July 24, 2008 Wet Wet Wet!!
Hello folks…
Reminder of the LOCALVORE MARKET at Jubilee Farm in Huntington Center for the next four Thursdays. Come buy from your neighbors who raise, grow or make local food and plants. 4-7pm. Important: Huntington CSA pickup folks, this is your pick up location NOT our farm for 4 weeks. We will have meat for sale and I might bring our grill for hamburgers!
ON THE FARM:The animals are doing well. We just got our 125 turkey chicks and they are doing nicely. These will be organic pastured birds for Thanksgiving. If you would like to place an order for one, let us know. Good news, our pullets layer hens are slowly starting to lay their eggs, Ben found four today! On the egg front, we are collecting about 100 a day now so we are proud to be able to provide Beaudrys and the Green Grocer again with our delicious pastured organic eggs. (Also found at farmers markets and our CSA pickups).
We moved the lamb flock back into the field with the ewes who should be all dried off now. Thats a relief to only move one group of sheep each day instead of two. They are settling in fine though some of the large lambs still think nursing would be great and are trying to find some milk.
IN THE GARDEN: We had the crew out on Tuesday do a huge number on the weeds and the garden looks great! We had weekwackers, mantis tiller, “Troy” the tiller, hand weeders galore and it really helped get a handle on the wet weather weeds for sure. Thanks gang! Peas are gone now for the season but the beans are looking fabulous. We did a huge preharvest on Wednesday in anticipation of the huge rains on Thursday. I just hope we dont have too much standing water in the garden by the end of tomorrows expected rains.
THIS WEEKS HARVEST: MMM…more maple syrup! enjoy! Wet weather makes for large vegetables! You’ll notice some larger than normal cucumbers and some of the summer squash are large too. Still delicious though! Our harvest also includes beets, mesculin, cauliflour, broccoli, french beans, kale and flowers. I promise, soon we’ll have carrots and potatoes. Next week: Red cabbage.
IN THE KITCHEN: A few ideas… Id like to hear what you are doing with the harvest. Email me at beth@otloose.com and I’ll publish your ideas.
Try a nice cool summer salad of cucumbers and tomatoes or blend up a cucumber with dill and yogurt for a nice dressing on your green salad.
Zucchini: try a stuffed baked squash with sausage, and cut up veggies and parmesean cheese.
Beets are great grated on your summer salad raw or boil them untill you can stick a fork in them. Make sure to cut the tops 1″ from the beet and then after they are boiled, you can just peel the skin right off and slice and eat. My kids love them!
Kale is nice steamed into scrambled eggs in the morning. One of the best sources of vit. A!
As always, enjoy the harvest and eat well.
Beth
