Week 6 of 2011 Season

Expected Harvest

beans – french and maybe some royal burgundy beans, (a purple-podded variety)
cabbage – red or green
carrots
cucumbers – lemon, pickling (please see below) and slicing
eggplant – both Italian and Oriental varieties
lettuce mix
onions – fresh, sweet, white onions
peppers –  green and purple bell
potatoes – dark red norland (a red-skinned, white-fleshed variety)
radishes – french breakfast
scallions (A great dish to make with these are scallion pancakes.  I was introduce to them when Colleen, one of our apprentices made them for dinner.  Check out this website for a recipe)
summer squash & zucchini
swiss chard (see below for some recipes)

Bonus Items:
basil
cilantro
parsley, flat leaf

 

Pickling Size Share

We are harvesting some nice pickling cucumbers right now, and we would like to offer you the opportunity to receive a quantity that will enable you to make a batch of pickles.  A unit of pickling cucumbers will be five pounds.  We should have them during the next few weeks, and we will have enough for about 7 members to take 5 pounds each this week.  It will be first come, first serve, and to spread the bounty, we may end up limiting people to taking this quantity only once this season.  (I suppose this may change depending on how many people are interested in pickling.)  We don’t know how many of you are interested in pickling, but we thought we’d make the opportunity available to you.  Feel free to ask us for recipes or suggestions if you need any help.