In your bag
Lettuce (some adolescent romaine – a new style of harvesting lettuce mid-summer – what do you think?), Carrots, French Filet Beans
Scallions, Cucumbers, New Potatoes,
Fresh onions, Fresh garlic, Kohlrabi
Zucchini /Summer Squash, Eggplant,
Basil (enough for some pesto!)

This Week's Recipes
Pesto
Roasted Vegetable Salad

Coming Soon
It looks like we’ll start the peppers next week. We may also have another round of beets and some endive. Hopefully the next batch of beans will begin just as this one ends. We’re starting to see ripe tomatoes in the hoophouses!

Fall Work Day/ Harvest Dinner
The details on both these events will come later but I wanted to get the dates out there so you could put them on your calendar:

Fall Work Day – Sunday, September 23rd
Harvest Dinner – Saturday, November 3rd

The Fall Work Day will be at the farm and typically includes potato and squash harvest, vegetable soup made over the fire and pressing apples into cider. The Harvest Dinner will be at St. Frances Cabrini Church in Minneapolis celebrating the season. We’ll keep you posted.

Farm News
It’s been garlic week at the farm. We’ve been doing a little bit everyday and it looks like we’ll finish up tomorrow – if Tuesday’s crew is willing to dig the last two rows. The cool weather has made for pleasant work conditions though it has slowed down the cucumbers and zucchini. I suspect they’ll pick-up with the warmer weather and the rain we’ve gotten. What a wonderful thing – this rain. Every few days we’ve been getting a ½” or so of rain. Besides making sure some newly seeded carrots are kept moist, we really haven’t had to irrigate for a couple of weeks.

It’s an interesting time in the gardens. Some areas are about to be put to rest for the season. The early greens section will be done after next week and the garlic section (with an early bed of carrots) will also be ready for some cover crop. Other areas like the winter squash, pumpkins and melons will be checked upon, but won’t really need much attention until it’s time to harvest. Then there are sections where things are just getting started. We’re just planting some final rounds of beans, carrots and herbs. The hay rack is once again full with plants that will be transplanted shortly – fall broccoli, chard and beets. We’ll start some bok choy, and kohlrabi and lettuce this week to keep those fall bags diverse. It really is an intricate dance with some experimentation and luck thrown in as we try to keep a wide variety of vegetables coming all season long.

Next Week’s Harvesters
Tuesday, July 24 – Kristi & Tim Anderson, Kathie Frank, Rae Frank, Mary Yee, Susan Hoch
Saturday, July 28 – Robin Preble & Dan Hedlund, Todd & Jean Seabury-Kolod, Adam Nelson, Michael Walsh, Rondi Atkin, Athena Adkins