Weekly Harvest

Fennel

This Week’s Harvest

Sugar Snap Peas – Sweet green peas with an edible pod.  So good they don’t need cooking.

Chard – Colorful Rainbow Chard.  Great in a stir fry.

Fennel -  Also known as “Anise”, fennel goes particularly well with salmon.

Lettuce – Simpson Black Seeded Lettuce.  A beautiful curly, light green, loose leaf lettuce.

Kohlrabi – See “Veggie of the Week” below for kohlrabi ideas.

Scallions – Chop them in with your lettuce for a great salad.  Also great in omelets.

Mizuna – Available for CSA shareholders only.

Pok Choi – Available for CSA shareholders only.

Mt. Hood Strawberries – Available at the Farm Stand only.

Farm Life

The remaining meat chickens were taken to the butcher’s yesterday.  They returned today all cleaned up and dressed in neat little packages.  The whole birds are in bags and the cut birds are on Styrofoam trays.  If you have reserved birds, they will be ready and waiting for you at the site you designated when you reserved the birds.

If you have not yet made a reservation but would like some chicken, please let me know via e-mail, Florence@ArtisanOrganics.net.  The birds are $3.75/lb.  There is an additional $1.50 charge for cut birds.

In your e-mail please let me know where you would like to pick up your chicken; the Beaverton Farmers Market on Saturdays, at the farm on Wed. afternoons, or at your CSA pick up site on Thursday.  I also need to know how many birds you want, whether you want them whole or cut up, and an approximate size (small, medium, or large).

The next batch of birds will not be ready until early July so be sure you order enough chicken to get you through until then.

In the last week, we have also been working on the refrigeration unit for the walk in cooler.  We completed installing it on Sunday and it worked great… until today.  It looks like some of the parts have malfunctioned and need to be returned.  Hopefully, we can get that done in the morning.

Meanwhile, I have been grateful for the little bit of rain we had the last few days.  Some of the critical parts for the irrigation system are on back order, which means the plants in the back field are not getting watered.  Every time I get anxious about it, I remind myself that these plants have been in the ground for some time now and have a well developed root system.  I checked on them this morning and was reassured to see that they are indeed fine.  Still, I will be glad when the parts arrive and we can get the irrigation system up and running.

Veggie of the Week

Kohlrabi

Our featured vegetable this week is kohlrabi.  Kohlrabi is a relative of broccoli.  Just peel and eat.  It is great raw as a snack, or in salads.  If you prefer, you may also cook it the same way you enjoy broccoli.  Or, try it on the grill.  Just peel, cut in to strips, coat with a little light oil to keep it from sticking, and put it on the grill.  Enjoy!