Week 10 Archive

Dear Member,

A week of beautiful, sunny and warm weather has brightened our spirits and also the tomatoes. The tomatoes are at their peak now and are flavorful and delicious. We are working our way through the summer vegetables and so there are still the faithful summer squash, tomatoes, eggplant and peppers. I think that members start to yearn for the fall vegetables, but there will be many weeks of kale and carrots to come with the warm vegetables of summer only a memory. Savor them now.

We are planning our last farm visit day of 2008 to be held on Saturday September 13th from 11-4. We will have fall crops to help harvest, a maple syrup display and demonstration, a bee keeping display. Please bring your own picnic lunch and drinks. There will be room in the barn to sit, or if you prefer, bring a blanket to sit on the grass. We will also have our honey and Bearkill Maple syrup for sale that day. I would like you to e-mail me to let me know if you will be attending and a contact number. Please send the e-mail to: info@stoneledgefarmny.org . The farm visit is a nice day to just enjoy being on the farm, the fresh air, visiting with the farmers and also other CSA members.

Vegetable Share

Summer Squash-2 pounds

Orient Express Eggplant-2

Walla Walla Onions-2

Edamame-1 bunch-the beans are much larger this week and look perfect

Peppers-3 each-this is a mix of peppers, all sweet varieties.

Chiogga Beets-1 bunch. These beets are an Italian heirloom favorite. Cut open you will see stripes of red and white. These beets are a rustic type and we have no control over their growth. Some will grow enormous, other stay quite small, some will have crazy long roots, others get knobby. It is all part of their charm. The seed catalog also writes, “Also know as Bassano, for the Venetian hill town in which it originated. Has been cultivated in the States since the 1840’s.”

Tomatoes-3 pounds

Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes-1 basket

Summer Spinach-1 bunch

Sage-1 bunch

Fruit Share

Red Clapp Pears, Peaches, Shiro Plums