Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink,
taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them
be your only diet drink and botanical medicines. In August live on
berries, not dried meats and pemmican, as if you were on shipboard
making your way through a waste ocean, or in a northern desert. Be blown
on by all the winds. Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of
Nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. Miasma and
infection are from within, not without.
Henry David Thoreau, Aug. 23, 1853
Leaving the Dutchess County Fair each year always feels like leaving summer behind, and there is evidence of that in this week's share. This is peak tomato week, so both sufficient heirlooms and cherry tomatoes are offered, but so too are the first fall crops I sowed just a few weeks ago in anticipation of cooling temperatures: turnips and beets. The turnips are especially tasty, and the greens are tender, too--use the whole plant! I keep it simple by chopping everything and briefly sweating them in butter, garlic, salt, and pepper. Be quick and simple with the beets as well.
I've hand selected the quarts of heirlooms; please don't pick individual tomatoes. These heirlooms have a very short shelf life and can't stand the handling. Eat them soon, sliced, with some basil, some salt. Subsist on tomato sandwiches for a day or two...or three.
In this week's share:
Cherry tomatoes
Heirloom tomatoes
Zucchini/patty pan squash/peppers
Potatoes
Chives
Beets/turnips
Apples/peaches/nectarines
Appleridge chickens should be at the stand. I've got 1 chicken pot pie left. The last of the summer lettuce is available in a nice salad mix and as heads. Bags of Asian greens and the first fall arugula are at the stand, too, along with some colorful varieties of eggplant.
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