Summer CSA Week 10

10 new chicks!!!  They are very cute; if you want to see them, take the long walk back through the woods to the chicken coop.  You'll be eating their eggs someday!

Lots of lasts and firsts this week: last of the cucumbers for the year, last of the beans for a bit (Romanos only this week--haha! you have no choice!), last of the summer squash perhaps (new crop coming, should eventually bear fruit), last of the lettuce heads for a while (these have some summer bitterness to them, so pair the lettuce with the sweeter tomatoes or cukes); first of the tomatoes, first of this crop of beets, first potatoes should be coming soon...

I've opened up the autumn CSA to outsiders...let me know quickly if you want to join!

In this week's share:

Head of lettuce
Microgreens or pea shoots or chard
Romano beans: roasted garlic Romano beans!!!!!!!
cucumber
squash
onions/garlic
peaches or plums or apples (jersey mac or ginger gold this week)
beets: roasted beets and sauteed beet greens recipe
bag of tomatoes and 1 pepper (tomatoes get manhandled on CSA day, leaving lots of  squishy tomatoes for the late arriving crowd, so grab 1 bag which will contain a very ripe beefsteak, an heir loom of varying ripeness (place ones that need to ripen on your counter or in a paper bag for further ripening), a handful of assorted cherry tomatoes, and a pepper.

At the stand:  whole grain tortillas!!!!!!!!!!!!! from the Fingerlakes.  Freshly harvested grains from the Fingerlakes get turned DAILY into fresh tortillas.  Fantastic.  I brought packages of 6" tortillas in for a trial.  $3 a bag!  Can't go wrong.

Apple butter and strawberry jam from Red Jacket Orchards.

Butter, dairy, ginger carrots, kim chee, eggs...

Eat well!!!