Weekly Abundance, Vol 10-09

Weekly Harvest

Beets

Baby Chard

Tomatoes – Dry Farmed Early Girls, Taxis, and Silvery Fir Tree

Summer Squash and Zucchini

Lettuce Leaf Basil

Yellow Finn New Potatoes

Cipollini Onions

Lisbon White Bunching Onions

We also have Peaches, Apricots, and Nectarines available from our friends at Heirloom Orchards.  These are tree ripened fruit, ready for the eatin’!

Farm Life

We had a great time at the Picnic and Berry picking this weekend.  Folks went home with lots of berries, both in their tummies and in containers.  I particularly enjoyed giving a tour of the back of our property along Gordon Creek.   This area of the farm is very special to me.  It is wonderful to stand beside the irrigation pond and listen to the gurgle of water as it flows over the spill way.  It often spot wildlife as I stand there… Blue Herons, ducks, deer and the occasional Nutria.

This week you get to enjoy lots of tomatoes.  In addition to the dry farmed Early Girls you received last week, we are offering beautiful yellow Taxis and heirloom Silvery Fir Trees.  We also harvested the first of our Brandywines.  My taste testers tell me that the dry farmed Early Girls are the best, hands down.  What do you think?

This week we are also featuring the first of our potatoes.  These Yellow Finns have an unusual pear shape (large flattened oval), deep yellow-tan skin and waxy yellow flesh. The taste is naturally butter-like, and is good boiled, baked, fried or included in soups. This excellent keeper needs the lush, long season of the maritime Northwest to really perform. With even moisture, it will continue to yield until frost kills.  Normally considered a late season potato, we have harvested them early for you to enjoy as new potatoes.  We will offer them again later in the season at their full growth.