IMPORTANT CSA NOTICE REGARDING FRUIT SHARES!
FRUIT SHARES BEGIN THIS WEEK! FRUIT SHARES ARE NOT PART OF THE VEGETABLE SHARE PROGRAM. THEY ARE A SEPARATE SHARE. ONLY TAKE A BAG OF FRUIT IF IT SAYS “FRUIT” NEXT TO YOUR NAME. IF YOU TAKE FRUIT AND YOU HAVE NOT PAID FOR IT, YOU ARE TAKING ANOTHER MEMBER’S FRUIT SHARE. Important! If you send someone else to pick up your share, please be sure to let them know about the fruit shares and ask them to double check the list to see if you are entitled to the fruit. Thank you for your attention to this!
JuLY 30, 31 & Aug 1
Wow, it’s been a hot few weeks! Harvesting in this heat is really rough on our crew and the veggies. We try to harvest early in the morning and get everything into the packing barn and into our walk-in coolers in less than an hour. Last night our phone alarms went off because the cooler decided to malfunction. Matt was up well into the early morning hours troubleshooting the compressor - and all is well - but it’s just another reminder of how much we depend on everything working perfectly to get our food from the field to your table in good shape!
Please help us out by picking up your veggies as early as possible, and getting them straight into refrigeration! Our trucks are refrigerated, but the longer the shares site out at the sites, the more opportunity there is for
Have a beautiful week, friends!
-Maggie & Matt
IN THE BOX…
Red Batavian Lettuce
Storage: In an air-tight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Salad with pecorino & homemade garlic croutons
Sweetheart Cabbage or Green Cabbage
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Creamy Coleslaw
Cipollini Onions
These are a sweet Italian variety of onion. Best cooked, and braising them as the star of the dish is my favorite!
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge. Remove the tops for best storage.
What I'm making: Balsamic Glazed Onions
Arugula
This baby arugula is super tender! If yours suffered from the heat and is not in good condition when you receive it, please let us know! Just sitting in your box too long at the site can damage the tender leaves. On a similar note, wash and eat it right away! If you put dressing on it, you will need to eat it within 5 minutes — no joke!
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Simple arugula salad.
Parsley
The perfect herb for hot weather! This brings a great fresh kick to grain and bean summer salads!
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Tabbouleh Salad
Golden OR Red Beets
We grow several varieties of beets and we’ll harvest and distribute them as they come in. If you get red this week, look for golden ones on another week!
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge. Store the greens separately. If yours do not have greens attached, it just means that they had too much heat damage and we removed them because they were ugly. Summer is not kind to the tops of roots. You’ll see them attached again once the weather cools.
What I'm making: Beets & Quinoa Salad
Toscano Kale
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Summer BBQ Chopped Kale Salad
Cucumbers
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Tzatziki
Summer Squash
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Summer Squash
Zucchini
Storage: In an airtight bag in the fridge.
What I'm making: Stanley Tucci’s Spaghetti & Zucchini
FRUIT SHARES - Fruit Members Only
(Non-organic/Ecologically-grown) from Champlain Orchards
Garnet Beauty Peaches OR Silver Gem Nectarines
HOW TO RIPEN: Remove the fruit from the paper tote and put them out on the counter so that the fruit does not touch. They will ripen on their own in a day or two. To speed it up you can try to store the peaches/nectarines next to other ethylene-emitting fruit, like a banana.
**The fruit is packaged in paper tote bags inside a cardboard box at the site. If you are not a fruit share member, do not touch the totes!**
Since it's the first week, the orchard had to send us a mixed order. You may get peaches, you may get nectarines. It's going to be a surprise! But please remove them from the tote and ripen them on the counter not touching! They should soften in 2-4 days.
IF IT DOES NOT SAY "FRUIT" NEXT TO YOUR NAME ON THE CHECK-IN SHEET, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT TAKE A FRUIT TOTE. We only send the exact number of orders to each site. We know that the fruit is tempting and delicious and you can still sign up if you haven't already! info@goldenearthworm.com
If someone else is picking up your share for you, be sure to instruct them on the pick-up protocols. Last year we had a "substitute" pick-up person take an entire box of fruit! It's one tote bag per fruit share membership.
THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!
OUR QUALITY GUARANTEE
If you ever receive an item that is damaged, please let us know right away and we will happily replace it for you.
info@goldenearthworm.com
