Veggie Share:
Tomatoes
Sungold OR cherry tomatoes
Purple, white, or green peppers
Hot peppers
Basil
Sweet corn
Eggplant
Cilantro
Fruit share: Garden of Eve-grown organic watermelons, or cantaloupe, or sunjewel melons, and peaches
Flower share: sunflowers, celosia, cleome, etc.
Egg share: ½ dozen pastured eggs
FARM NEWS:
Reminder
– our summer CSA Farm Tour is this coming Sunday, August 12, 11am-1 pm.
The tour is free, and you are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch or
enjoy our on-farm lunch buffet for $12 per person. Hope to see some of
you then! It’s not necessary for people to pre-register, however if your
site is bringing a group, we need to know how many you estimate will
want lunch.
Tomatoes
are here! Also wanted to share some information about organic sweet
corn. Organic sweet corn is hard to grow, and as we get later and later
into the summer the corn earworms pick up steam and get into a larger
percentage of the ears. That is just a fact of life of organic
production, as contrasted with conventional farmers who are spraying
highly toxic chemicals on their corn every three days or so. We have
heard stories of members not taking our organic corn at the CSA
distributions because they are afraid of a few small worms – this makes
us sad. We work very hard to bring you super sweet corn for you to
enjoy, it is a highlight of our season and we hope it is a highlight of
yours. We wish we could cull through every ear at the farm, but this
would mean that we wouldn’t have time to harvest all the crops that we
want to send you in your share! If you get corn with a worm or other
imperfection, just snap off any affected tips, the rest of the ear is
not affected.
Please
know we don’t ever intend for you to receive anything damaged
obviously, we spend hundreds of man-hours each week going through the
produce, culling, and packaging it so it arrives at your CSA in good
shape. However, sometimes our best efforts are thwarted. If you get a
container of cherry tomatoes with one smushy one in it, same with fruit
etc, just wash it out at home and discard anything broken, the good ones
will still be fine.
Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht
Garden of Eve Organic Farm
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