What's in the Box - October 25, 26 & 27

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Sweet Potatoes - several pieces **Remove the sweet potatoes from the bags as soon as you get home!**
Broccoli Raab -OR- Spinach - 1 bunch
Escarole -OR- Kohlrabi -OR- Guy Lon (Chinese Broccoli) - 1 bunch
Baby White Salad Turnips - .5 lb bag/1piece
Collards - 1 bunch
Broccoli - 1-2 pieces

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Bag Mutsu (Green) Apples
1 Bag Fuji (Red) Apples or 1 Bag Cameo (Red) Apples

QUEENS HERB SHARE

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notes on the share

We have a special box filled with a whole family of broccoli greens this week.  Broccoli Raab and Guy Lon (Chinese Broccoli) must be picked within a 1-2 day window before the heads go to flower, so we will be harvesting the multiple plantings intensively over the next few weeks.  If you don't receive it in your box this week, it will be coming soon!  The stems on these are the best part, so just separate the leaves and the stem, chop into 1-2" pieces and either stir-fry, or steam and toss with fresh garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and salt & pepper. 

News from the Farm

Potato harvesting continues this week as we try to get everything dug out of the ground by the end of the month.  We will be planting garlic soon, and prepping our greenhouses for in-ground growing for the winter.  This is the time of year when we try to tie up as many loose ends as possible.  The weather is getting cooler, but it's still comfortable working outside in the warm autumn sun.  Here are some photos of the fields as they stand right now.  You can see rutabaga, kale and watermelon radish growing, as well as our flaming willow wind break turning a beautiful "flaming" red!

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We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Please note that you can substitue Guy Lon for any of the Broccoli Raab Recipes you find.

Broccoli Raab with Pasta
Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes

What's in the Box - October 18, 19 & 20

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Head Lettuce OR Sweet Potatoes - 1 head/several pieces
Arugula - .4 lb bag
Lettuce Mix or Head Lettuce - .5 lb bag/1piece
Red Russian Kale - 1 bunch
Yellow Potatoes - 3 lb bag
Broccoli - 1-2 pieces

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Bag Mixed Apples  - Cameo & Fuji
1 Bag Bosc Pears

QUEENS HERB SHARE

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notes on the share

Broccoli is gorgeous this year!  Steam lightly -- aldente broccoli is fabulous-- mushy broccoli, not so much.  The Red Russian kale in this week's share is extremely tender.  I would recommend eating it raw in the salad recipe (see below).  I just devoured an entire salad bowl full myself for lunch today! 

News from the Farm

We've been harvesting more potatoes and cleaning up the fields in preparation for cover crop seeding. Our fall greens and roots are growing wonderfully.  I think we might just have a wonderful end to a not-so-great growing season, but I don't want to speak too soon! 

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Harvest Festival on Sunday.  The weather was glorious and it was great to see many of you! 

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We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Raw Tuscan Kale Salad
Spicy Garlicky Broccoli Salad

What's in the Box - October 11, 12 & 13

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

White Salad Turnips - 1 bunch
Arugula - 1/2 lb bag
Carrots - 1 bunch
Toscano/Green/Red Kale - 1 bunch
Broccoli OR Green Beans OR Head Lettuce - 1 piece/bag

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Bag Mixed Apples  - Empire & Cortland
1 Bag Bosc Pears

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Lemon Thyme
Sage

notes on the share

We've just started harvesting our broccoli crop, so we'll be equally distributing it to all of our groups over the next few weeks.  If you don't get it this week, it's coming soon!  Our carrots are super sweet right now, and kale is back!  Maybe it's too warm this week to put the kale in your soup?  Try kale chips (recipe below) or steamed and tossed with garlic and parmesan on pasta. 

News from the Farm

The warm weather is keeping our crops happy (and growing fast!) and it's a welcome change from all the rain!  More rain is forecasted for later in the week, so we're quickly finishing up the sweet potato harvest.  Once the sweet potatoes are cured you'll be getting lots in your weekly share.  Yum! 

On a sad note, the excessive rain caused the last of our winter squash to rot in the fields.  I'm especially sad since it's my favorite... 

THIS WEEKEND!!!!!  CSA HARVEST FESTIVAL -- Sunday, October 16^th 2011, from 11am-3pm

This is a private event open to all current CSA Members only.  Please bring your own picnic lunch, lawn chairs or a blanket and sturdy walking shoes for touring the farm. 

Highlights of the Festival
Hayride Tours
Walking Tours
Cooking Demonstrations
Animal Shearing
Kids Haystack Game
Live Music
Storytelling for Kids
Farmstand Open (Produce & Organic Baked Goods for sale!)
Q&A with Farmers 

No RSVP Necessary.  *Light* Rain or Shine (heavy rain will cancel).  We hope to see you there! 

Explore our Website
We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Kale Chips
Salad Turnips with Miso

What's in the Box - October 4, 5 & 6

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Golden Beets - 1 bunch
Baby Bok Choi - 1 bunch
Lettuce Mix - 1 bag
Green Cabbage - 1 piece
Sweet Potatoes - 2lb.
Yellow Onions - 2-3 pieces

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Bag Mixed Apples  - Mac & Red Delicious
1 Bag Bosc Pears

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Cilantro
Parsley

notes on the share

A beautiful new harvest of lettuce mix is coming in!  It's bagged, but unwashwed (it keeps longer this way), so be sure to wash before you make your salad.  The baby bok choi is *super* baby-- which means that its flavor is particularly sweet and texture very tender.  It doesn't need to be cooked for very long!

News from the Farm

It's October and it's still raining!!!!!  When will it ever stop?  Later this week?!

We're preparing for our large harvest of sweet potatoes.  Right now we're harvesting by hand with shovels (because it's too wet to bring our machinery out into the fields!).  Typically we harvest the sweet potatoes by flipping the hills upside down with two giant discs on the back of the tractors.  Then, we walk the fields and pick up the potatoes by hand.  After the harvest they are put in a curing room, where the temperature is kept at 85F degrees and high humidity for a week to 10 days, to seal the skins and prepare them for storage. 

Hopefully by the end of this week it will be dry enough to get out into the fields with the tractors to continue to plant our cover crop seed.  We're planting oats, rye and hairy vetch into the fields where the crops have already been harvested, to prevent erosion over the winter and provide nutrition to the soil. 

Another task for this month is to re-build the roads around the farm that have succumb to erosion from this season's persistant and heavy rains. 

Despite all the bad weather, we're looking forward to celebrating the harvest with you in a few weeks, so we hope you will join us for our annual CSA Harvest Festival on Sunday, October 16th! 

CSA HARVEST FESTIVAL -- Sunday, October 16^th 2011, from 11am-3pm

This is a private event open to all current CSA Members only.  Please bring your own picnic lunch, lawn chairs or a blanket and sturdy walking shoes for touring the farm. 

Highlights of the Festival
Hayride Tours
Walking Tours
Cooking Demonstrations
Animal Shearing
Kids Haystack Game
Live Music
Storytelling for Kids
Farmstand Open (Produce & Organic Baked Goods for sale!)
Q&A with Farmers 

No RSVP Necessary.  *Light* Rain or Shine (heavy rain will cancel).  We hope to see you there! 

Explore our Website
We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Braised Cabbage with Caraway
Braised Baby Bok Choi

What's in the Box - September 27, 28 & 29

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Baby Arugula - 1 bag
Yukon Gold -OR- Red Flesh Potatoes - 1 bag
Green or Red Batavian Lettuce - 1 head
Celery Root (Celeriac) - 2 pieces
Garlic - 2-4 pieces depending on size
Cranberry Beans -OR- Green Beans - 1 bag (cranberry beans-- only the inside are edible - discard the pods)

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Bag Mixed Apples  - Gala, Yellow Delicious & Mac Varieties

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Parsley
Basil

notes on the share

Celeriac and cranberry beans highlight this week's share - items you most likely won't find at your local supermarket.  Celeriac, or celery root, is one of the ugliest crops we grow, but it has a beautiful, intense celery flavor that is perfect in soups and gratins.  You must remove the skin by cutting it off with a sharp knife.  Inside you'll find hard flesh similar to that of a potato.  The cranberry beans must be shelled first (the pod can then be discarded).  I like to boil them in a good amount of water for about 25-30 minutes and then throw them in a salad with arugula and shaved parmesan. They are also delicious in soups!

Here's what some food bloggers and NPR are saying about cranberry beans and celeriac:

http://www.amateurgourmet.com/2008/09/cranberry_beans.html
http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/04/gulping-beanfuls/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6551175

News from the Farm

We have a lot of beautiful crops coming in this fall.  Drumroll....Here is what you can look forward to over the next 8 weeks of the seaseon:  Lettuce Mix, Arugula, Spinach, Baby Turnips, Baby Bok Choi, Broccoli Raab, Golden Beets, Carrots, Kohlrabi, Green Kale, Toscano Kale, Broccoli, Cabbage, Lettuce, Sweet Potatoes, Leeks, Russet (baking) Potatoes, Collards, Chinese Broccoli, Rutabaga, Watermelon Radish and Daikon Radish.  There may even be a few other crops I've forgotten.  We're looking forward to an excellent fall harvest! Click on the thumbnail images below to see these crops in the fields...

Join us for our annual CSA Harvest Festival on Sunday, October 16th! 

CSA HARVEST FESTIVAL -- Sunday, October 16^th 2011, from 11am-3pm

This is a private event open to all current CSA Members only.  Please bring your own picnic lunch, lawn chairs or a blanket and sturdy walking shoes for touring the farm. 

Highlights of the Festival
Hayride Tours
Walking Tours
Cooking Demonstrations
Animal Shearing
Kids Haystack Game
Live Music
Storytelling for Kids
Farmstand Open (Produce & Organic Baked Goods for sale!)
Q&A with Farmers 

No RSVP Necessary.  *Light* Rain or Shine (heavy rain will cancel).  We hope to see you there! 

Explore our Website
We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Mashed Celeriac
Celeriac & Beet Salad
Cranberry Bean & Arugula Salad

What's in the Box - September 20, 21 & 22

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Scallions - 1 bunch
Green Batavian Lettuce - 1 head
Shallots - 1 small bag
Red Beets & Greens - 1 bunch
Red Batavian Lettuce - 1 piece
Acorn OR Butternut Winter Squash - 1-2 pieces depending on size
Green Beans - 1 bag

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Bag Bosc Pears - A Note on Ripening from Farmer Clark: "They should ripen a little more by letting them turn a golden brown and a little softer."

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Winter Savory
Chives

notes on the share

We have a limited size share this week, but you'll notice that we're moving straight into fall with cooler weather crops such as winter squash and head lettuce. We will be harvesting more root crops in the coming weeks, as well as more potatoes and hopefully some nice fall greens by early to mid-October.  Everything has been delayed this season because of the wet summer, but we should get back in the fall crop groove in another few weeks. 

News from the Farm

Join us for our annual CSA Harvest Festival on Sunday, October 16th! 

CSA HARVEST FESTIVAL -- Sunday, October 16^th 2011, from 11am-3pm

This is a private event open to all current CSA Members only.  Please bring your own picnic lunch, lawn chairs or a blanket and sturdy walking shoes for touring the farm. 

Highlights of the Festival
Hayride Tours
Walking Tours
Cooking Demonstrations
Animal Shearing
Kids Haystack Game
Live Music
Storytelling for Kids
Farmstand Open (Produce & Organic Baked Goods for sale!)
Q&A with Farmers 

No RSVP Necessary.  *Light* Rain or Shine (heavy rain will cancel).  We hope to see you there! 

Explore our Website
We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Grilled Scallions with Lemon
Roasted Winter Squash Risotto

What's in the Box - September 13, 14 & 15

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Carrots - 1 bunch
Scallions - 1 bunch
Fennel - 1 bunch
Garlic Chives - 1 bunch
Red Onions - 1 quart
Yukon Gold Potatoes - 1 quart
Green Beans - 1 bag

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Mixed Bag of Golden Delicious & Gala Apples

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Orange Mint
Thyme

notes on the share

Both the onions and potatoes will last for a few weeks (or even months under the proper conditions) so keep them stored in a cool, dry, and dark place.  The green bean crop is beautiful this year, so enjoy a full 3/4 lb share this week!  If you can't eat them all now, you can blanch them (drop them in boiling water for a few seconds) and freeze them in ziplock bags. 

Garlic chives are delicious chopped finely into scrambled eggs, and I love making salad with chopped scallions, dried cherries and toasted almonds this time of year! 

News from the Farm

We're busy seeding the last of our fall crops and harvesting winter squash and potatoes.  We'll be back next week with more news from the farm...

Explore our Website
We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Fennel Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans with Lemon & Pine Nuts

What's in the Box - September 6, 7 & 8

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Sungold Cherry Tomatoes - 1 pint
Red Beets & Greens! - 1 bunch
Baby Leeks -OR- Scallions - 1 bunch
Cilantro - 1 bunch
Red Tomatoes** - several pieces
Green Beans - 1 bag
Corn -OR- Acorn Squash - 5 pieces/1 piece

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

1 Mixed Bag of Yellow Peaches and Bartlett Pears

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Thyme
Chives

notes on the share

Despite last week's hurricane, we have managed to pull together a relatively diverse share for everyone this week!  We hope to distribute corn to everyone at least one time.  Some of you received it last week, some this week, and hopefully the rest of you will get it next week.  You'll notice that there are worms in the ears.  This is normal for organic corn!  (Conventional corn is heavily sprayed with toxic insecticides to keep the corn silk worm out.)  Just cut off the tip of the ear where the worm is and the rest is perfectly fine to eat!

Don't forget to eat the tops of the beets!  You can cook the beet greens just like spinach-- either sauteed or gently steamed.  They're delicious!

This week we're harvesting the new planting of green beans, so there is a small amount in the share this week and more to come over the next few weeks. 

This is the last week of cherry tomatoes and probably the next to last week of red tomatoes.  The cherry tomato plants were destroyed in the hurricane, so they're finished. The red tomatoes had been severely weakened by late blight despite our constant monitoring and preventative spray regemin.  The hurricane finished off the second planting which was not looking good before the storm, so we're just finishing up harvesting from the first planting and then we'll be done.  Last year was a stellar year for tomatoes and this year was just ok.  It's all part of the ups and downs of farming.

**The red tomatoes need to ripen for a few days on the counter until they reach a uniform, deep red.  Please be sure to wash the tomatoes before eating. We have been spraying them with an organically-approved copper spray to protect against late blight infection.  The copper spray will wash off with a little soap and water. 

News from the Farm

The farm fared relatively well from Hurricane Irene.  We lost the rest of our diseased peppers, eggplants and some of the diseased tomatoes, but all in all, we were extremely lucky.  Many of our farming friends upstate NY had entire fields flooded and have lost all of their crops.  You can find out more about the farmers who were affected by the storm here.

Looking forward, we expect to start harvesting more root vegetables, like carrots and beets, some winter squash (it's not a great planting this year, but we'll have some...), and fall greens in about 6 weeks.  The greens were planted late while we waited for the hurricane to pass, so we won't have them until mid-October.  Until then, we've seeded some faster growing arugula and lettuce mix to round out the leafy greens in the share.  Also don't forget to eat the tops of the beets!  They are better than spinach (in my opinion) and they can be cooked the same way! 

Sweet Potatoes are looking fantastic, as are our cabbage and broccoli transplants.  We'll be updating you more regularly through the fall, so stay tuned for more farm news!

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We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

RECIPES

Roasted Beet Salad with Oranges & Beet Greens
Maple Glazed Acorn Squash

What's in the Box - September 1 (Aug. 30 & 31st cancelled this week due to hurricane.)

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Sungold Cherry Tomatoes - 1 pint
Basil - 1 bunch
Long Green or Bell Pepper - 1 piece
Baby Leeks - 1 bunch
Cucumbers - 2 pieces
Red Tomatoes** - 5 pieces
Baby Arugula - 1 bag
Zucchini - 3pieces
Surprise Item!

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

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QUEENS HERB SHARE

Lemon Thyme
Cilantro

notes on the share

**The red tomatoes need to ripen for a few days on the counter until they reach a uniform, deep red.  Please be sure to wash the tomatoes before eating. We have been spraying them with an organically-approved copper spray to protect against late blight infection.  The copper spray will wash off with a little soap and water. 

News from the Farm

The farm fared relatively well from Hurricane Irene.  We will provide a full update on the state of the crops in next week's newsletter. 

Explore our Website
We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

What's in the Box - August 23, 24 & 25

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Sungold Cherry Tomatoes - 1 pint
Garlic Chives - 1 bunch - Delicious chopped finely in scrambled eggs!
Long Green Peppers - 1 piece
Green Bell Pepper - 1 piece
Cantaloupe Melon - 1 piece
Baby Watermelon - 1 piece
Shallots - 1.25 lb
Red Tomatoes** - several pieces
Nicola Potatoes - 1 quart
Baby Arugula -OR- Baby Carrots - 1 bag
Green Beans - 1 bag -OR- Zucchini - 2 pieces

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

Yellow Peaches - 1 bag
Bartlett Pears - 1 bag

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Pineapple Sage*
Thyme

*A posting on Chowhound recommends the following uses: -- flavors a basic vanilla ice cream recipe nicely -- chopped into mango salsa -- combine with mint, olive oil and rice vinegar and make an interesting salad dressing -- chopped with a bit of fresh garlic and rubbed onto chicken breasts for grill -- frozen into cubes with cranberry juice

notes on the share

This week marks the half way point of the CSA season and we have a spectacular harvest to celebrate!  As we've mentioned before, our summer crops were delayed a few weeks, so they're all coming in now.  This will probably be the last week of peppers -- so cut them up and freeze them if you need them for recipes this fall.  Our pepper plants are dying of a root disease caused by excessively wet conditions. 

Shallots!  Shallots are not onions, but they are part of the Allium species.  They have a mildly sweet onion flavor that some say also has hints of garlic.  I like to use shallots in dressings and in place of onions in delicately flavored dishes. 

**The red tomatoes need to ripen for a few days on the counter until they reach a uniform, deep red.  Please be sure to wash the tomatoes before eating. We have been spraying them with an organically-approved copper spray to protect against late blight infection.  The copper spray will wash off with a little soap and water. 

News from the Farm

The tomatoes are finally coming in well, but it has been a lot of work to get them to this point!  Late blight was detected on tomato and potato crops here in Suffolk County and we've had to be diligent about our organic spray regemin to prevent it from taking hold.  Some of you may remember back to 2009 when pretty much all of the organic farms in the Northeast lost their tomato crop.  We managed to save many of ours back then, and this year we were on top of it right away to ensure a good harvest.  That said, the plants are definitely weaker than they are in a healthy year, so we're harvesting as much as we can, while we can!

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We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE SUGGESTIONS

Richard's Summer Salsa
Shallot Vinaigrette Dressing - delicious over a tomato salad!

More recipes for all the week's produce can be found here on our RECIPES page. 

What's in the Box - August 16, 17 & 18

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Sungold Cherry Tomatoes - 1/2 lb.
Long Green Peppers - 2 pieces
Green Bell Pepper - 2 pieces
Eggplant - 1 piece
Baby Watermelon - 1 piece
Green Beans - 1 bag
Walla Walla or Red Onions - 1 quart
Red Tomatoes - 2 pieces

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

Yellow Peaches - 1 bag
White Peaches - these are extremely delicate-- so be careful handling them! - 1 bag

QUEENS HERB SHARE

coming soon...

notes on the share

What a lovely summer selection of produce we have this week!  Green beans, red tomatoes, baby watermelon.  The summer crops have been a bit behind schedule due to the cold and rainy start to the season, but they're coming in now, so enjoy! 

The red tomatoes need to ripen for a few days on the counter until they reach a uniform, deep red.  Please be sure to wash the tomatoes before eating. We have been spraying them with an organically-approved copper spray to protect against late blight infection.  The copper spray will wash off with a little soap and water. 

News from the Farm

We are thankful for all of the rain!  It allowed us a few days to slow down (just a bit) and gave the plants a much needed drink.  We are thrilled to report that none of our fields flooded -- meaning that we are doing a good job of keep the soil porous and non-compacted.  We have a new tool that we're using this season to help loosen the soil several feet under the ground!  Most tools can loosen the soil down several inches, but the deeper you can get the better.  It takes a powerful tractor and a powerful tool to do this work and this is the first year we've been set up to use it. 

Explore our Website
We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE SUGGESTIONS

Green Beans Braised with Tomatoes & Basil
Fresh, No-Cook, Tomato Sauce

More recipes for all the week's produce can be found here on our RECIPES page. 

What's in the Box - August 9, 10 & 11

VEGETABLE SHARE

The contents of the box may change this week.  Please check back daily for an updated list. You can click on a crop below for recipes and storage information. 

Nicola Potatoes - 3lb bag - These are a beautiful yellow-fleshed variety-- Farmer Matt's favorite!
Sungold Cherry Tomatoes - 1/2 lb.
Long Green Peppers - 2 pieces
Bell Pepper - 2 pieces
Swiss Chard - 1 bunch
Parsley - 1 bunch
Asian Eggplant - 2 pieces
Lettuce - 2 baby heads

FRUIT SHARE

The listing for the fruit share is for our Long Island sites ONLY.  Please contact your core group if you belong to a Queens pick-up site for your updated weekly share. 

Mixed Nectarines & Yellow Peaches - 1 bag
Mixed Donut (UFO) Peaches & White Peaches - 1 bag

QUEENS HERB SHARE

Basil
Thyme

notes on the share

The tomatoes are finally coming in -- a bit later than usual, but better late than never!  This week we have cherry tomatoes and we hope to have some big red beefsteaks to give out in the share by next week.  Our watermelons and cantaloupes are ripening quickly in this heat, so those should be making an appearance in the share next week as well.  Some of you have asked about cucumbers...  Well, we lost the first few plantings due to poor germination & wet weather that kept us from getting them into the fields on time back in June, but our final planting looks good and should be ready to harvest in about 3 weeks.  The potatoes in the share this week are called Nicola, and are one of our favorites!  They have a beautiful yellow color, lovely textured flesh and delicious flavor!

News from the Farm

This week is our big push to seed all of our root crops for the fall and winter.  We're seeding acres of carrots, beets, and other cold weather crops that we'll be able to harvest from October onwards.  It looks like we have a good stretch of clear weather for the next few days to get everything done.  Farmer Matt has been heading back to the farm every night after dinner for the past few weeks to prepare the fields and make beds for this seeding.  There just aren't enough hours in the day(light) to get everything done, so it's a good thing that our tractors have headlights on them for nighttime tractor work!

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We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our farm and the wonderful things you can do with your weekly share. Check out our CROP GUIDE to find tips on maximizing the life of your veggies, and our RECIPE section to search for ways to cook up your box!

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE SUGGESTIONS
Baked Cherry Tomatoes with Parmesan
Potato Salad with Green Beans & Salsa Verde --great without the beans too!

More recipes for all the week's produce can be found here on our RECIPES page.