, our gouda-style cheese. I’m imagining a really lovely pasta dish with the basil and tomatoes and cheese and garlic.

Recipes.

Ricotta, Sweet Corn, and Basil Lemon Pasta

Tomato Ricotta Tart

Roasted Broccoli

On the Farm.

August! Garlic and Onions have both been harvested and are curing in the barn. It’s pretty fragrant in there! Watermelon and corn are being eaten with gusto around here. The cool weather means no one is asking to go swimming every day and cooking is more enjoyable again. The cows love the cooler weather and are giving more milk now that they are more comfortable.

melon buffet in the field

ready!

all ears!

box packing

onions harvested

Sand Hill Cranes enjoying leftover sweetcorn from last week

Sadie on stickers

Otto helping?? at market

Next Week.

same!
plus onions
canteloupe
green beans?
more tomatoes

What’s in the box?

Sweet corn!
Broccoli
Carrots
bell pepper
cauliflower
green beans
celery
zucchini
cucumbers
sweet onion
parsley

Notes on the box.

Sweet Corn! The sooner you can eat it, the better it will taste. The sugars begin to convert to starches after its picked. You’ll be getting sweet corn for the next few weeks. If you find yourself with a sweet corn back up, you can cut the kernels off the cob and put them in a freezer bag for later use. For the first week, we generally eat as much sweet corn as possible by dropping it into boiling water for a few minutes and then putting salted butter on it. Yum!
Celery - if you are having a celery back-up you can cut it up and put it in a freezer bag to use in soups and other recipes later. We love celery in stir-fry with green beans.
Everything in the box this week is best stored in the fridge.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Feta and Circle of the Sun. If you want to keep the feta for longer than a week, you can make a brine to keep it in. 2 tsp salt dissolved in a cup of water. Making a pizza or flatbread with feta and zucchini is my favorite.
Circle of the Sun is my personal favorite cheese to make and to eat. You can grate it on top of a quiche or casserole, or jut snack on it.

Recipes.

Celery Sweet Corn Salad (recipe calls for dill, but parsley would be good, too)

Zucchini/ Summer Squash Pizza

Baked Falafel and Tzatiki (Cucumber Sauce)

On the Farm.

Next Week.

sweet corn
sweet onions
broccoli
green beans
peppers
cukes
zukes
tomatoes?
melons?

What’s in the box?

broccoli!
leeks
celery
carrots
zucchini
cucumbers
new potatoes
greenbeans
beets
green peppers

Notes on the box.

Imagine Billy Porter’s character, Pray Tell, on Pose saying “We are serving you French Summer Freshness!” New Potatoes, green beans, celery, carrots, leeks! Time for some lovely simple dishes that let the flavors of these fresh veggies do all the work.
New potatoes can be stored in a paper bag in a cool, dry place. They aren’t cured like storage potatoes, so you should eat them within a week or two. The skins are very thin and may rub off when washing them. Enjoy!
The green beans unfortunately had to be picked in the rain and may be muddy. You should give them a good rinse before preparing them. But they are so flavorful!
Remove tops of beets and carrots for best storage. Beet tops are edible and can be used as you would chard or cooked spinach.
If you are getting a celery pile-up, you can chop it up and put it in a freezer bag and put it in the freezer for use in soups and stir-fry later.
Broccoli finally popped this week! A lot of it all at once. We had expected it to be ready a few weeks ago, but it really took it’s sweet time (we will be adding a different variety next season to try to ensure we have some in earlier boxes in 2021). Worth the wait, though!

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Fresh cheese curds along with Arcturus which is our cheddar style cheese! So if we took the cheese curds and put them into forms and pressed them and aged them, we would end up with Arcturus. Except that the fresh curds are pasteurized and the aged cheese is raw milk. When making the cheddar on a small scale by hand, it’s difficult to get the curds to press together well, so there are some flaws near the rind of the cheese. This isn’t uncommon and the molds aren’t harmful. Some of them are even quite delicious! You can trim them away of you can give them a taste!

Recipes.

Buttery New Potatoes with Leeks and Parsley

Chocolate Cake with grated Beets and Zucchini - veggies for dessert!

Garlic Butter Smashed New Potatoes

On the farm.

Otto’s grandma got him a drone for christmas that we finally are trying out now.

Otto’s beet salad

Garlic harvest is in!

new potato time

yum!

long lines of leeks

Mattie green bean hunting

wintersquash looking good.

Next week.

sweet corn!