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It is hard  to believe it is week 10. 1/2 way through the season AND!!!! August already.  The days zip by with busy activities.  The garden is in high production mode and the harvest schedule at times seems a bit overwhelming with the volume of goodies we haul out.  Many of the crops need to be visited daily.  Zucchini and cucumbers can quickly get away from us if we don’t  peek in every day.  The beans too must be checked if the weather is warm as nobody wants to eat fat pencils.  Our big project this week was the 1000’s of onions and shallots all came out of the garden.

Sweet onion harvest begins.

The 3 varieties of  shallots are beautiful.  Scott quickly hung them to cure right out of the garden and they should be in the shares in the weeks to come.  The storage onion crop is boutiful and hanging up to dry too. An end of season treat.  Our sweet onion crop will appear in the shares the next few weeks.  These are stored in the cooler.  Maeve was the onion harvest queen and plugged along right next to me singing Peter, Paul and Mary songs to the very end.

Maeve harvesting storage onions.

Onion Harvest Queen!

Onion Queen’s Crown….

A long day of harvest but we were determined to get the whole job completed in one day….We worked until dark but had a lot of fun along the way…..

Almost done and happy about it.

Dark! And near the end.

The bee’s were also visited this week and the honey is out of the hives.  We will do our best to spin it out this week and get it in the shares next week.  A favorite treat of ours to add to our CSA shares.

Scott heading down to visit the bees.

A bumper crop of summer melon is in our future. The patch looks wonderful and we picked a tiny one yesterday.  We are hopeful the melon season starts next week.  The 3rd rotation of beans are about ready and carrots will come out of the ground this coming week too.  Another harvest heavy week for us and an amazing share to look forward to.

WHAT IS IN YOUR SHARE

A whopping 553 pounds of vegetables out the door today.  Enjoy dinner tonight.

SNACK PACK

Lettuce-A crunchy head of summer lettuce named Tropicana.

Arugula-A spicy treat!  Add to salads or a delicious topping to pizza.  We love to make a pesto with it and enjoy with pasta.

Celery-a favorite garden crop of mine.  Not at all like grocery store celery. Darker green in color and denser stalks.  Full of flavor and wonderful for soups and stir fry dishes.

Cherry Tomatoes-The colorful assortment.

Slice/Paste Tomatoes-A few for everyone.

Zucchini-An assortment of the summer staple.

Cucumber mini snackers-We are thrilled with the little treat and hope you are too.

Long Skinny European Slicing Cucumber-1 in each share.

Sweet Onion-Store in the refrigerator.

Beans-A bi-color mix this week.

Corn!-Yeah!! The start of the season with more to come.  As in years past we do not grow the corn here. Our  “city garden” does not have enough space to grow the volume of corn needed.   It is conventionally grown corn grown by Scott’s Uncle for us at his farm in Reedsburg. When we poled past members and asked if they wanted conventional corn in their shares grown by family off site “yes” was the overwhelming reply.  We have done it this way for 4 years now and it works for us.   Enjoy!

Full Share

Lettuce-a crunchy head of summer lettuce named Tropicana.

Arugula-A spicy treat!  Add to salads or a delicious topping to pizza.  We love to make a pesto with it and enjoy with pasta.

Celery-A favorite garden crop of mine.  Not at all like grocery store celery. Darker green in color and denser stalks.  Full of flavor and wonderful for soups and stir fry dishes.

Cherry Tomatoes-The colorful assortment.

Slice/Paste Tomatoes-A few for everyone.

Zucchini-An assortment of the summer staple.

Cucumber mini snackers-We are thrilled with the little treat and hope you are too.

Long Skinny European Slicing Cucumber-1-2 in each share.

Sweet Onion-Store in the refrigerator.  A few in each share.

Beans-A bi-color mix this week.

Corn!-Yeah!! The start of the season with more to come.  As in years past we do not grow the corn here. Our 1+ acre “city garden” does not have enough space gto grow the volume of corn needed.   It is conventionally grown corn grown by Scott’s Uncle for us at his farm in Reedsburg. When we poled past members and asked if they wanted conventional corn in their shares grown by family off site “yes” was the overwhelming reply.  We have done it this way for 4 years now and it works for us.   Enjoy!

Pickle Packs-All needed to make a fantastic batch of refrigerator pickles. Pickling cucumbers, onions, dill and assorted peppers.

Bell/Ancho Peppers-A huge pepper harvest this week.  Sweet and crunchy.

Broccoli-The summer broccoli is coming on and a pound for all.

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK-carrots, corn, cabbage, kale, spinach???, tomato sauce mix (basil, oregano, parsley, onion, paste tomatoes), melons, honey +more……..