foxlinecityfarm

What a beautiful week.  We loved the weather and love the late season crops that are maturing.  We have started the big potato harvest of the 4 remaining varieties out in the field and are thrilled with the yield and quality.  And we are more than thrilled with the new potato digger.  Hopefully next week the entire potato crop will be out of the ground.

Always fun to find these special potatoes…..

We peeked at the sweet potatoes and they are sizing up nicely.  We planted 3 varieties this season and will start digging after the 1st frost.

Maeve is helping out with the watering in the hoop house with the goal that this will someday be her full responsibility.

Maeve watering the spinach.

More late season radishes were seeded in this week.  Cold loving lettuces started in the greenhouse and we weeded……pear processing continues here with the wonderful abundance from the pear trees this year.  18 quarts of juice so far from the steam extractor and more sauce this weekend.

Steam extractor in action.

Pears ready to cook down….

A few floral orders came in too this week and fun to create beautiful bouquets for special people. We are a bit behind on our clean up goals around the garden but we sure enjoyed our days..next week I am sure things will all be shaped up and perhaps we will even start the winter squash harvest.

SUMMER SHARE #16

We love the share this week….great variety and edamame is here!  A family favorite….525 pounds of garden goodness this week. Enjoy!

SNACK PACK

Superior potatoes, head lettuce, spinach, shishito peppers, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, edamame, and purple and green beans

Head lettuce-Beautiful head lettuces this week….again! We are so glad the lettuce has been amazing this season and we are able to provide fresh lettuce every week.

WOW!

Spinach-The 2nd picking from the hoop house of our early season spinach.  It is delicious thanks to the cooler temperatures the past few weeks.  More to come!

Spinach at harvest.

Beautiful Spinach….

Edamame-A favorite here.  Shell and eat raw in salads or lightly steam or blanch in salt water and enjoy as a snack.

edamame ready to pick.

Leeks-Beautiful late summer leeks.  2nd harvest of leeks…

Superior Potatoes-The perfect potato to pair with the leeks for potato leek soup.  Superior is a dry potato perfect for baking, mash, or soup!

Picking up potatoes after the digger went through.

Cherry Tomatoes-A mixed pint in every share.

Sweet Peppers-We picked several sweet varieties and 2 in every snack pack share.

Shishito Sweet Peppers-A few more of these sweet snackers. This is the end of the shishito harvest this season.

Perfect shishitos.

Beans-I am going to call these “Grandma Lang Beans”-My grandma would make a creamy green bean soup with big thick walled green beans and these beans bring back that memory to me.  I think these are the best beans we grew this season and a BIG! change for us.  I usually prefer thinner filet type beans and we tried these for a little something new.  Delicious and LOVE! them.

FULL SHARE

head lettuce, daikon radish, edamame, leeks, potatoes, roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers, shishito peppers, green and purple beans

Head lettuce-Perfect lettuce this week,  HUGE! sweet and delicious.

Beautiful late summer lettuce at harvest.

Daikon Radish-2 in each share.  Great diced up in salads to add a snap to fresh salads.  This is the start of our larger outside radish harvests.

Daikon at harvest and up to the wash tubs for scrubbing.

Edamame-Edible soybean. Shell and eat… Fresh is delicious, lightly steamed or blanched and salted is a great snack.

Taste test in the field at harvest.

Leeks-Our second variety of 5.  Perfectly paired with the potato variety this week.

Loading the leek harvest on a pallet in the field.

Superior Potatoes-A dry flaky potato.  Mashed, baked or soup.  Just perfect.

More potato LOVE!

Roma Tomatoes-A few firm beauties.  This may be the end of our larger tomatoes for the season.

Cherry Tomato Mix-A pint in every Full Share.

Sweet Peppers-3 assorted beauties in every share.

This week’s pepper pick…

Shishito Sweet Peppers-The last of the shishitos for the season.

Green and Purple beans-Big thick walled beans, a big bag to enjoy..and a big change for us and we LOVE! them.

Purple beans at harvest.

Broccoli-A big bag of those delicious side shoots that continue to produce.

BEST GUESS FOR NEXT WEEK.-butterhead lettuce, cabbage, beans, squash?, cherry tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, carrots? and more…..