In your bag
Spinach
Lettuce (a red and a green summer crisp variety)
Scallions, Garlic scapes*
Chinese Cabbage, Beets, Broccoli
Zucchini and/or Summer Squash
Sugar Snap peas, Cilantro or Basil
*Garlic scapes are the seed stalk of garlic plant. They are a tasty treat and something we have come to look forward to. Cut them in one inch pieces, sauté in olive oil until tender. They can be added to salads, stir-fries, anything where you’d like a mild garlic flavor.

Coming Soon
This week is the last of the spinach until fall and the last of the sugar snap peas and garlic scapes as well. Looks like we’ll have some green cabbage next week and I think fennel will be ready. Cucumbers just may be good to go and hopefully some more broccoli, and of course the summer squash and zucchini will continue until you have tried every recipe you can imagine and then some! Maybe, just maybe, we’ll have some tasty homegrown carrots.

Live Earth Wisconsin World Music Festival
Saturday, July 7th in Luck Wisconsin
Buckwheat Zydeco, Devon Evans (long time percussionist with Bob Marley and the Wailers), Natty Nation, Bedlam and other regional and local talent with be part of this event at Anathoth Community Farm in Luck, Wisconsin. The event celebrates the 20th anniversary of Anathoth Farm and is being held in conjunction with other big concerts around the world on July 7th – a Global Day of Global Warning about Global Warming. Free camping is available Friday-Sunday. You can find out more about Anathoth Farm and this event by calling 715-472-4487 or go to www.anathothcommunityfarm.org.

Farm News
Unfortunately last week’s storms all snuck around us leaving us with no rain and some pretty dry fields. We’ve been making rain (irrigating) as much as possible. It’s not nearly as much fun as sitting back and enjoying an all day rain – nor does it seem as satisfying to the plants - but, it does keep things growing.

In the field the potatoes plants are looking beautiful. Tucked between fields of winter rye, they are big, lush and in full bloom. We don’t have too many potato beetles and we wonder if the rye is having some influence. If we’re able to get enough water on them, it just may be a good crop.

The last few years we have had arrangements with friends and grown potatoes, tomatoes and peppers on their land. We did this as we brought more land here into production and got our crop rotations in place. This year we are pleased to have everything growing here. It is a bit of a juggle to have things here and there and of course, there’s the “out of sight, out of mind factor.” In many ways, it’s just easier to have it all right here in our faces, screaming for attention.

And yes, a garden does scream. Last week we worked hard, got through cultivating many things and you know, this week, there’s another set of things hollering for us. The trick is, as with so many things, to just put one foot in front of the other, getting one task done at a time, knowing that eventually it will all get done – or at least most of it and most times, “most of it” is enough.

Next Week’s Harvesters
Tuesday, July 3rd – Dayna Anderson, Tom Wells, Kari Hansen, Mark & Pam Werley
Saturday, July 7th – Flo Entzel, Deanna & Brett Lillemoe, Jeanette Boerner & Emmett Donnelly, Claudia Egelhoff